Sections from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad:

1) Timeline showing different diseases over the past century

2) Newspaper articles about the Spanish flu and AIDS

3) The Disease Hunter’s Toolbox – tools disease fighters use

4) Fear of Food? – the dangers of E. coli

5) HIV/AIDS in Africa and around the world

What conclusion can be drawn by synthesizing these different sections of text?

A) The problems of disease have been solved through the hard work of disease hunters.
B)Disease is a problem that cannot be solved unless major steps are taken all over the world.
C)While people are studying diseases all the time, more work still needs to be done.

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)

consonance, it has the repetition of the consonants in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds.

at hatfield elementary school, there are 504 students in 7 classes. each class has the same number of students. what is a good estimate of the number of students in each class?