With two articles about banning straws across the world I need help with an essay that explains why straws are not sufficient when trying to get rid of all plastic in the worldMany countries are looking to implement a straw ban to reduce the amount of plastic going into oceans and landfills. Think about the information in BOTH passages. Write an informational essay in your own words explaining why a straw ban is not a sufficient means to reduce our overall plastic problem. Be sure to use information from BOTH passages in your informational essay. USA test prep

The ban on the use of plastic straws is a positive initiative, but it is not effective to reduce the pollution that plastic products promote in nature, especially in the oceans.

This is because straws, although they contribute to pollution and are used on a large scale, represent only 4% of the amount of plastic that is thrown into the sea and that harms marine life in an intense way. This means that even if the world population stopped using these straws, plastic pollution would remain the same.

However, we cannot deny that the ban on the use of plastic straws has a strong pedagogical value, because it is an interesting initiative to alert the population about the damage caused by the indiscriminate use of plastic, which may reflect in the reduction of other products that pollute from more intense way.

Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize that the ban on plastic straws, although positive, is insufficient and more effective campaigns should be established to prohibit the use of plastic-based products that are more harmful to nature.

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)