Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis in 1915. In the story, the main character turns into a bug. Although this is a supernatural event, Kafka uses
real-life details about society that European readers during that time would
likely have found familiar. Which idea does the the following sentence from
the passage best express?
"O God," he thought, "what a demanding job I've chosen!
Day in, day out, on the road. The stresses of selling are
much greater than the actual work going on at head office,
and, in addition to that, I still have to cope with the
problems of travelling, the worries about train connections,
irregular bad food, temporary and constantly changing
human relationships, which never come from the heart. To
hell with it all!
A. People enjoyed traveling by train.
O B. It was easy to make friends with new people.
C. Train travel was the best way to get from one city to the other.
D. People had jobs that were repetitive and boring.
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Which excerpt from shirley chisholm’s speech “equal rights for women” provides support for chisholm’s analysis of how the facts justify her conclusion? `it is true that part of the problem has been that women have not been aggressive in demanding their rights. this was also true of the black population for many years. they submitted to oppression and even cooperated with it. women have done the same thing. `women need no protection that men do not need. what we need are laws to protect working people, to guarantee them fair pay, safe working conditions, protection against sickness and layoffs, and provision for dignified, comfortable retirement. men and women need these things equally. that one sex needs protection more than the other is a male supremacist myth. `it is obvious that discrimination exists. women do not have the opportunities that men do. and women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as ‘‘odd’’ and “unfeminine.” the fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board, or a member of the house, does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. `as in the field of equal rights for blacks, spanish-americans, the indians, and other groups, laws will not change such deep-seated problems overnight. but they can be used to provide protection for those who are most abused, and to begin the process of evolutionary change by compelling the insensitive majority to reexamine its unconscious attitudes.