The main themes were freedom, peace, God's role in our lives and service to others or personal accountability. Given during the Cold War, JFK's speech stressed how important strong foreign policy was while simultaneously highlighting peace and global alliance.
The first author, Julia, describes the facts as anecdotes of her family, while the other author, Mark, reports the events from an unknown source. Both authors write about the culling of Haitians in lands they are clearly not welcome in. Moreover, while Julia states the reason behind the killing of Haitians - having learned from her family its due to the hate the ruler of the land holds against them -, Mark describes in detail the victim identification methods of these people - being the verification of their pronunciation.