Slowly swimming towards recovery, california's sea otter numbers holding steady posted on september 22, 2014 usgs. gov "for an animal so few in number, sea otter population trends can be influenced by many local and range-wide factors," says biologist tim tinker with the usgs western ecological research center, who leads california sea otter research with co-investigators from the california department of fish and wildlife's office of spill prevention and response, the monterey bay aquarium, university of california, santa cruz, and other institutions. "we are seeing elevated mortality suggestive of food resource limitation in some parts of the range, and increasing mortality from white shark attacks in others. which word correctly conveys the tone of this section of the article? concerned hopeful confused confident

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)