Read the following two sentences. (1) gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) green grass grows on the mountain. how does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?

a. the first sentence is encoded, and the second sentence is decoded.
b. we group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.
c. we learn the first sentence subliminally which lets us translate the meaning of the second sentence quicker.
d. we read the first sentence as practice and the second sentence as real.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

the main character of "the secret life of walter mitty" retreats into a false pretense as a means escape from his mundane reality -- this is a flagrant issue seen in societies abroad, typically found in young adults and it is robbing our youths of their childhood.

explanation:

a thesis -- a well developed, formal thesis is required to be one sentence long. there are many themes in "the secret life of walter mitty" and i had resolved to give you one of the simpler ones while still honing it with class.