Add an extra 150 words to this that can be useful but extra I believe what Jerry felt is a universal emotion that everyone wants to feel like. What he did was assert his dominance over swimming and diving, Jerry showed what he could do and felt accepted after they cleared a path for him to swim. Even though they didn’t speak the same language as Jerry doesn’t mean he could not be accepted. The boys and Jerry felt the same for each other because Jerry wanted to be with them and just like them while they just liked Jerry for his dive and swim technique. I believe its a universal emotion because I think everyone feels this one point in their lives and has a similar experience like this story. I personally experienced this, wanting to feel accepted into a group of people and it’s sad if you don’t get accepted but you don’t give up till you see there’s no hope or you get accepted in and feel that feeling of acceptance. I’m guessing that most to all kids experience this when they want to make friends or want to be part of something like a group. The character Jerry can relate to almost any kid trying to make friends or be in a friend group, it can definitely relate to me, specifically a time when I was in 1st grade and I had little to no friends and kept trying to join this group who couldn’t bare to be with me at all so eventually I just gave up. The group of boys seemed to acknowledge Jerry at first but didn’t seem to care till he began to dive and swim, then Jerry felt accepted when they made a path for him to swim. Then one of the boys swam through a cave and freaked Jerry out because he was underwater for way too long. Then the other boys jumped in and swam through the cave and freaked Jerry out even more because they were underwater for 160 seconds. I personally would be scared as well because I have no idea what’s going on since they speak a different language.

We are a collective of three people who began thinking together, almost twenty years ago, before any one of us ever touched a computer, or had logged on to the Internet.

In those dark days of disconnect, in the early years of the final decade of the last century in Delhi, we plugged into each other's nervous systems by passing a book from one hand to another, by writing in each other's notebooks. Connectedness meant conversation. A great deal of conversation. We became each other's databases and servers, leaning on each other's memories, multiplying, amplifying and anchoring the things we could imagine by sharing our dreams, our speculations and our curiosities.

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)