Explanation:
pretended she was crazy and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York City mental institution.
“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.”
Those words, describing New York City’s most notorious mental institution, were written by journalist Nellie Bly in 1887. It was no mere armchair observation, because Bly got herself committed to Blackwell’s and wrote a shocking exposé called Ten Days In A Madhouse. The series of articles became a best-selling book, launching Bly’s career as a world-famous investigative reporter and also helping bring reform to the asylum.
In the late 1880s, New York newspapers were full of chilling tales about brutality and patient abuse at the city’s various mental institutions. Into the fray came the plucky 23-year Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Cochrane, she renamed
This is the original sentence: <span>In a feeding frenzy, the pigeons descended upon the breadcrumbs that the kindly old man on the park bench continued to toss.
The correct answer is the prepositional phrase "on the park bench" acts as an adjectival phrase.
A is incorrect because a prepositional phrase cannot be a gerund phrase too. B is incorrect because a prepositional phrase cannot be a verb phrase as well. D is incorrect because 'to toss' is not a prepositional phrase, but rather an infinitive.
</span>
I took the test the answer is C.
Answer:
“... there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected.”
Explanation:
Angelo Pellegrini was a writer who became famous for his works about the pleasures of food, wine, community. With the rest of his family, he immigrated in 1913 from Tuscany to McCleary, Washington. He wrote a lot about the Italian immigrant experience.
The given paragraph tells us that immigrants were very anxious about arriving in America because of the exams that awaited them and could get them sent back to Europe if they were rejected. The quote that contains the same idea is the second one: <em>... there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected.</em>