Claim: hybrid vehicles eliminate air pollution. which counterclaim makes a straw man fallacy? a. people who buy hybrid veicles are idiots. b. there are more practical ways to eliminate pollution. c. hybrid vehicles are usually quite expensive. d. forcing people to buy hybrid vehicles is wrong.

D. Forcing people to buy hybrid vehicles is wrong.

Explanation:

Straw man fallacy subverts the main(original) idea and acts as the counterattack to negate the basic thought. It displays no affiliation to the actual idea and presents a strong disagreement with it. It develops a counter idea to nullify the effects of the original idea. Thus, the option that best suits and justifies this claim would be the last option i.e. "Forcing people to buy hybrid vehicles is wrong" as it contributes to debating and arguing the significance of "hybrid vehicles" and hence, creates a powerful subversion to the initial idea. The other options do not seem as impactful as the last one.

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)