“For Brandon Teena” By Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

Were you buried in your favorite slacks,
black cowboy shirt, and cowboy hat?
That’s what the papers said (at first)
Or were you laid to rest in a women’s
flowered print, a “ladies blouse”
as your relatives insisted that
The Lincoln Journal print
In their “correction” on the “facts”
of how you dressed --- alive and dead?

Are any of us what our families pretend?
Our sex lives and the nature of our deaths
reclaimed, revisited, unread
unspeakable what we do in bed
And whom we love and how we dress.
Encountering eternity in our favorite slacks,
cowboy shirts, and vests, and hats.
Confronting eternity undisguised.
Dressed to kill. To die for. Unrevised

1) Based on the poem, what inferences can we make about Brandon Teena’s family? Use details from the text to support your answer.

2)Write a few sentences explaining your understanding or interpretation of these lines:
Confronting eternity undisguised.
Dressed to kill. To die for. Unrevised

explanation

old disney was more kid oriented as appose to new disney it's more teen oriented.i guess what i'm trying to say is new disney is way more mature and out there then old disney. for instance all you see in new disney is bf/gf drama and old disney it was nothing like that. kids are growing up and as coorpations like disney, nickolden etc they tend to follow what kids follow so they can have more views . therefore   they have inferred   that now days kids want to have relationships and stuff so that's what disney gives them.

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: more info pls

explanation:

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.