Which excerpt from black boy best reflects the way in which wright’s knowledge of history and culture influence his views on his father?
a) when i awakened one morning my mother told me that we were going to see a judge who would make my father support me and my brother. an hour later all three of us were sitting in a huge crowded room.
b) for some reason the entire thing struck me as being useless; i felt that if my father were going to feed me, then he would have done so regardless of what a judge said to him. and i did not want my father to feed me.
c) my father and a strange woman were sitting before a bright fire that blazed in a grate. my mother and i were standing about six feet away, as though we were afraid to approach them any closer.
d) from far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city.

From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city.

Option D.

Explanation:

The option that has been given in this option about the father of Wright which helps him to have some views on his father. From the option, we get to know that his father was a black peasant.

This shows that the life of black peasants in the city is not very comfortable and their life has been hopelessly snarled in the city. This showed about Wright's father that he had a very tough life.

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)