When I was teaching through UCSC Extension, one of the students asked if I would meet her outside of class for intensive, one-on-one instruction in editing. I agreed. Turns out, she'd been recently hired as an editor by a major player in the industry, and she now found herself in over her head because, actually, she couldn't edit. Her background? She'd been a massage therapist who'd taken to computers when the desktop models first came out, and so she'd begun a small desktop publishing business. As she worked with the various pieces clients gave her, she began to make little corrections here and there. Soon, she was calling herself an editor. (After all, she was making changes in someone else's text, wasn't she?)
Answer:
I think it would be hard to be Jo since she is not able to pursue her own dreams
Explanation:
I've read the book, and it sucks to be Jo. Gender expectations in the 1860's were super strict, and Jo just wanted to be free and live life as <em>she</em> wanted to live it.
Santiago says he will clean all the merchant’s crystal overnight in exchange for money to get to Egypt. The merchant replies that the trip to Egypt is so long and expensive that Santiago couldn’t earn enough for the trip in a year. Santiago feels disappointed but agrees to take the job.
Answer: today, somewhat, and about
Explanation:
I ate a salad with onions earlier <u>today</u>, so I am <u>somewhat </u>self-conscious <u>about </u>having smelly breath.
