Read the excerpt from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind the Wind by William Kamkwamba. No more skipping breakfast; no more dropping out of school. With a windmill, we'd finally release ourselves from the troubles of darkness and hunger. In Malawi, the wind was one of the few consistent things given to us by God, blowing in the treetops day and night. A windmill meant more than just power, it was freedom.

Standing there looking at this book, I decided I would build my own windmill. I'd never built anything like it before, but I knew if windmills existed on the cover of that book, it meant another person had built them. After looking at it that way, I felt confident I could build one, too.

Which phrase or sentence from the excerpt best provides context for the story?

Standing there looking at this book, I decided I would build my own windmill.
After looking at it this way, I felt confident I could build one, too.
No more skipping breakfast, no more dropping out of school.
. . . but I knew if windmills existed on the cover of that book, it meant another person had built them..

No more skipping breakfast, no more dropping out of school.

Explanation:

The context of a story is the background or the conditions of how the story began or is based on. It provides details about the story or shed some light on how the present events came to be

In the given excerpt from "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind the Wind", William Kamkwamba provides context for the story in his declaration "No more skipping breakfast, no more dropping out of school." This sentence tells us about his life and how he had come upon the decision to begin making the windmill. He decided that he would no longer skip school or breakfast and that became the starting point for executing his plan.

Thus, the correct answer is the third option.

explanation:

family is anyone that you care for and they equally care for you, family sticks together and everyone loves one another, whether they are blood or not anyone can be family. family composition is the makeup of a family, including the number of members, their ages, and their relationships to each other.

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)