Verona Italy in the Middle Ages during the time of died between powerful families

The Italian vendettas, or blood-feuds, were a long-standing tradition that most cities and towns tried to break. It was a difficult task since, by Italian standards, a family's honor required that adequate vengeance be sought for a family member's injury or death. The act of revenge placed a similar burden on the newly bereaved family, and the feud was perpetuated. Unfortunately, innocent bystanders could often be killed or injured, and many laws were enacted to reduce the violence of vendettas. Funerals, usually held at night throughout the Middle Ages, were restricted to daylight hours in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The gathering of large family groups and the cover of darkness were too convenient for feuds' perpetuation. Lorenzo de Medici was himself injured, and his brother, Giuliano, was killed in an attack by a rival family in fifteenth-century Florence. The vendettas and family feuds of Italy were well-known throughout Europe. Shakespeare used two feuding families in Verona, the Montecchi and Capelo families, as the Montague and Capulet families' models of his tragic play, Romeo and Juliet.

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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)