Read this quotation from the beginning of the Gettysburg Address. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty
What does Lincoln's reference to an earlier time period suggest?
A. He recognizes the need for humor at a sad time.

B. He wishes to honor the sacrifices made at Gettysburg.
C. He is concerned with losses due to battlefield casualties.
D. He is presenting the war as a fight to save the legacy of the nation's founders.

Which values of the ancient greeks are most emphasized in the excerpt?

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

How does the mother defend her child to the old duck