Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country." What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers through the streets of New York—and in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other?

In this excerpt, the use of the word splintered has which type of connotation?

positive
negative
abstract
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negative

Explanation:

The writer of the passage uses the word splintered as a negative word, trying to say that separation of the people by nationalistic ideas is bad and has no point.

He gives an example of Jewish and Arab people, who have had long-going intolerance towards one another because of historic events and social ideas. He says they are doing services for one another – in the example of one being the cab driver to another – while living in the same multi-cultural city of New York, yet they still use hateful expressions and ideas against each other.

This hatred is what splinters them and makes the gap between them. What the author tries to prove is no point in living in the global, multicultural environment where everyone encounters each other and help each other every day, while also speaking of hate. This theoretical separation and long tradition of hate is what splits and disintegrates people. This is why the word has a negative context.

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)

answer: a

explanation: