Apply a four-point refutation (point, counter-point, evidence, summation) to the following argument/example: Thesis: Fashion and identity are inseparable companions.

Point: "This can be simply proven by analyzing the reaction of people on the street to people wearing different types of clothing. The preference is always given to people dressed in 'business style,' personifying their dignity and seriousness in everything. This is one of the primary reasons that even the smallest companies make wearing a suit one of their requirements for their employees. The customers feel more confident in the presence of such 'consultants.' So, fashion is a very keen tool of manipulation while communicating, besides its importance in social class, culture, sex and gender relations.

Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt from "that spot" by jack london? i don’t think much of stephen mackaye any more, though i used to swear by him. i know that in those days i loved him more than my own brother. if ever i meet stephen mackaye again, i shall not be responsible for my actions. it passes beyond me that a man with whom i shared food and blanket, and with whom i mushed over the chilcoot trail, should turn out the way he did. i always sized steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. i shall never trust my judgment in men again. why, i nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the stewart; and he saved my life on the little salmon. and now, after the years we were together, all i can say of stephen mackaye is that he is the meanest man i ever knew. a. excited b. ironic c. indignant d. playful

Which of the narrator's statements in "the yellow wallpaper" suggests that she does not think women are too frail to be intellectual? a. i verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick! b. of course i didn't do a thing. jennie sees to everything now. c. i don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and i'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. d. so i walk a little in the garden or down that lovely lane, sit on the porch under the roses, and lie down up here a good deal.

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"