Read the claim and paragraph.
(1) homework has more negative effects on children and teenagers than positive effects. (2) hours of schoolwork after the school day is over intrude on students’ family lives, cause unnecessary stress, and take away from time participating in other enriching activities. (3) in addition, studies show that for children below high-school age, there is no relationship between homework and how a student performs on a test, and for high-school students, the relationship is nearly insignificant. (4) although homework might not have a major effect on test scores, some say that it teaches students other important life lessons. (5) however, no conclusive study has shown that homework improves students’ self-discipline, time-management skills, or sense of independence. (6) therefore, schools should seriously reconsider revising homework guidelines, and teachers should only assign homework when it is truly necessary.
which sentence contains a rebuttal to the counterclaim in the paragraph?
sentence 2
sentence 4
sentence 5
sentence 6

C) sentence 5.

Explanation: an argument or claim is a statement assertion that something is true. A counterclaim is a statement or an idea that refutes the claim. In the given paragraph the claim is that homework has more negative effects on children and teenagers than positive effects, the counterclaim (in sentence 4) is that some say that homework teaches students other important life lessons, and the rebuttal of the counterclaim (sentence 5) is that there are  no conclusive studies that show that homework improves students’ self-discipline, time-management skills, or sense of independence.

The sentence that contains a rebuttal to the counterclaim in the paragraph is sentence 5

Explanation:

A rebuttal is a response to a counterclaim that for obvious reasons is opposite to the original idea, here the main idea is that homework has more negative than positive effects on students, so the rebuttal to that idea is saying that even when the study's results are not conclusive homework in fact help students to develop other abilities,

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)

in macbeth, banquo, who in real life had willing in the murder of king duncan, is portrayed as a loyal subject of the king himself. many analysts believe that shakespeare had done this in order to king james, who supposedly was a direct descendant of banquo himself.

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