There was no such luxury as a room of one’s own, for apartments had to be shared with paying boarders. Sometimes the beds themselves had to be shared. There were rooms, including kitchens, whose floors were covered wall to wall with mattresses, each serving two or three, male boarders in one room, women in another, and it was not unheard of for people to sleep in shifts, those who worked at night taking turns with those who worked by day. When a household ran out of mattresses, two kitchen chairs with a board laid across them served as a bed. The conditions were .

Which of the following questions could you ask in a discussion on vacation destinations to establish common ground?

Read the excerpt from chapter 2 of the awakening. they chatted incessantly: about the things around them; their amusing adventure out in the water—it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the chênière; about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the farival twins, who were now performing the overture to “the poet and the peasant.” what is the correct meaning of the word “aspect” based on its usage in the excerpt? character negativity performance boredom

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.