Read the passage from sugar changed the world. the muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. a plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop. on a regular farm there may be cows, pigs, and chickens; fields of grain; orchards filled with fruit—many different kinds of foods to eat or sell. by contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it. never before in human history had farms been run this way, as machines designed to satisfy just one craving of buyers who could be thousands of miles away. on a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. the mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot. which text evidence best supports the authors' claim? "a plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop." "by contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets." "since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it." "the mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot."

"By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets."

Explanation: the author's claim in this excerpt is that the idea of the plantation, was revolutionary to the world of sugar because they could do all the process from planting the sugar cane to making the sugar, all in one place, it says that never in human history had farms be run like that, they always had multiple products to work on. The phrase that better represents that claim is option B.

By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets."

Explanation:

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)