Read the excerpt from “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes.”

in my life, i have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles, and rain forests full of birds and butterflies, but now i wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?

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Read the excerpt from "The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes."

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles, and rain forests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?

Suzuki most likely asks this question to make her audience feel

disappointed.

ashamed.

helpless.

annoyed.

ashamed.

Explanation:

When Severn Cullis-Suzuki, head of the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), spoke in the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, she was 12 years old. She made a rhetorical question, as she knew that her audience hadn´t been bothered with environmental issues before.

Rhetorical questions are often used to persuade the public.

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the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.