Ralph was a young adult in the 1970s. His knowledge of the 1972 Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up by President Nixon helped form his negative view of all politicians which continues to this day. Ralph's political opinions are most likely a result of

Dissapointment.

Explanation:

Ralph had surely learned about the virtues of democracy, good governance and accountability. Then Watergate happened and he, just like millions of Americans, saw and listened to president Nixon lying and obstructing justice after having abused his power to spy on his political rivals. The Watergate scandal erosioned the credibility of the political system and of the institution of the presidency. So, Ralph became dissapointed.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.