Owners of large agricultural farms in the Southwest used to hire many extra workers to weed cotton fields. Then an amazing fact was discovered--that geese can accomplish the task better and cheaper than people. The weeds and grasses that are found in cotton fields are of the type that geese like to eat. The practice of farmers keeping large flocks of geese to weed fields is spreading rapidly. which best states the main idea of the paragraph?

Geese like weeds and grasses.
Weeds and grasses are used to fatten geese.
Cotton fields are located in the southwestern United States.
Geese replaced workers weeding cotton fields.

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)

a. beside the fence

explanation:

i would have to say "a" or "d".