Directions: Determine the author’s purpose then classify each of them, whether they are informative, journalistic, or literary. Write your answers to the space provided after each text.
1. Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business "Of Great Place."
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2. NASA is proposing another space project. The agency’s budget request, announced today, included a plan to send another person to the moon.
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3. Those that have the tenacity will not quit when confronted by obstacles or when failing. In a game or life, tenacity wants to win, and tenacity lives by the credo, "Failure is not an option."
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4. Three passions (simple but overwhelmingly strong) have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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5. Director Steven Spielberg launched a Germany-wide contest Sunday designed to promote tolerance through students’ intercultural interaction.
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