Explain how Scrooges view of the world contrasts with the views of Cratchit and Scrooges nephew in Act 1 of a Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley.

Answer and Explanation:

Scrooge is avaricious and for that reason sees the world as a place of avarez, where people are terrible and do not deserve consideration. He believes that Christmas is an invention to take money from people like him and that nobody needs Christmas to survive, it is something superfluous and meaningless.

His nephew and Cratchit have a very different view, they believe that the world is a place of kind people who can help those in need, Christmas being the perfect time for that, to be generous, loving and to celebrate with the family.

in macbeth, banquo, who in real life had willing in the murder of king duncan, is portrayed as a loyal subject of the king himself. many analysts believe that shakespeare had done this in order to king james, who supposedly was a direct descendant of banquo himself.

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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)