<u>Explanation:</u>
Historical context: The text tells the story of one of America's most deadly storms; The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard of 1888. We can remember, that at the time there were no advanced/efficient weather forecasting tools and they were way through the winter season.
Intended audience: The text was intended for those who did not witness the events of that tragic day. For example, this was indicated with the statement <em>"In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the WPA Federal Writers’ Project...created by the US government...interviewed survivors of the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard."</em>
Author's purpose: The author only seeks to narrate events that occurred by including the accounts of those who witnessed and survived it.
Author's point of view: The opening lines of the text reveals his point of view when he said,<em> "The winter of 1887–1888 was one of the worst on record for the Midwest."</em>
Answer: Federal spending as a percentage of GDP has had a fluctuating range, growing in some years but decreasing in others.
I don't know what your options were, but here are some stated purposes of war (stated formally or informally):
-removal of Saddam Hussein from the power
-being able to check for any existing biological, chemical or nuclear weapons that Hussein might have
-introducing democracy to Iraq:
the answer is deginlty true
<span> both had energetic and capable founders/early rulers. Both had capable militaries, both had same beliefs. </span>