Read the excerpt below from act 1.1 of the tragedy of julius caesar and answer the question that follows. cobbler: i am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger i recover them. which description fits best with what the cobbler means by the use of the word “recover” as a pun? a)he cures them and puts a new sole to “cover” them. b)he uses his work to him “get over” what he is upset about. c)he has old shoes himself, so he cannot anyone else. d)as a plebeian, he is not allowed to fix his own shoes.

A)He cures them and puts a new sole to “cover” them.

In this excerpt, the cobbler is describing his job, which is fixing old shoes. He explains that he is a surgeon and that he "recovers" endangered shoes. He is making a comparison between sick people and shoes that need to be fixed. Just as a surgeon might operate on sick people and help them recover health, the cobbler works on old shoes to help them become beautiful and useful again.

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)

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.