Highlight details that led scientists to draw a conclusion. 2000: Meanwhile, a team led by American scientist Andrea Ghez announces an extraordinary finding: some amazing force is whipping stars faster and faster around the center of the Milky Way. Each year the stars' speeds increase by about 250,000 miles (more than 400,000 kilometers) per hour! The team concludes that a supermassive black hole can explain this -- but not everyone else agrees.

—A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole,
Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano

Why did scientists conclude that a black hole is at the center of the Milky Way?

A. Stars near a black hole die.
B. A black hole makes the Earth spin.
C. A black hole produces a strong force.
D. A black hole slows stars down.

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)

i love cake

and don't hate

i know i'm fat

but what's wrong with that

i cant rap

but im sure ya know that

its just for fun

so quit hatin' son

~courtney

the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

explanation: