The article, "Close Encounters of the Bear Kind," by Susan E. Quinlan is about a biologist named John Hechtel who tracks North American bears. In an essay, analyze how the author's viewpoint develops the article's central idea. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Answer and Explanation:

According to the reading of the article, we can see how the author positions a point of view in defense of the bears, showing the importance of studying them, understanding them and protecting them in detriment of the premeditated view of beast and violence that I fear from them .

The article shows that, in fact, the bear is a strong and ferocious animal, but threatened by human activities like all elements of nature. This reinforces the need for studies to combat the dangers that bears face and can protect them from extinction.

To do these researches, courageous people are needed, who risk to research the bear closely. In the text, the author uses as an example the researcher John, who to research and help the bears must infiltrate the animal's cave and hit it closely with a reassuring dart. Even in the midst of imminent danger, the researcher recognizes that promoting research that protects fauna is rewarding and, therefore, he is not afraid.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

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)