This comes from the book Lummox by Fannie Hurst which narrates the life of Bertha, an immigrant woman who works as a maid, and struggles with the family she lives with, except for a young poet who is in love with her. this novel explain the dificulties of being someone fighting for a better life. Injustices such as humiliation, sexual assault, and a miserable wage.
She starts going from a rich house to another working as a maid and not lasting in any of them because of different reasons, each time she goes back to the original home she always finds shaming and hate towards her.
So, because of this constant moving, being very unstable, always looking for a place, peace, kindness, is why it is said that she runs like lightning; unpredictable and not lasting when running away.
Let me share a passage from the book which I love and expresses with intensity what the book is about. A very powerful fragment
<em>"The mystery of the will to live. Not a morning but what Bertha knew the terrible reluctance of awakening to reality. She came up out of sleep with a struggle, fighting off another day; turning her back to it and lying there sick with its imminence as the muslin portieres began to lighten. To come out of sleep so enamored of it that to feel the lids lift back from the eyes was torture. To die a little every night and yet fear the beauty of death more than the starkness of life. Sometimes when Bertha came out of sleep, fighting and sobbing against the awakening and grimacing face of Willy hung over her terrible with reality, the impulse to throttle herself back to sleep seemed too strong to withstand. And yet that wink of dawn against the muslin. The tiny vibratory messages of life that were waiting to run across the floor when her bare feet would swing down to it. Ah, that will to live."</em>
Yes it is absolutely true that one of the major issues of concern for older Americans is ageism. The correct option among all the two options that are given in the question is the first option. Ageism is actually the way of discrimination against people based on their age. This problem is on the rise in the United States and around the globe.
Media impact learning by showing or depicting societal norms. A simple handshake is an acceptable norm in society which signifies an acknowledgement. This shaking is a non-verbal agreement of trust and confidence by which two people show their gestures of feeling at ease or comfortable with the current situation. Media is powerful tool in influencing the minds of many and in molding some of the basic characters that are widely accepted or denied in society. They play an important role in the exact development and information dissemination that people need especially in trying times.
In Bach's day, the Lutheran church service lasted about 4 hours.
Answer:
Two - thirds
Explanation:
Two-thirds of illiterate adults are women because some people think famales does not need to acquired knowledge and be educated because they felt that women responsibility is to take care of the home, cooked, and care for their children and this has remain unchanged for past 20 years and above making women to be the highest number of illiterate adult in the world.
Secondly women who are not buoyant financially or whose family are not buoyant to train them to school may also increased the number of female adult who are illiterate in the world.
