Answer: C) Getting what you want may not make you happy.
The excerpt occurs afer Mr. Shiftlet abandons his wife, Lucynell, in the diner. It is extremely ironic because, even though he abandoned a woman who is completely dependent on him, Mr. Shiftlet feels responsible towards hitchhikers.
It is also an episode that shows that getting what you want may not always make you happy. He has obtained the liberty and solitude he wanted by leaving his wife. However, as he gets in the car, he realized he prefers not to be alone, and feels even more depressed than before.
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1 . The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.
2.What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
3.We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
4.In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.
5.Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.
Yes, it is good to be prepared for an earthquake.
First option since alliteration is mostly a sentence or stanza of similar sounding words while the second option is overly complicated and doesn't reflect what alliteration means.
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A part to whole analogy that compares two types of transportation is ''wheel is to car as motor is to boat". The way to rewrite the analogy so that it shows a whole to part relationship. is "car is to wheel as boat is to motor".
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