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It explains: the slowdown
It's a fragment, of a sentance.
Answer: 2. And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man
The line " And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man" from the <em>song of myself </em>by Walt Whitman indicates that all human beings are equal regardless of the gender. Whatever is the gender, everybody is great according to the poet.
I believe it's D. Because the author disliked and disrespected his father. <span />
