Based on the details in this excerpt, what is the purpose of this speech?
O to demonstrate
O to inform
O to entertain
O to persuade
Read the excerpt from "Opening Ceremonies of the
New York and Brooklyn Bridge" by Hon. Seth Low,
Mayor of the City of Brooklyn.
This Bridge is a landway over the water, connecting
two cities bearing to each other relations in some
respects similar. It is the function of such works to
bless "both him that gives and him that takes." The
development of the West has not belittled, but has
enlarged New York, and Brooklyn will grow by reason
of this Bridge, not at New York's expense, but to her
permanent advantage. The Brooklyn of 1900 can
hardly be guessed at from the city of to-day. The hand
of Time is a mighty hand. To those who are privileged
to live in sight of this noble structure every line of it
should be eloquent with inspiration. Courage,
enterprise, skill, faith, endurance--these are the
qualities which have made the great Bridge, and these
the qualitios which will make our city areat and our

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

How does marc antony use the rhetorical triangle in his speech

The “big dig” the “big dig” (the central artery/tunnel project) has been complex and challenging. located in boston, massachusetts, this tunnel is eight lanes wide and three-and-a-half miles long. what is most amazing about this tunnel is that it is constructed under a major highway and skyscrapers located in boston’s financial district. construction crews used “clamshell excavators” during this dig. these machines carved narrow trenches, and then a special substance was pumped into the trench to keep the dirt from caving in. finally, steel beams were lowered into the trench and concrete was pumped in. one problem that engineers faced while constructing the tunnel is the fact that the soil beneath boston is extremely loose and soggy. engineers solved this dilemma by freezing the soil and pumping very cold water into pipes beneath the city. to strengthen the soil even further, a special type of glue was injected into the ground to with the consolidation of the soil. 23 which phrase best defines the word excavator as used in the passage? a. a device used to measure underground temperatures b. a device used to level uneven surfaces c. a device used to move heavy objects d. a device used to dig holes