American jazz legend Duke Ellington said, "A problem is a chance for you to do your best." Explain the meaning of this statement and write about how a difficult situation might bring out the best in a person. Use specific details and examples in your response

Answer and Explanation:

The phrase said by Duke Ellington means that problems are desperate situations, which cause people to explore what they have inside themselves to get rid of them, that is, it is in the difficulties that people discover what is good, their strengths and talents.

The proof of this, can be seen in different moments of our society, because we can see that it is in moments of economic problems that people discover that they can be entrepreneurs, it is in moments of political and social contradictions that people discover that they are artists, it is in times of health problems that people discover are resilient and so on. From this form, we understand that despair and difficulty, leads to discovery and discovery.

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)