Read the excerpt from the feminine mystique. “if i have only one life, let me live it as a blonde,” a larger-than-life-sized picture of a pretty, vacuous woman proclaimed from newspaper, magazine, and drugstore ads. and across america, three out of every ten women dyed their hair blonde. they ate a chalk called metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of the thin young models. department-store buyers reported that american women, since 1939, had become three and four sizes smaller. the underlined terms in this excerpt most relate to which issue? societal pressure on women to look a certain way societal pressure on women to be content and fulfilled societal pressure on women to forgo their career aspirations societal pressure on women to pursue a life in show business

In what ways is crooks even more lonely than the other men on the ranch

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Provide at least two quotes from the play romeo and juliet to show that the characters’ differences did or did not define them.