Why does the speaker share details about race,
friendship, and names in this stanza? check all
the correct answers.
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to indicate that the students were already
segregated and isolated
to emphasize the idea that all americans
were treated as equals prior to the attack
to reveal the extent of the impact resulting
from the attack on pearl harbor
to identify the compassionate response
following the attack on pearl harbor

The answer is C: we have before us.

The phrase “we have before us” means, colloquially, “to have”, and nothing else. However, the phrase, through time feeding meaning into language, has become a formal phrase used often in speeches of a persuasive nature. One historical example is the speech given by Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the 13th of May, 1940:

“I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.”