Which sentence best demonstrates the language required of an argumentative speech?
college entrance exams are super important to colleges, and every student must work hard to get a decent score.
every high school in the county must provide its students with thorough information about college entrance exams.
high school guidance counselors are a good source of information about college entrance requirements.
students often take preparatory classes to up their scores on college entrance exams.

The sentence that best demonstrates the language required for an argumentative speech is the following one: Every high school in the county must provide its students with thorough information about college entrance exams.  This is the case because the language used is formal: the tone, the words and the ways the words are put together are the elements that make up this formal style. As we are talking about an argumentative speech, the word choices should be compatible with this writing style. For instance, the sentence contains "provide" instead of "give", an adjective such as "thorough" and "entrance" instead of "admission".

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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