Which excerpt from Silent Spring best appeals to readers' pathos?
O So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised
their houses, sank their wells, and built
their barns.
O The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where,
in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of
color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines.
O The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants
was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them.
• Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already
suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined traged
may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

the answer is the passage stating

Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already

suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined traged

may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

Explanation:

Pathos appeals to the readers emotions, using keywords such as disasters, communities, grim,tragedy,stark reality ,it sets a negative connotation that is connected by the author to the reader's future

she swerves to avoid the turtle.

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)