Answer:
A synonym for the word sad.
<em>“The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.”</em>
The correct answers are: language, religion and customs.
In this excerpt from “Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros we can see many elements of cultural heritage.
The mixture of English and Spanish as in "la ofrenda box" and "the altar to La Divina Providencia" shows how Mexicans still maintaing their own language.
The dropping of money before the altar, lighting of candles and the genuflecting present their devotion to their Christian Religion.
And her kissing her thumb after the blessing expresses a custom within the Chrisitan Religion as well.
B. <span>In the Haida myth, mischievous Raven frees the trapped stars to illuminate the sky, much to the chief’s annoyance.
C. </span><span>In the Māori myth, Tāne decides to honor his father, Rangi, by decorating him with stars.</span>
