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if those days are not to come to pass-if we are to have a world in which we can breathe freely and live amity without fear-the peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort to uphold laws and principles on which alone peace can rest secure.
which conclusion best explains how the excerpt's organizations pattern communications the author's purpose
a. the problem and solution organizational pattern creates a mood of hope and possibility; this persuades americans that they must act to secure a more certain future.
b. the compare and contrast organizational pattern suggests that america should occupy other nations and establish laws that make other countries accept her rule.
c. the chronological organizational pattern suggests that america has a long history of involvement in foreign affairs, and then suggests that this involvement must continue.
d. the cause and effect organizational pattern suggests that america is in immediate danger, and she should ally herself with the nations who can provide the best military protection

Select the correct answer. what opinion about russian society does leo tolstoy express in this excerpt from the death of ivan ilyich? the awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long. he saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. only gerasim recognized it and pitied him. and so ivan ilyich felt at ease only with him. he felt comforted when gerasim supported his legs (sometimes all night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "don't you worry, ivan ilyich. i'll get sleep enough later on," or when he suddenly became familiar and exclaimed: "if you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should i grudge a little trouble? " gerasim alone did not lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simply felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master. once when ivan ilyich was sending him away he even said straight out: "we shall all of us die, so why should i grudge a little trouble? "—expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came. a. the peasant class in nineteenth-century russia was full of honest and compassionate people. b. educated professionals gained influence in russian society in the nineteenth century. c. in the nineteenth century, middle-class russians were rich and well-educated. d. peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.