The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
Being successful is about learning from the mistakes you have made, hence not making it again as you have learnt your lesson and in keeping with that make better decisions next time.
I think the meaning of the phrase would be that she sees that food and education doesnt give her the gratification trendy apparel does. im not sure about what the context clues are but this should give you an idea. sorry i couldnt fully answer this.
Absolute construction<span> is a </span>grammatical construction<span> standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements.</span>
