What is Achebe’s purpose in this passage?
to argue that, although Conrad is racist, he should be admired for treating Europeans less favorably
to advocate for modern historians to reevaluate Europe’s “civilizing” mission in Africa
to point out and condemn literary critics who have long misinterpreted Conrad’s work as racist
to suggest that the racist attitudes in Conrad’s work are ignored because of literary critics’ bias

the answer should be:

the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.

the answer is b) ''i hereby express my profound remorse together with my sincere mourning ''.

the reason being that although all of the options provided are valid the main idea of the speech by prime minister junichiro koizumi is to express his and japan's current antiwar pledge.

he states that 59 years had passed since the war, he acknowledges the 3 million japanese that lost their lives during the war and those countries who were affected by their decisions, as well as the way japan intends to develop relationships across the globe however all of this can be summarize to how japan as a whole regrets the war and its consecuences.

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