The women of Pennsylvania contributed greatly to both the American Revolution and the Civil War, providing many different types of support to the soldiers fighting the battles. (2) Female patriots from Pennsylvania include Catherine Smith, who manufactured musket barrels; battle heroine Molly Pitcher; and Sara Franklin Bache and Ester De Berdt Reed, who organized 2,200 women to help soldiers. (3) Pennsylvania women also worked for many reforms, including women’s rights, during the 1700s and 1800s; although rights for women changed little during this time, their efforts laid the groundwork for future reforms. Which is the most effective way to vary the length of the sentences in the passage?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .