Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. But the actual unhappiness of the American housewife was suddenly b
eing reported—from The New York Times and Newsweek to Good Housekeeping and CBS television (“The Trapped Housewife”), although almost everybody who talked about it found some superficial reason to dismiss it. Which best describes the connotation of the word “superficial” in the excerpt?
The Feminine Mystique, written by Betty Friedan, came to be published in 1963, at the epitome of the women´s fight for the right to vote and to be seen as something more than a simple breeder and housewife. In fact, Friedan, a psychologist, begins an ardous task of interviewing women in the United States around the 1950´s and 1960´s because she starts noticing that unlike the image being painted in the media of the happy woman who is a mother and housewife vs the unhappy woman who has a career, the reality is totally different. Her research comes together as an article that she wishes to publish, but nobody does, so in the end, she makes it into a book. One of the purposes of the information and results gathered in this book is to show the level of superficiality with which the media and society at large portray the happy woman of their time, implying that no woman who wants to pursue a career over marriage is happy. So, the superficiliaty that Friedan mentions here in her excerpt makes allusion to the frivolous way in which society received her findings on the true matter of unhappiness in married women who are also housewifes.
Lincoln begins his speech using an allusion. His "fourscore and seven years ago" is referring to 1776 when America was granted independence. He is focusing on the unity the country had previously and now was going to strive to reunify the country over the issues of slavery and division. Lincoln was an excellent speaker and proved his point and was assassinated for all of the improvements he was trying to make for the United States.
Scientists discovered that animals can sense rhythmed, showing that they have a high perception. The common ability between animals of the dancing nature is the fact that they could distinguish sound from different sources. Innate behavior is a behavior that is hereditary, while learned behavior comes from observing others and learning from them.
The bushnell personal interest in gaming and persona technology stemmed from his interest in the Spacewar games. He was a member of a fraternity that let him try out new things with the game. He developed Atari which a result of his constant exposure to gamer feedback and his personal creative drive.