Mallory wrote an informative text about urban gardening. Here is an excerpt from her text: Urban gardening gives people an opportunity to supplement their diets with locally grown produce. Balconies, abandoned lots, and rooftops can be transformed into miniature farms, reducing environmental pressures that come from growing, harvesting, and transporting food produced by large agricultural companies, or agribusiness.

What does the word “agribusiness” represent in this text?

A.
It is a detail added to spark interest in the topic.
B.
It comes from a quotation used to support the topic.
C.
It is a domain-specific term related to the topic of food production.
D.
It is a transition that connects the ideas of urban gardening and modern agriculture.

D. It is a transition that connects the ideas of urban gardening and modern agriculture

Explanation:

In the text it says reducing environmental pressures that come from growing, harvesting, and transporting food. Agribusiness (also called bio-business or bio-enterprise) refers to the enterprises, the industry, the system, and the field of study of the interrelated and interdependent value chains in agriculture and bioeconomy. The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit while sustainably satisfying the needs of consumers for products related to natural resources such as biotechnology, farms, food, forestry, fisheries, fuel, and fiber — usually with the exclusion of non-renewable resources such as mining. So I believe D would make the most sense.

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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