December 21st was the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. That's the day when Earth's north pole was pointed completely away from the Sun. If you lived north of the Arctic Circle, like Santa Claus, you would have experienced 24 hours of darkness. It was the day the Sun never set.
The reason we have solstices, and seasons, is because Earth is tilted on its axis about 23.5 degrees. This causes each hemisphere to receive different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. After June 21, the sun's direct rays will again begin to shift southward from the Tropic of Cancer toward Earth's equator.
Churchill uses rhetoric to advance his purpose by doing what's outlined in letter D: Churchill uses a metaphor that compares the newly formed United Nations to a temple, thereby strengthening his argument that the UN's mission to secure peace and maintain freedom is a moral and ethical one that must be supported.
Churchill uses a metaphor, since he doesn't make direct comparisons. He says: "We must make sure...that <em>it is a true temple of peace</em> in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up..." He doesn't say: "that it is <em>like</em> a true temple of peace" Had he put it that way it would have been a <em>direct</em> comparison, and not a metaphor.
Churchill strengthens his argument that the UN's mission to secure peace and maintain freedom is a moral and ethical one that must be supported by using the metaphor above, and he makes it even stronger by using and contrasting different, opposing metaphors in addition to the one commented on in the paragraph above: "that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in the Tower of Babel."
Answer:
C.all of the significant facts about the story
(in)correct, in meaning not in (latin or greek)
