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 two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man

What is the pourpose of the quotation marks in this sentence above? to show what maria said . to show how maria felt. to show what maria thought. to show how maria said it.