Read the excerpt from president roosevelt's "four freedoms" speech: during sixteen long months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. the assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small. therefore as your president, performing my constitutional duty to 'give to the congress information of the state of the union,' i find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders. what is the theme of this excerpt?
a. fear of communism
b. an argument for international cooperation
c. a threat to american security
d. gratitude to live in a democracy

C. A threat to American security

Explanation:

IN this excerpt Roosevelt is speaking about the threat that the war being fought in Europe and Asia represented to the soveraignity and the peace in the United States of America, with this speech Roosevelt wanted to encourage the congress and the house to take actions and be involved in the war, and to alert the general public of the menace that it represented.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."