Read the final paragraph of nellie bly's essay "as a white slave: her experience in the role of a new york shop-girl making paper boxes." the work was tiresome, and after i had learned all i could from the rather reticent girls i was anxious to leave. i noticed some rather peculiar things on my trip to and from the factory. i noticed that men were much quicker to offer their places to the working-girls on the cars than they were to offer them to well-dressed women. another thing quite as noticeable, i had more men try to get up a flirtation with me while i was a box-factory girl than i ever had before. the girls were nice in their manners and as polite as ones reared at home. they never forgot to one another for the slightest service, and there was quite a little air of "good form" in many of their actions. i have seen many worse girls in much higher positions than the white slaves of new york. which of these is revealed about the author of this paragraph? she has little respect for women. she was wealthy. she enjoyed her work at the factory. she was a social advocate.

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

While studying, lana reached her goal of reading half a chapter without interruptions. what should she do next?

Read the passage from animal farm. "that was part of the arrangement! " cried squealer. "jones's shot only grazed him. i could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. the plot was for snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. and he very nearly succeeded—i will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic leader, comrade napoleon. do you not remember how, just at the moment when jones and his men had got inside the yard, snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? and do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that comrade napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'death to humanity! ' and sank his teeth in jones's leg? surely you remember that, comrades? " exclaimed squealer, frisking from side to side. now when squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. at any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle snowball had turned to flee. but boxer was still a little uneasy. how does the characterization of squealer support the author’s purpose? squealer's dramatic accusations draw parallels between him and stalin’s propagandists. squealer's uncertainty shows that he is not a reliable ally of napoleon and is ineffective with messaging. squealer's ability to get the animals to listen to him shows that any animal can rise to be a leader in time. squealer's humble interactions with the animals reflect the importance of equality and cooperation.