The main idea of the biography is that Dorothy deserves credit as a pioneer for her accomplishments at NASA. The sentence that confirms this is:
“…Vaughan was both a respected mathematician and NASA's first African-American manager.”
We can arrive at this answer because:
- Dorothy Vaughan's biography wants to show why she was a scientist and someone so important to American society.
- In addition to having contributed a lot to the work of NASA, Vaughan was a pioneer in that institution.
- That's because, NASA was an institution dominated by white people, who had more access to higher education and administrative positions.
- However, Dorothy Vaughan became the first African-American manager that NASA had, in addition to being one of the first women to occupy this position, which makes her a pioneer.
As the central idea of a text is the main subject that the text intends to address, we can affirm that Dorothy Vaughan's pioneering spirit is the central idea of her biography.
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Answer:
Explanation:
This answer is not full, the options are missing. They are as following:
- A. She wants other people to see her.
- B. She feels genuine admiration for the man.
- C. She exaggerates her actions in order to prove a point.
- D. She is more intent on pleasing herself than she is on pleasing the man.
The answers are A, C and D.
<u>From the excerpt we can see the woman is exaggerating her movements and actions, which is most clearly seen in the last line "She spoke with great distinctness, moving her lips meticulously, as if in parlance with the deaf."</u>
<u>She is exaggerating her movement of the lips and accenting of the words in order to try to prove what she says and underline its importance, even to hide her real thoughts. </u>
<u>We also see she does this for her own enjoyment and exposure with the line "extended her hand at the length of her arm and held it so for all the world to see, until the Negro took it, shook it, and gave it back to her."</u>
<u>With this she is trying to draw attention to her pleasure, to the man taking her hand, to show how she is graceful and polite, and to better her social status. </u>
Answer:
c)the world in which computers have exaggerated power shows the dangers of technology
