Outline for alcott essay thesis: louisa may alcott, best known for writing little women, resented being classified as an author of juvenilia because she felt it diminished her status among her contemporaries and her audience. i. topic sentence: louisa may alcott wrote more than many other authors of her time period. a. she was known to write for days at a time without a break. b. she published lots of work under fictional names. c. part of the reason alcott wrote so much was because she never felt financially secure. which sentence goes best with the topic sentence of the paragraph? note that the topic sentence focuses on how much alcott would write. a) alcott was thought to have suffered from bipolar disorder which might account for inconsistency in the pace of her writing. b) because, at age thirty, she was thought to be too old to marry, she was allowed to nurse civil war soldiers without being a temptation to them. c) although she covered the same topics, many times before anyone else, her writings did not get the same recognition as those by male contemporaries. d) alcott wrote by hand and had to learn to write with her left hand as well, since her right hand would cramp after hours of writing without stopping.

D) Alcott wrote by hand and had to learn to write with her left hand as well, since her right hand would cramp after hours of writing without stopping.

Explanation:

This is the sentence that best goes with the topic sentence of the paragraph. In the topic sentence of this paragraph, we learn that Alcott wrote more than many other authors of the same time period. Therefore, a sentence that accompanies this would have to mention the fact that Alcott wrote a lot. By telling us that Alcott wrote by hand, and that her hand would cramp after hours of writing, we are able to support the statement that Alcott wrote more than most authors.

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)