Excerpt from conserving energy and preserving the environment bureau of transportation statistics: us d. o.t. 2 our communities, the economy and much of our lives are organized around our ability to travel easily and efficiently from home to work or school, to shop or play, to receive medical care or just for the sheer pleasure of traveling. (1) this freedom has certain costs that accompany its many benefits. (2) vehicles, public and private, have to be purchased and operated; (3)roads must be built and maintained; laws must be enforced so many people can travel at the same time; and (4) hundreds of thousands of accidents inevitably occur. which sentence would best begin paragraph 2? a) americans value freedom. b) americans value their mobility. c) americans are the victims of progress. d) americans are able to afford large vehicles.

B) Americans value their mobility.

Explanation:

Mobility and its cost is the main concepts being talked about throughout the paragraph. The last part of the paragraph talks about the costs, we have to pay to afford this freedom of mobility. More over when we value something, we usually have to pay some cost. So starting the paragraph with "Americans value their mobility.", will be good start to let the readers know what is about to come in next lines.

A) Americans value freedom, will be very misleading, because it is freedom of mobility, not freedom in its conventional sense, which the paragraph/author is talking about.

C) Americans are the victims of progress will also be a bad start because, reader will infer that next few lines will try to prove that progress is bad for Americans.

D) Americans are able to afford large vehicles, would also be a misleading start because this does not signify the importance and cost of mobility.

first of paragraph? and second of statment?

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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)