He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren’t really very good—no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sash-weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. this excerpt best illustrates kurt vonnegut’s message that (a) everyone in a society should have equal talent and beauty. (b) advances in technology should be closely monitored. (c) television viewing limits individual thought and creativity. (d) absolute equality prevents personal freedoms of expression.

(d) absolute equality prevents personal freedoms of expression.

Explanation:

This excerpt shows the portrayal of how the ballet performers were incapacitated to guarantee that none of them was superior to the others. They needed to wear scarf loads and packs of birdshot and furthermore covers, along these lines, unmistakably everybody was equivalent. This setting best shows Kurt Vonnegut's message that supreme balance anticipates individual flexibilities of articulation.

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)

the answer is actually c   i just got done with the test.