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The answer should be the second sentence: Blowing wildly, the icy winter wind tore my woolen cap from my head, as it makes the most sense.
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The setting is the time and location of a story. (Where and when it takes place).
The first sentence definitely wouldn't improve improve the description in the setting of a story, nor would the last. The third sentence includes the location (basketball game), but does not describe it.
Answer: The majors greatly influence the students' future.
Explanation:
The major, as the field of study that a student chooses to focus on, greatly influences his/her future. Naturally, future employers will give advantage to those students that focused on a particular field that is directly connected to the job he/she is about to perform. It is also the student's GPA that can have a positive impact on his/her career. Namely, according to one theory (known as <em>screening theory</em>), employers will rather hire students with higher GPA. Another theory suggests that, because students often have very little working experience, their college grades are the only source of information regarding their skills and habits.
Mr. Gradgrind describes himself as an "eminently practical" man. He lives by the philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and cold, hard fact. He forbids his children to develop imagination and emotions.
Students who will be the products of Mr.Grandgrind's educational system will most likely be a replica of his children; emotionally impaired, self-serving, hypocrite, and manipulative.
"I saw that if there was a small wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was still a more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as i was."
"I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had payed my tax."
