Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." These [monetary investments in education] are the foundations from which towers of human achievement can soar.
Which excerpt from "Keynote Address" is an appeal to timeliness?
Which best describes the purpose of the rhetorical questions Kennedy asks in "Among Free Men"?
How does Kennedy gain authority by quoting Abraham Lincoln at the end of "Among Free Men"?
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Unlike those of my ancestry, the Negro’s unemployment rate is triple the national average. The mortality rate of his children is twice that of white children. He often pays more for his miserable tenement than comparable space will cost in the white suburbs. He is likely to pay more for his groceries, more for his furniture, more for his liquor, and more for his credit. And my fellow Americans, today many thousands of black Americans return from Vietnam with medals of valor. Some of them have been crippled in the service of their country. But too often they return to economic and social circumstances that are barely, if at all, improved over those they left. Is it any wonder that the Negro questions whether his place in our country’s history books will be any less forgotten than were the contributions of his ancestors? Is it any wonder that the Negroes find it hard to wait another 100 years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society?
In which excerpt from "Keynote Address" does Inouye create an appeal to authority?
Read the first paragraph of "Among Free Men." This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.
Read the excerpt from "Among Free Men." Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Let us plant trees and grow new opportunity.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Why, when our maturing society welcomes and appreciates art as never before, are poets and painters so preponderantly hostile?
Which excerpt from "Keynote Address" includes an example of alliteration?
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address."I believe the real reason we are here is that there is a word called "commitment,” because we are committed to the future of our country and all our people, and because for that future, hope and faith are more needed now than pride in our party’s past.
Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Now let us not deceive ourselves about the consequences of such abdication [of the responsibilities of citizenship]. It is anarchy. It is a state in which each individual demands instant compliance with his own desires. And from there, it is but a short step to the assumption by each individual of the right to decide which of his neighbors shall live and which shall not.
Read the last paragraph of "Among Free Men.""Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs."
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