Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. The grim reality is that plague in the capital is as common as the stench of the cesspits and almost as unavoidable. You cannot predict where it will strike: People living next door to infected houses are left unaffected. Some people are not touched even when others in their own house have it. Which sentence best summarizes the excerpt? A. The plague was unavoidable, and unpredictable in regards to whom it would affect. B. The plague was associated with filthy cesspits. C. It was a dirty disease with a foul odor. D. People in diseased homes should certainly have left immediately to avoid infection. E. The capital was the center of all medical care, and Elizabethans came for treatment.

A. The plague was unavoidable, and unpredictable in regards to whom it would affect.

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from "The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England," the plague is not able to be avoided or prevented. The reason is that it is so widespread in London that it is inevitable and it can affect anyone. For instance, some houses can be infected while the houses next door are not, and some people do not catch the plague even when sharing the house with infected people.

The plague was unavoidable, and unpredictable in regards to whom it would affect.

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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