COMMONLIT ASSESSMENT: LETTER FROM MARY MALLON: ON BEING ‘TYPHOID MARY’
Reread the following quote from paragraph 10: “He really thought I liked it here, that I did not care for my freedom.” How does this contribute to the development of ideas in the text?

In this text, the author points out the fact that there was a tension at the root of Mary Mallon's case. Mary Mallon was found to be an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. The many cases of the disease that she caused led her to be quarantined for more than 20 years.

The tension in this problem occurs between the need to protect innocent people from disease, while balancing the right to liberty of a woman who carries it. The quote presented in this passage contributes to this idea by showing that many people did not understand Mallon's feelings and desires. Mallon tells us that the doctor she talked to could not understand why she wanted her freedom. This shows that Mallon was misunderstood and disregarded, and that the tension between the two ideals was not easy to resolve. This contributes to the development of ideas in the text.

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.