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Read the excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change.Some stated the liberating effects of the bicycle with less sarcasm. "The bicycle has brought to women a healthful, wholesome means of securing a degree of freedom and independence that no amount of discussion regarding 'women's rights' would ever have produced," wrote the L.A.W. Bulletin and Good Roads magazine in 1898. Meanwhile, Munseg's Magazine assessed the impact of the wheel on women in a special bicycle-themed issue. "If she has ridden her bicycle into new fields, becoming in the process a new creature, it has been gradually and unconsciously," the editors wrote. "She did not have to be born again in some mysterious fashion, becoming a strange creature, a new woman. She is more like the 'eternal feminine,' who has taken on wings, and who is using them with an ever increasing delight in her new power." Indeed, many bicycle companies at home and abroad did put wings on the women in their advertisements, emphasizing that they had taken flight.

Why does Lincoln conclude with an appeal to both pathos and ethos? Select three answers.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .But the bicycle craze had a more lasting impact on women’s clothing than just the use of bloomers. Thanks in large part to cycling, the innovation of rational dress reformers were starting to take effect by the end of the 1890s. Corsets were on their way out, dresses were getting shorter, and women no longer wore the heavy, bulky undergarments that gave them round, unnatural shapes. These changes went a long way toward unburdening women and setting the stage for them to be healthier and more active in the coming century.

Look at the image and read the caption.Caption: This is an image of a woman wearing a crinoline in the 1850s created by cartoonist George Cruikshank.

Look at the frame from One War Ends, Another Begins.Read the excerpt from A Story of the Red Cross.Later on arrived a shipload of supplies from the business people of New York, which were stored with the Galveston committee, and we were asked to aid in the distribution of these supplies, and to a certain extent we did, but succeeded in organizing a committee of citizens, ladies and gentlemen, to carry out and complete this distribution.That was the real power of Clara.Which is one similarity between the frame and the excerpt?

Read the paragraph from a letter.I am writing to you today to discuss the situation at the downtown park. Recently, my family and I attended the annual town picnic there. Unfortunately, we were mobbed by unruly geese who stole our lunches. The overwhelming number of geese at the park has become unacceptable.

What does Martin Luther King Jr. make allusions to in his "I Have a Dream” speech? Select 4 options.Abraham Lincolnthe Emancipation Proclamationthe Washington MonumentJohn F. Kennedythe Constitutionthe Bible

Read the clause.During the long winter, the harsh restrictions provoked anger and outrage in the public.

Read the sentence.When they arrived at the beach, the students who had never seen the ocean before ran toward the shore.

Read the paragraph.Recently, I have noticed that our student body has adopted a practice that should be avoided. Students discard a large amount of uneaten food during lunch. Everything thrown in the trash bins ends up in a landfill, which is a problem because the pollution and gases related to landfills can harm the environment.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change.By the turn of the century, the bicycle's heyday was over and a new mechanical wonder promised to transport men and women faster and farther than ever before. Bicycle manufacturers retooled their factories to build them and bicycle repair shops installed gasoline tanks to service them. The era of the automobile had begun.

Read this excerpt from the introduction to Wheels of Change by Sue Macy.Imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. Add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. How suffocated women must have felt. And how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons.

Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.[S]hall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Which is a dependent clause?

Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.”The coal companies, in response, recruited workers from as far as New York’s Ellis Island, where newly arriving immigrants were desperate for jobs.

How does the author of the letter to the editor feel about urban sprawl?

What is the central idea of the letter to the editor?

Which excerpt from the introduction to A state of War and Peace contains subjective language?

Read the excerpt from A State of War and Peace.Most awards raise a cacophony of sentiment, from praise and admiration to protests or just plain head-scratching. In the entertainment industry, the Academy Awards regularly elicit outrage.

Read the excerpt from A State of War and Peace.As soon as his nomination was announced, President Obama's critics pointed out the irony of choosing this leader, who at the time was in the middle of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since he was conferred the prize in 2009, there have been calls for Obama to give back the Peace Prize, given his push to use force against Syria, with or without a U.N. Security Council resolution, and his drone use in the Middle East.