Answer one of the following questions:
1. how do the events of "the white umbrella" teach the narrator a lesson about shame and acceptance?
2. what role does creativity play in "the bat-poet"?
3. how does the character of squeaky change over the course of "raymond's run"?
4. discuss the influences of older family members on the protagonists and speakers in the stories and poems of this unit.
paragraph one should be the intro with a topic sentence
paragraph two should have two passages and explanations that support your topic sentence
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2. use good grammar
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4. double spaced
5. name and title on front page

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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