PLEASE HELP, MY FRIENDS In the gettysburg address, What impact does starting the second paragraph with "now" have on its meaning?

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set of steps that assist students in increasing their familiarity and understanding of Lincoln’s

speech through a series of text dependent tasks and questions that ultimately develop college

and career ready skills identified in the Common Core State Standards.

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basically means the stoc market is going down since   dow is one of the most sucessful buiness it would be a tragedy for it to go down and it ensures the ruinty of the stock market