Which claim does President Obama make in the speech? Few people make meaningful contributions to society.

Michael Jordan never missed a shot or lost a game.

Presidents rarely need to ask for help.

People must work hard to become good at things.

the answer is decimated

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.

because he was killed by the black arrow.