Read the excerpt from “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes.” parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, "everything's going to be alright," "we're doing the best we can," and "it's not the end of the world." but i don't think you can say that to us anymore. are we even on your list of priorities? suzuki most likely uses this question to make listeners believe that a. they are doing the best they can. b. they should talk to their children honestly. c. they need to rethink what is truly important. d. they need to comfort their children.

C. they need to rethink what is truly important.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes" by Severn Cullis-Suzuki, we can see the speaker talking about the importance of parents being able to comfort their children by telling them that  "Everything's going to be alright" and other things, but at the ending of the excerpt she asks "Are we even on your list of priorities?" to make listeners believe that they need to rethink what is truly important, they need to adjust their priorities.

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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)