English
use one of the prompts below to respond to the poem:
i think…
i notice…
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how things work
by gary soto
today it's going to cost us twenty dollars
to live. five for a softball. four for a book,
a handful of ones for coffee and two sweet rolls,
bus fare, rosin for your mother's violin.
we're completing our task. the tip i left
for the waitress filters down
like rain, wetting the new roots of a child
perhaps, a belligerent cat that won't let go
of a balled sock until there's chicken to eat.
as far as i can tell, daughter, it works like this:
you buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples
from a fruit stand, and what coins
are passed on others buy pencils, glue,
tickets to a movie in which laughter
is thrown into their faces.
if we buy goldfish, someone tries on a hat.
if we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom.
a tip. a small purchase here and there,
and things just keep going. i guess.

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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)