Wednesday is the day that Jesus got betrayed, and Friday is the day He got crucified. From other answers, you can see it is because Christians didn't want to act like the hypocrites who fasted Monday and Thursday. Those were the Jews.
D. It shows the shift in Glen Curtis's career by stating the fact that he went from being an unknown person to becoming a celebrity.
Explanation:
- Using knowledge gained from the Red Wing and the White Wing, Curtiss built the "June Bug", outfitted with additional improvements. This airplane responded so well in testing, that Curtiss determined to enter it in competition for the Scientific American trophy. He won the first leg in 1908.
- He did an aircraft and named it the "Hudson Flyer". He won the prize money, nationwide recognition, and in the process, won the third leg of the Scientific American Competition and permanent possession of the coveted trophy.
- A final high point in Curtiss's aviation career came in 1919, when the U.S.Navy Curtiss NC-4 Flying Boat became the first aircraft to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The central theme is that daughter wishes she could inherit some qualities from her mother.
