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Answer and Explanation:
1. Nellie Bly affirms that the mentally ill are mistreated, abused and that there is no type of commitment from the employees in relation to the patients, since they are not concerned with their well-being, nor with their correct treatment, since the employees only care about testing new equipment, not caring about patients.
2. Bly uses humor and dramatic irony to be sarcastic about the situation she witnessed. In this case, she tends to give extremely acid information, which shows the mistreatment that she witnessed in the sanatorium, emitting ironic information that meant the opposite, that showed exaggeration, but that were punctual in showing how sanatoriums were uncompromising and cruel institutions. Adjectives, in this case, were used to describe the situations she witnessed and create realistic mental images for readers.
3. The opinions and information that Bly demonstrates shows that she was a journalist committed to the truth and to information, in addition to being extremely courageous and a person committed to social causes and justice to all individuals, especially those most fragile by society.
Answer: The object of the preposition by means of is "protest".
Explanation:<u> The object of the preposition is a noun or a pronoun that completes a prepositional phrase</u> which has been introduced by a preposition. Most times, this noun or pronoun is found to the right of the preposition. Moreover, in some cases, a gerund can also function as object of the preposition, In the sentence provided,<u> the object of the proposition is a noun ("protest") and it is found to the right of "by means of". </u>
Social workers have worked harder and harder ever sense people started protesting and bringing up long unattended to issues
