I promise. which statement best captures the meaning of the following lines about the golden brooch in, the courage that my mother had?

I have no thing to treasure more: /yet, it is something I could spare.
a. there are many things that I treasure more then the brooch
b. i treasure the brooch, but it is not my most valued possessions.
c. courage is important, but it cannot match the value of the brooch
d. I do not value the brooch highly, so I could easily live without it.

b.I treasure the brooch, but it is not my most valued possessions.

Explanation:

The line is taken from Edna St. Vincent Millay's short elegy poem "The Courage that My Mother Had". The poem is included in the collection "Mine the Harvest"  published in 1949, one year before the death of the poetess.

The line "I have no thing to treasure more:" shows that the poetess has nothing which she treasures more than the golden brooch, to simply mean that she treasures the golden brooch more than anything else.

The second line contrasts (also signified by the use of contrast word "yet") what is described in the first part. Here she says that she could still spare the brooch, meaning, she could leave it, or let it go (if she could get her mother's courage in return). Hence option B is correct.

Option A and D are completely incorrect stating opposite of what the poetess says and means in the given lines.

Option C is incorrect because firstly there is no mention of courage in these lines, secondly because, in next lines of the poem, we come to know she values courage more than the brooch.

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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today at the bank, an old lady asked me to check her balance. so i pushed her over.