Here is an excerpt from her first day:
“All went well, and I got to Georgetown one evening very tired. Was kindly welcomed, slept in my narrow bed with two other roommates, and on the morrow began my new life by seeing a poor man die at dawn, and sitting all day between a boy with pneumonia and a man shot through the lungs. A strange day, but I did my best; and when I put mother’s little black shawl round the boy while he sat up panting for breath, he smiled and said, “You are real motherly, ma’am.” I felt as if I was getting on. The man only lay and stared with his big black eyes, and made me very nervous. But all were well behaved; and I sat looking at the twenty strong faces as they looked back at me,—hoping that I looked “motherly” to them; for my thirty years made me feel old, and the suffering round me made me long to comfort every one.”
Answer:
He opens his speech with a sentence referring to “a date which will live in infamy" to grab his audience's attention.
Explanation:
The anecdote about the Japanese ambassador is important for the idea of the Day of Infamy as it points out the nature of the happenings in the Pearl Harbour.
President Roosevelt refers to the diplomatic relations between Japan and the USA, as he was saying that the Japanese ambassador was communicating with the USA after the attack on Pearl Harbour was underway.
The main idea of this speech is the Japanese trait of the trust of the USA.
Answer:
Explanation:
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C) Since there was a flicker fire in the cabin, I wonder if she [the glimmering girl] was actually there?
Walt Whitman's work is continuation of and a departure from the work of transcendentalist authors of USA.
Explanation:
Walt Whitman is the most well known and most widely read poet from the USA and has been an influential figure for the development of the modern poetry.
He very much developed his poetry style and subject matter from the work of transcendental authors before him which includes Emerson, Hawthorne and Longfellow, who had a peculiar way of life and wrote a form of poetry.
The poetry that Whitman wrote continued the tradition of hermit meditations of the poet but were markedly different in their use of free verse and more free diction as well as heavy symbolism.
