What is a duty or task to be fulfilled

Ethnicity is used to distinguish between groups based on cultural elements, but according to the information presented in the lecture (blank) would encompass the details about a person like the shape of his or her features.

8) this map shows the population density of india. the redder the area, the higher the concentration of the population. which is the most likely reason for the high population density in the northeastern part of india? a) there is little pollution there b) the ganges river is in the region c) most of the factories are located in that region d) most people want to live close to the himalaya mountains

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?