Read the following summary of the supreme court majority opinion in the tinker v. des moines case: two students wore black armbands to school to protest the vietnam war. the school district suspended the students. the supreme court determined that wearing the armbands is an expression of free speech, protected by the first amendment, and it was not disruptive in the school setting. in addition, the school had allowed other students to wear controversial symbols without suspension. if a supreme court justice were to disagree with the majority opinion, which issue would be most important in forming the dissent? a. the district feared, but could not prove, that the armbands caused disruption. b. the two students in question were under the age of 18. c. none of the other students were bothered by the armbands. d. there is precedent for schools limiting student expression.

The right answer is "D.There is precedent for schools limiting student expression."

In 1965, when Mary Beth Tinker was 13 years old, she wore a black armband to her junior high school to protest the Vietnam War. The school promptly suspended her, but her protest eventually led to a landmark Supreme Court case. In their verdict, the court vindicated Tinker by saying students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

If there were a dissent (which is the act of disagreeing with an official policy, with an instituted power or with a collective decision), in this case the most important question would be that there is a precedent for schools limiting the expression of the student.

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)

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what is the first step in analyzing or preparing a summary for a piece of literature?

c) describe the setting!

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