As pavement separates, weeds like mustard, shamrock, and goosegrass blow in from central park and work their way down the new cracks, which widen further. in the current world, before they get too far, city maintenance usually shows up, kills the weeds, and fills the fissures. but in the post-people world, there's no one left to continually patch new york. which sentence best states the main idea of this section of the chapter? a. weeds are uprooted by hand because herbicides are environmentally unsafe. b. three main types of weeds are known to grow in new york's central park. c. invasive weeds are kept at bay by city crews who are paid to uproot them. d. tax dollars will not always be available for maintenance crews to kill weeds.

The answer is C (apex)

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)

i would think its c but i'm not sure