Responding to Odysseus Achilles says that he has no intention to resume fighting. Conversely, he says, he shall depart the next morning. According to his estimation, the journey to his native land Phthia in Greece will take this many days:.

Three days.

Explanation:

Homer's epic "The Illiad" tells the story of how the "Battle of Troy" came to be and the destruction and fighting of the Greeks and the people of Troy. The main cause of the Trojan war which was because of Helen's decision to go with Paris and abandon her husband Menelaus.

The distance of the Trojan war to Phthia, the home of Achilles, is three days, as stated by him in Book IX of the epic. When the Greeks under Agamemnon decided to keep attacking troy, Achilles had already kept himself and his men away from the war. In an effort to mend their differences, Menelaus sent gifts and even his noblemen including Odysseus to try to persuade him to join them in their attack of Troy. But Achilles told the messengers that he had already decided to leave for his home of Phthia. He said that "If great Neptune vouchsafes me a fair passage, in three days I shall be in Phthia." This is the estimation of Achilles for the duration of his journey back home.

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)

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.