3. infer w text that you infer her purpose. hat is ilris chang's purpose for writing "building the transcontinental railroad"? cite evidence

In Building the Transcontinental, Iris Chang tries to tell the story of chinese immigrants who were escaping from the socio political situation in their country and looking for a new life in a new place.

Her purpose was to show how this immigrant community, that many Americans still consider foreign despite the Chinese presence in the United States for more than a century and a half, were a crucial part on one of the most important American developments in the history and still were not recognized for the only reason of being foreigns.

Chinese laborers had no credit after the Transcontinental Railroad was built, just white americans in the photos, and she wanted to show how unfair this was for this new group arriving in America when they “brought distinctive cultural traits to America—such as reverence for education, hard work, thriftiness, entrepreneurship, and family loyalty—which helped many achieve rapid success in their adopted country.”  

1) technical language (writen technical volcabulary)

2) ordinary langauge

3) literary language (because it's text with a rich, descriptive vocabulary)

4) scientific texts (includes texts such as medical reports, legal texts, academic journals, etc)

5) informational texts (texts that are used to convey information to readers, such as technical guides, costumer guides, textbooks)

6) poetic texts. because they are essays, short stories, poems, etc.

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)