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Read this excerpt from "A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman" and answer the question.

The nuns at school, on the other hand, insinuated that India had long outlived its glories, and that if we wanted to be educated, modern women, we’d better hit the trail westward.

Why does the author most likely use the phrase "hit the trail westward" in this excerpt?

A. To allow readers a clear visual image of the direction her life would take.

B. To help readers locate America in relation to Calcutta

C. To allude to the idea of the America Dream

D. To contrast the idea of modern with the old west

the answered is D to contest the idea of modern with the old west

either a donut or a sphere or a pancake or a flat sphere. it depends on where the vertical line is.

if the line goes through the center of the circle and is perpendicular to a diameter containing the center, then you get a flat circle.

if the line and the diameter of a the circle meet in the center of the diameter and at an angle, you get a pancake.

if the line is on the circumference of the circle and is at right angles   to the circle you get a ring.

if the line contains the diameter, you get a sphere.

the the line is parallel to the diameter and touches the circumference, you get a donut.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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