“ay, yoyo, you are going to be the one to bring our name to the headlights in this country! that is a beautiful, beautiful speech i want for your father to hear it before he goes to sleep. then i will type it for you, all right? ” –“daughter of invention,” julia alvarez what can be inferred about the character who is speaking in this passage, based on her nonstandard english speech? she is not educated. she does not speak any english. she only speaks english to her daughter. english is not her first language.

English is not her first language.

Explanation: In this excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez, what we can infer about the character who is speaking in the passage, based on her nonstandard English speech is that English is not her first language. Laura, the mother of Yoyo is Dominican. She, her husband, and the girls have come to live in the US. She tries to invent things at night. Laura speaks nonstandard English because Spanish is her first language. Although she tries her idioms are all mixed up.

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)