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Read the passage.
Benjamin Franklin's Legacy
Benjamin Franklin was a man of vision. He was an inventor who created bifocals, a new kind of eyeglasses that people still wear to see
better. Benjamin Franklin was also concerned about public welfare. He established the United States Postal Service and the first city
hospital in America. In Philadelphia, he organized the police department, the fire department, the public library, and a university. He also
helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Today, millions of people benefit from the ideas that Benjamin Franklin
had more than two hundred years ago.
What is the role of the underlined sentence in this paragraph?
It is a statistic that serves as a supporting detail.
It is an example that serves as a supporting detail.
It is the topic sentence.
It is a summarizing sentence.
PLEASE HELP ASAP

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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)