There are many canyons, but the Grand Canyon of Arizona is the Mecca of the traveling world, and El Tovar always has the housing of the choice spirits who have run the gamut of tourist delights in other lands. This home-like inn shelters men of letters, scientists, geologists, artists and businessmen. Any night, in the year, on the rim of this wonderful abyss, there will be found a miniature city, with its life and sparkle, its fellowships and social converse, its bustle and abandon, and, best of all, the simon-pure democracy inherent among traveled men and women. In magical contrast with this human center, is the nearby solitude, for one may in a moment step from the companionship of men to the isolation of the desert or mountain—at will you may be one of the crowd or a hermit.

Which of the following sentences best summarizes the above selection?

A.
The Grand Canyon is a shelter to writers, scientists, geologists, artists, and businessmen. When these people gather at the El Tovar Inn, the place transforms itself into a miniature city.
B.
The Grand Canyon offers great solitude for those seeking to find a quiet place. The remoteness of the desert or the mountains brings a certain kind of peace for the hermits.
C.
The Grand Canyon offers simon-pure freedom that can be found only among men and women who have traveled extensively. It is the only place where a sense of absolute freedom exists.
D.
The Grand Canyon is a place of pilgrimage for travelers and attracts people from all walks of life. This is one place where a person can at once be part of a crowd or be alone.

Which word in the sentence is the object of the preposition ? scrape the dishes and put them in the sink 1)in 2)them 3)dishes 4)sink

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .

How does including this excerpt at the beginning of the essay contribute to his argument post