This line comes from "The Things They Carried" by Tim O Brien when he served in Vietnam. The term hard vocabulary to contain terrible softness simply reflects what he has done to serve in Vietnam. In times of war, it is not good to be internally soft as it may serve as weakness to enemies. Therefore, hard vocabulary refers to the words that one would say to himself and others in order to project strength and hide softness or weakness inside.
The correct answer would be C and D because they talk about competition!
C: <span>Rivalries developed as women worked to break each other’s records, and some began to battle back and forth.
D:</span><span>Rivalries developed as women worked to break each other’s records, and some began to battle back and forth.</span>
Shakespeare's historical plays dramatize the lives of English rulers during the Medieval era. These plays are not always historically accurate because A. Shakespeare changed the facts to make a political or social statement.
B isn't correct because he was alive at the time.
C isn't correct because only his comedies are funny, but not tragedies and historical dramas.
D isn't correct because he didn't care much for monarchs of foreign countries.
