Answer:
viewpoint
Explanation: In "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", author Maya Angelou’s purpose is to tell about her childhood, while her viewpoint shows how she thinks and feels about her childhood.
The word "precursor" means "preceding requirement". This means that before a student is able to take courses in Calculus, it is required that the passed all the requirements for his Algebra. Calculus is a course which involves the study on derivatives and integrals.
"A Day in the Country" narrates the story of Terenty. A homeless middle-aged man who earns a living by being a cobbler. He encounters Fyokla, a six-year-old beggar girl who asks him for help in aiding her cousin Danilka in getting her hand out of a hole in a tree.
Terenty decides to help the children, as they reminded him of himself when he was at a young age. He probably thought that aid would have come handy during that time an this is why he engages in generous efforts to help homeless children.
Answer:
The chosen speech was "Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort."
Explanation:
The chosen speech was "Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort," due to the historical and technological importance that this speech has for the country.
In this speech, President John F. Kennedy reinforces the importance of Americans in supporting the United States' space program program and shows the government's ambition to do an unprecedented and extremely daring act: to make man step on the moon.
We know that this event was extremely important for our history, showing how the human being is capable of great achievements through an intense study. In addition, it showed how scientific advancement in a country depends directly on the support of the population and government investment, that is, the speech shows how the government, citizens and researchers must be united in the same objective, so that the country can achieve objectives increasingly daring.