The correct answer is B. The sacrifices of fallen soldiers should be honored by survivors.
Explanation
The text is an excerpt from the Gettysburg Address speech that talks about the attitude that citizens should have to strengthen the nascent country resulting from the war. In the speech Abraham Lincoln proposes to continue building the nation together when he says "It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced". Furthermore, he points out that this would be a way of honoring the soldiers who gave their lives in the war as he expresses it by saying "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain". According to the above, the correct answer is B. The sacrifices of fallen soldiers should be honored by survivors.
The speaker of the poem longs for the sea...it is his heart, his soul, his very being. No matter how much he may want to settle down and enjoy the warm comforts of land, food, drink, and female companionship, his inner being seeks the open sea.
Dorian Gray should absolutely be read today. Its themes of morality, narcissism and guilt are more relevant than ever. Youth has never been valued more highly: our society is one in which old age is almost always portrayed in a negative light, in which many products and services are sold with the goal of delaying or desguising the signs of age. There is no natural acceptance of the cycles of life, of old age as a worthwhile stage with its own particular pleasures. The only pleasures and virtues are those of youth: beauty, energy, impetuousness are valued while wisdom and serenity are not. Dorian Gray's story is the story of a man who sought to keep his youth and beauty at the cost of his morality. It's also the story of someone who could live life with no consequences: despite his crimes, his face preserved an angelical beauty, while his portrait paid the cost of his actions. Due to ever growing inequality, the rich nowadays can emulate Dorian Gray in more than one way, which makes his story all the more relevant.
