Read this excerpt from "the sinews of peace" by winston churchill: in those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over, and that the league of nations would become all-powerful. i do not see or feel that same confidence or even the same hopes in the haggard world at the present time. which phrase best describes churchill's purpose for including this passage in his speech? to suggest that the united nations will be successful to claim that he was never hopeful or confident about the league of nations to forewarn that there is no guarantee that people are capable of ending war to prevent people from becoming too pessimistic

Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a.odysseus does not care about his crew. b.odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c.odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d.odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e.odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.