Rewrite the sentences so that they are properly punctuated according to the rules for hyphen usage
1. as mr. john oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of poker flat on the morning of the twenty third of november, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night

As Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the twenty-third of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night. (Bret Harte, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat")

Next, he gathered dry grasses and tiny twigs from the high-water flotsam. (Jack London, "To Build a Fire")

For a week last September, migrating red-winged blackbirds were feeding heavily down by the creek at the back of the house. (Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)  

They lived in a forlorn-looking house that stood alone, and had an air of starvation. (Washington Irving, "The Devil and Tom Walker")

[She] had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of those absurd and extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of twenty-one sometimes inspires in a plain, angular, spectacled woman of thirty. (Willa Cather, "A Wagner Matinee")

Explanation:

Numbers from 21 and 99 are hyphenated.

“High-water flotsam” is an example of a hyphenated compound modifier.

“Red-winged blackbirds” is an example of a hyphenated compound modifier.

“Forlorn-looking house” is an example of a hyphenated compound modifier.

Numbers between 21 and 99 are hyphenated.

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)