Feldman has also reached some of his own conclusions about honesty, based more on his experience than the data. he has come to believe that morale is a big factor—that an office is more honest when the employees like their boss and their work. he also believes that employees further up the corporate ladder cheat more than those down below. he got this idea after delivering for years to one company spread out over three floors—an executive floor on top and two lower floors with sales, service, and administrative employees. (feldman wondered if perhaps the executives cheated out of an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. what he didn’t consider is that perhaps cheating was how they got to be executives.)
which idea from the excerpt best addresses the counterclaim that people are only honest when there is a financial incentive?
a. employees who move further up the corporate ladder tend to be more dishonest.
b. employees tend to be more honest when they like their boss and their work.
c. executives might act dishonestly out of an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
d. different employees of the same business demonstrate varying levels of honesty.

B) Employees tend to be more honest when they like their boss and their work.

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 excerpt, the idea that best addresses the counterclaim that people are only honest when there is a financial incentive, is that employees tend to be more honest when they like their boss and their work (not necessarily having a financial incentive).

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)

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