1. which of the following words best characterizes the author's opinion of the plant in the following passage? sides of beef suspended from an overhead trolley swing toward a group of men. each worker has a large knife in one hand and a steel hook in the other. they grab the meat with their hooks and attack it fiercely with their knives. as they hack away, using all their strength, grunting, the place suddenly feels different, primordial. the machinery seems beside the point, and what's going on before me has been going on for thousands of years—the meat, the hook, the knife, men straining to cut more meat. work cited schlosser, eric. “the most dangerous job.” fast food nation: the dark side of the all-american meal. boston: houghton mifflin, 2001. 169-192. print. a. overly mechanized b. brutal c. surprisingly peaceful d. sentimental

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

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