Nocturnal Animals

Animals that are mostly active during the night are called nocturnal. These animals tend to hunt, roam, and play like animals seen in the daytime, but they wait until the sky is dark to come out. During the daytime, most nocturnal animals sleep or rest in dark caves or burrows. Various types of animals including birds, reptiles, mammals, fish, amphibians, and insects can be nocturnal. Examples of some nocturnal animals include bats, owls, beetles, coyotes, and catfish.

Nocturnal Adaptations

For animals that are mostly active during daylight, dark nighttime environments would make their hunting and traveling quite difficult. Nocturnal animals have developed adaptations to survive their life in the dark. Some have extremely good eyesight and/or hearing to locate their prey. Others use echolocation to help them travel in the dark. This adaptation allows animals to determine their location and surrounding objects by listening to echoes of sounds they make.

A) These words are written in another language.
B) The author invented these words to help readers better understand the passage.
C) The author believes readers may be unfamiliar with these words and wanted them to be noticed.
D) The reader will see these words used again as headers in another section of the text.

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)

a. it reminds protestors of the reasons they have to protest.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.