Which sentence from A History of the World in 100 Objects provides the most effective evidence to support
this claim and reason?
O This bestselling woodblock print, made around 1830
by the great artist Hokusai, is one of his series of
thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, as the
Industrial Revolution began, the great manufacturing
powers, above all Britain and the United States, were
aggressively looking for new sources of raw materials
and new markets for their products.
O "So this great wave seemed, on the one hand, to be a
symbolic barrier for the protection of Japan, but at the
same time it had also suggested the potential for the
Japanese to travel abroad, for ideas to move, for
things to move back and forth."
O In the long years of relative seclusion Japan, governed by a military oligarchy, had enjoyed peace and stability

for me, balancing all your work/homework is the hardest part in high school and the exams.

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)

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)