Dear Editor: Why are so many old buildings in our town being torn down to put up newer, more modern-looking constructions? It’s absolutely outrageous! Beautiful old homes and other buildings are constantly being demolished with little or no regard as to what’s being lost. Once this magnificent architecture is gone, there will be no way to get it back. This kind of destruction is a plague upon our town and society as a whole, but no one seems to put a stop to it.

Very truly yours,

Ronald McCoy

“This kind of destruction is a plague upon our town and society as a whole, but no one seems to put a stop to it.”

Without changing the meaning of the sentence, which word can be used to replace “plague” in the sentence?

A) plague
B) cold
C) infection
D) epidemic

no

Explanation:

Pretty much is only with breathing. If a person has asthma, the inside of these airways is irritated and swollen. Asthma can cause shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, and tightness in the chest. For some people, asthma symptoms only appear when they are exposed to something that irritates their breathing. Others have a kind of asthma that makes breathing difficult all of the time.

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)