Driving around the parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning,
he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to company's snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up
the money and the leftovers. It was an honor-system commerce scheme, and it worked. Within a few years, Feldman
was delivering 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research
analyst. He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy.
Based on the excerpt, which statement best strengthens Feldman's claim that people are mostly honest?
Feldman solicited customers with a simple pitch.
Feldman's payment system was largely successful.
Feldman earned a good living delivering bagels.
Feldman found a new career and made himself happy.

Based on the excerpt, the statement that best strengthens the claim that people are mostly honest is:

B) Feldman's payment system was largely successful.

Explanation:

According to the excerpt, Feldman would leave bagels and a basket in different companies' snack rooms. Therefore, he himself did not stay there to ask for the money in return for the bagels. He chose to believe that people would be honest enough to take the bagel and leave the money in the basket. It turns out that this system was largely successful. People would indeed leave the money, and Feldman began to make a good income from this idea. In conclusion, the sentence that best strengthens the argument that people are honest is B) Feldman's payment system was largely successful.

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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