Answer:
- In the 1920s, there was a HUGE technological advance, meaning people were starting how to program and build machines, and using those newfound skills to their advantage,
Explanation:
Basically, people built machines to do work faster, which made more products, which meant more customers. People didn't have to spend a huge amount of money to profit a huge amount of money. That means poor/unemployed people got jobs, and it went down like clockwork, as more customers came, they needed more people, making more jobs, making more money, making the economy skyrocket.
In this excerpt the narrator is complaining about the way achievement test are and how up to that they measure someone’s knowledge. He uses the word bland to describe the right answer of this kind of tests which it means „lacking a strong or particular flavor; not interesting”, in this context can be used describing it as non-sense or not obvious answers. He also complains about how bad he is in this because he cannot find the logic in the answers. With this explained, we can infer that the right answer is D Tan believes that achievement tests give inflated measurements of language ability, because he kind of argues that the answers are not "valid" to measure it.
Answer:
Boundless and bare
A second meaning or sound - alike word used to create humor.
Thunder and lightning will ruin a pool party, so the weather really isn't "great."
Explanation:
I'm not too sure for number one, but situational irony is basically saying that the situation makes the actions in it have the opposite effect. I'm pretty sure that boundless and bare is the right thing.
A pun is a joke that uses the multiple meanings of a word. The answer is a second meaning or sound - alike word used to create humor.
In verbal irony, the speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that is the opposite to the literal or usual meaning of what the speaker says. in this case, I think it's thunder and lightning will ruin a pool party, so the weather really isn't "great."
The answer are:
11.c. maintain control over her own life and leave Mango Street one day
> Alicia kept telling about her sense of responsibility, that she has to know who she is.
12.b. powerlessness
> Mamacita found it hard to integrate into the local culture since she was from Mexico and she speaks no English making her helpless and lonely.
13.d. the incident in the monkey garden and the assault at the carnival
> instead of getting helped when she told Tito's mother and confronted the boys to help her, she was ridiculed by them(Sally and the boys) instead
14.a. a means of maintaining her freedom
> Lupe told her to keep writing because it will keep her free.
15.she must speak for those people she knows who cannot speak for themselves.
> she was out of the house on the mango street but she's worried and she wanted to go back for the rest and help them.
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