We need a soccer team here in Sheffield. True, we tried it once with the Sheffield Sharkles. But soccer was new in the country back then, and naturally it didn't draw the crowds that baseball and basketball did. Now soccer is much more popular. Every high school in town has a soccer team.
Grade school soccer draws crowds of parents and nelghbors every Saturday. The people of Sheffield understand soccer now. Surely we are ready as
community to support the excitement of our own city championship team!
Which is the purpose of the speaker here?
O 1. to persuade you to join a soccer team
2. to go to the soccer games in the town
3. to support baseball and basketball more
4. to gather support for another soccer team

4: To gather support for another soccer team.

Explanation:

1 is wrong, there is not even a team yet!

2 is wrong, they are focused on the school soccer team.

3 is wrong, they used basketball and baseball as an example showing how now soccer is more popular.

I hope that this helps! :)

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)

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