Which is the topic sentence of the following paragraph? there are four people in my family. the family consists of my father, my mother, my younger sister and me. my sister is younger than me by two years. we go to school together and return together by the school bus. i am studying in class ninth and she is the student of class seventh. on return from the school, we play together. i have a pet dog. my father is working as a janitor. my mother is a housewife and looks after the household. she remains busy throughout the day. she me and my sister in completing our homework. pretty soon we will be adding another member because my mom is pregnant.

the topic sentence is "There are four people in my family." Because she explains each member of the family and what they do and who they are to her.

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)