Question

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Use the passage to answer the question.

This text is from a speech delivered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, which is often known as his “Chance for Peace” speech. What is the purpose of the use of repetition in this excerpt?

(1 point)

to stress the real cost of preparing for war to his audience

to convince his audience to demand an end to the Cold War

to show how easy it would really be to settle their hostilities

to illustrate the importance of investing in necessary infrastructure
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Answer 1

to stress the real cost of preparing for war to his audience

The repeated listing of concrete civilian goods and services sacrificed (schools, hospitals, homes, wheat) emphasizes the human and economic costs of military spending.