In mandatory military service in america, what is most likely the author’s purpose for including the recollections of the vietnam veteran in paragraph 8 in counterpoint?

a)

to provide an authoritarian perspective from a leader

b)

to provide first-hand knowledge of past events from a participant

c)

to provide an example of how memory changes over time

d)

to provide information from a scholar about an historical event

Which excerpts from queen elizabeth's response to parliament's request that she marry rely on a rhetorical appeal to logos to persuade her audience that even if she produced an heir it would not guarantee england's prosperity or safety? check all that apply.

If there were no system of checks and balance,the process of government would eventually fall apart. do you agree with this opinion? why or why not?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?