Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference.

in his small idaho school, football meant everything to ernesto ("neto”) villareal, sixteen, the team’s star running back. and yet when he heard fans screaming racial insults at him and his hispanic-american teammates, he wondered how he could keep playing for fans who felt that way. the insults also bothered andy percifield, a white student leader. when neto and andy teamed up, each using his own special power, fans began to feel the heat they had never felt before.

the details of this excerpt reveal the author’s purpose by explaining why the fans acted like they did. including facts and details about the topic. encouraging the reader to believe in something. expressing opinions about a topic.

a explaining why the fans acted like they did.

b including facts and details about the topic.

c encouraging the reader to believe in something.

d expressing opinions about a topic.

b. including facts and details about the topic.

The excerpt does not reveal why the fans are screaming racial insults or why the fans begin to feel the heat. This eliminates option A as a possibility. Option C is also wrong because the excerpt does not speak to the reader and convince the reader to believe one way or another on an issue. Option D is also wrong because the author does not include his or her own opinion about the topic. Option C is correct because in this excerpt the author is simply reporting the events and the emotions of the football players.

unrelated sentences to be eliminated?

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)