Retype these sentences, making them smoother by changing the parts that are in parentheses when i was, (oh, around) eight years old, i thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. my parents agreed to purchase a piano. they told me that i would be required to practice one hour a day, (due to the fact that) piano lessons were expensive. at first, i practiced piano for two hours each day, (with the result that) i progressed very rapidly. every day for two years i raced home (when) school (was done) and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm. then one day, something happened. i decided i liked baseball better than the piano. though i can play the piano rather well (at the present time) , i do not practice as long nor as diligently as i once did.

When I was about eight years old, I thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. My parents agreed to purchase a piano.

The told me that i would be required to practice one hour a day because piano lessons were expensive. At first, I pracitced piano for two hours a day, therefore I progressed very rapidly.

Every day for two years I raced home after school and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm.

Then one day, something happened. I decided I liked baseball better than the piano. Though I can still play the piano rather well, I do not practice as long nor as diligently as I once did.

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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