<span>If the question is asking an overall approach to the Declaration of Independence, the first step has to be a mindset that asks "What was Jefferson saying." In doing so, the Preamble sets the rationale behind the move to independence and the "injuries and usurpations" the specifics. However, no matter what, an understanding of the historical context is imperative.
However, if the task is asking to break down each sentence in the Declaration and relate it to purpose, that would take a while here.</span>
Answer:
D. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns
Quite worriedly toward the disaster
Explanation:
Brueghel's Icarus refers to a painting made by Pieter Brueghel, which puts the spotlight on the townsmen who were around during Icarus' mythological fall from the sky since he flew too close to the sun. It depicts the indifference of the witnesses, who were busy engaging with their pursuits to bother paying attention to the fact that Icarus had just fallen. Since Auden's poem is written in honor of the painting, (D) would be the best answer if the painting instead depicted the witnesses' concern over what is happening instead of indifference.
I set my books on my desk every evening to remind me to read.
If I am correct that should be the right answer
A. Because you can picture it while the others are harder to picture.
What the excerpt is trying to convey is that, with the current generation we are so preoccupied with own self-interests. We value vanity, self and glory without considering the individuals we face as we walk, as we talk and as we engage. The passage reinstates that individuals have to get back and introspect about not their own gratifications and egotistical desires but the welfare with others, even though it is innate and inevitable that we always point to the ego.
