Select the correct answer. In this passage, how does the author connect past English fashions and the American fashions of the time?

A.
He argues that modern American women are more fashionable than English women from earlier eras because American women don’t wear the same dresses more than once.
B.
He criticizes American fashions by negatively comparing them with older English styles.
C.
He demonstrates why the Cavaliers and the Puritans developed such different ways of dressing.
D.
He suggests that Charles I had a notable influence on American children’s clothing.

B. He criticizes American fashions by negatively comparing them with older English styles.

Explanation:

This question refers to the article "The inglish renaissance art" written by Oscar Wilde, where the author makes a specific criticism about the female fashion pattern used by American women. Wilde did not sympathize with the American clothing style and disparaged the clothing of these women by comparing them with the clothing styles used in Europe, which he finds most beautiful, elegant, classy and sophisticated, while American dresses lacked any of these characteristics.

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)