The following answer choices contain a paragraph from a John Muir article. Read each answer choice and select the one that uses semicolons correctly.
Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried; however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.
Two years ago; when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried; however many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.
Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.
Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley; I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

Explanation:

The paragraph shown here uses semicolons correctly.

''Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.''

All of the other paragraphs do not use them correctly.

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)

her eyes water as she let her go

her mothers hand goes limp

face white and pale

lips blue and stale

she is gone

sadness fills her body

she collapses to her knees

as her mothers disease leaves the girl alone