What did jefferson and his colleagues hope to achieve by creating the declaration of independence?

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

What does the interaction between the nurse and erkan in paragraph 1 reveal about erkan? erkan is upset because no one believes he has been robbed. erkan is quite angry but he is mostly harmless. erkan is incoherent and won't listen to reason. erkan is a violent man and poses a threat to those around him.

According to warren in the brown opinion, how did conditions change between the time the fourteenth amendment was adopted and the time the supreme court considered brown v. board of education?