Read these sentences from "the final assault." at 6: 30 a. m. we crawled slowly out of the tent and stood on our little ledge. already the upper part of the mountain was bathed in tenzing gallantly waved me through and with a growing feeling of excitement i cramponed up some firm slopes to the rounded top of the south summit. it was only 9 a. it was 11: 30 a. m. my first sensation was one of relief—relief that the long grind was over; that the summit had been reached before our oxygen supplies had dropped to a critical level; and relief that in the end the mountain had been kind to us in having a pleasantly rounded cone for its summit instead of a fearsome and unapproachable why does hillary include time as a way to organize these paragraphs about reaching the summit of mt. everest?
a. to relate how quickly experienced climbers could climb the difficult peak
b. to show how long it took to complete the final climb to reach the summit
c. to express the idea that it is difficult to climb during the morning hours
d. to stress the idea that keeping track of hours is important to mountain climbers

The answer is B. to show how long it took to complete the final climb to reach the summit

Explanation:

It can't be C. because there are not details of difficulty. It can't be A because they are literally experienced climbers. Lastly it's not D because if it were really important to stress that Idea they would have used time a lot more often in the story.

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B. to show how long it took to complete the final climb to reach the summit

Explanation:

It is very important for her to communicate the hours that it took her to reach the summit that is why she expresses the time and writes it down very often, in order to put into prespective the long hours that it took her to reach the summit and the hard work it requires.

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)

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader