What is different about the way a newspaper article presents information versus a memoir about the same event?

Let's remember that in a memoir someone accounts the important events in his/her life. It can be about an specific theme or a certain part of life, in this case it is an event. Although we don't know which event they are talking about, we know how the information is presented.

As the memoir is personal and is written by the person that lived the event, it is going to be subjective, it will describe the things that people felt at that time as well as the problems they faced, all of this in the point of view of the author.

The newspaper article is going to be as objective as possible by just describing the events without taking anything in a personal way. Remeber it is trying to inform. The significant things are going to be determined by the importance they had in the outcome of this event. It will give a general description.

Imagine the event is a battle in Vietnam. The memoir is going to describe a soldier's point of view, it will describe if  he was injuried, how he scaped or survived as well as the loss of close friends, etc. The newspaper article would describe the battle in general, counting the casualties and emphasizing the importance of that battle for the war in general.

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)