Read this excerpt from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous cry, "Look well!" A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks – the voice of Shere Khan crying, "The cub is mine. Give him to me. What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?" Akela never even twitched his ears: all he said was, "Look well, O Wolves! What have the Free People to do with the orders of any save the Free People? Look well!" Based on the imagery in this excerpt, which conclusion can be made about Akela? A) Akela quickly loses patience with someone as cowardly as Shere Khan. B) Akela is a ferocious fighter that will fight an enemy to the death. C) Akela has trouble keeping his control over the pack of wolves. D) Akela keeps calm in stressful situations and is not easily upset or disturbed.

The correct answer is D) Akela keeps calm in stressful situations and is not easily upset or disturbed.

Explanation:

The excerpt presents a dialogue between two characters, which are Shere Khan and Akela. In this, Shere Khan tries to scare Akela by demanding him to give Shere Kan the kid. This can be seen in "The cub is mine. Give him to me", despite this threaten Akela remains completely calmed, this can be concluded because Akila does not change his position "Akela never raised his head from his paws"; "Akela never even twitched his ears" and instead he only answers to Shere Khan with a witty answer by stating the wolves or Free People do not have anything to do with outsiders of the pack in "What have the Free People to do with the orders of any save the Free People?", and therefore they should not obey Shere Kna. Thus, this excerpt shows the calmed position of Akela in stressful situations (Option D).

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)