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?
A. societal pressure on women to look a certain way
B. societal pressure on women to be content and fulfilled
C. societal pressure on women to forgo their career aspirations
D. societal pressure on women to pursue a life in show business

Read this excerpt from leah missbach day's foreword to wheels of change.bicycles have long played a role in my life. as a young woman, i rode one year-round before i had a car. but it was later in adulthood that the bicycle became more than a source of transportation for me. the bicycle actually began to truly shape the way i saw the world.what is the author's purpose for including this in the foreword?

Juanito. hey, don't leave yet. what type of work? and where? who do i see? hey, don't leave yet! the duende. (the duende stops and turns). be careful. danger. danger. (he exits.) —blanca flor, angel vigl read these lines from the play again, then rewrite them as they might appear in a novel. the answer is 'hey, don't leave yet," cried juanito. "what type of work? and where? who do i see? hey, don't leave yet! " the duende stopped and turned back to juanito. "be careful. danger," he warned. as he turned to leave, he repeated: "danger."

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader