How do Patrick Califia's “The Hustler” and Kushner’s “Angels in America” explore/represent the relationship between sexuality and crime, law, legislative power, investigation, punishment, and/or justice?

Read the excerpt from "Saving a Ghost Animal"

First, American Indians came to the island. They cleared forests and hunted the mammals. Later, explorers from Europe arrived. 

Based on the context clues, what is the meaning of the word explorers?

◯ To study animal behavior

◯ characterized by a sense of adventure

◯ people who investigate unknown lands 

◯ the act of destroying natural habitats

9 - It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you hall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your end, any mitigation, any rest at all. You will vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. Oh, who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! All that we can possibly say bout it, gives but a very feeble, faint representation of it; it is inexpressible and inconceivable: For "who knows the power of God's anger?"