Is that first person or third personI know I'm not an ordinary ten-year-old I meansure I do ordinary thingseat ice creambikeI play ball I have an Xbox Stuff like that makes me ordinary I guess And I feel ordinary Inside But I know ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgroundsI know ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they

Let's just structure the excerpt a bit better. I was able to find it online:

I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid. I mean,  sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike.  I play ball. I have an XBox. Stuff like that makes me  ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. Inside. But I know  ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away  screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get  stared at wherever they go.

The excerpt is in the first-person perspective.

Explanation:

A first-person narrator uses first-person pronouns such as "I" and "me" and gives us his / her own perspective on things. The reader, therefore, only receives the information known and offered by the narrator. That means everything we get to know is biased, since it comes permeated by the narrator's feelings and opinions. Notice that the excerpt we are analyzing here uses first-person pronouns. This narrator is describing him/herself. We get a glimpse of the way he/she feels - "And I feel ordinary. Inside" - and thinks.

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)

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