Who is the audience of the passage?
What is the topic of the passage?
What is the purpose of the passage?
I should like to comment briefly on the amendments
proposed by the Soviet delegation. The language of these
amendments has been dressed up somewhat, but the
substance is the same as the amendments which were
offered by the Soviet delegation in committee and
rejected after exhaustive discussion. Substantially the
same amendments have been previously considered and
rejected in the Human Rights Commission. We in the
United States admire those who fight for their
convictions, and the Soviet delegation has fought for their
convictions. But in the older democracies we have
learned that sometimes we bow to the will of the
majority. In doing that, we do not give up our
convictions. We continue sometimes to persuade, and
eventually we may be successful. But we know that we
have to work together and we have to progress. So, we
believe that when we have made a good fight, and the
majority is against us, it is perhaps better tactics to try to
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[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant