Which statement best describes the viewpoint the author expresses about intelligence? Firsthand intelligence is more effective than secondhand intelligence.
It was not necessary to gather firsthand intelligence from East Berlin.
Firsthand intelligence is intelligence taken from decrypted, or decoded, messages.
The US had not been able to plant a spy in East Berlin to gain intelligence.

A). Firsthand intelligence is more effective than secondhand intelligence.

Explanation:

Intelligence is demonstrated as the capacity to perceive information and apply it in the right context.

The first statement most clearly expresses the author's perspective on intelligence. The author gives more significance to 'firsthand intelligence' over 'secondhand intelligence' as he feels that the former is gained naturally and through personal experiences and therefore, more authentic and credible. While secondhand intelligence is less authoritative as it is gained through indirect experiences. Therefore, the application of secondhand intelligence is not as effective as personal and directly developed intelligence i.e. firsthand intelligence. Thus, option A is the correct answer.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

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)