Answer:
One of the causes of women's issues is the myth that women are biologically inferior to men. This myth has led to years and years of oppression from men to women: not letting women vote, having to stay home and therefore not letting women work, and also men believing they can do whatever they want with women just because they are "better".
Steinem explains how women survived specific tragedies better than men and how women live longer than men, which proves women aren't inferior. However, she doesn't want to repeat what men did: <em>"I don't want to prove the superiority of one sex to another. That would only be repeating a male mistake."
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Explanation:
To complete this exercise, you have to <u>read Gloria Steinem's testimony</u> before the Senate hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment in 1970. In her testimony, she explains the myths that led to the oppression of women and she also relates it with the oppression of black people, and specifically black women.
They have a very close friendship.
This is a personal question. I will answer below according to the word that was unfamiliar to me, but feel free to add to the answer in case there were more for you.
Answer and Explanation:
The word that I found unfamiliar and whose meaning I did not know at first was "behest". I had never seen that word before. To understand its meaning, I looked for context clues. <u>The rest of the sentence in which "behest" appears functions as a clue to finding its meaning. It says that, at a person's behest, something happened: "the Exhibition dropped its superfluous rags and stripped itself. . ." As soon as I read this part, it made me think of the word "command." For instance, the sentence "At the general's command, the troops advanced" has a similar connotation to the one with "behest".</u>
To confirm my assumptions, I looked the word up online and found it indeed means "order" or "command".
Dill had it all, anything that he wished upon he received except for parents to stay togethet. He felt that his parents don't spend any time with him ever since his mother remarried. He didn't feel like they needed him anymore even though he needed them.
