According to annie murphy paul's article "the new marshmallow test: students can't resist multitasking," how many minutes did students focus on homework before their attention began to drift?

Two minutes

Explanation:

In the article "The New Marshmallow Test: Students Can't Resist Multitasking,"  we learn more about the studying habits of teenagers. The author states that:

"Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Face.book feeds. By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork."

This shows how pervasive new technology and social media is, and how it can affect the student's learning.

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)

they would have to clean it very clean