The local school district wants to plant grass on the gravel playground at tracy's school. tracy doesn't think this is a good plan, so she is writing to the school district to tell them. which introductory sentence best supports her claim?
a. games like kickball or marbles would be awfully hard for students to play on a grass-covered playground.
b. a grass field will have to be mowed all the time, and that's not good for students with hay fever and allergies.
c. planting grass on the gravel playground at bonneville school would not be in the best interests of the students.
d. one thing about planting a grass field is that students would have to stay completely off it for at least 2 years.

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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