Last spring, employees of the Hartville Corporation organized a weeklong strike to protest poor working conditions and unreasonable company policies. The strike resulted in huge financial
losses for the company and the threat of a national boycott on Hartville products.
The situation resulted in the formation of an employee task force, supported by Hartville
management, to review circumstances that led to the strike. The task-force findings follow:
Hartville's overtime pay schedule is well below the national level, and overtime is
mandatory at least once a week.
Employees working in the manufacturing department have an alarmingly high rate of
repetitive stress injury. The equipment they are working with is extremely old and
dangerous and does not meet current health and safety standards. The task force
recommended that equipment be evaluated and brought up-to date immediately.
Sick and personal day policies are unclear. Employees report conflicting and/or confusing
policies relating to sick and personal days, which have resulted in numerous
misunderstandings about procedures and allowances as well as unfair disciplinary action.

Which of the following excerpt from part one of trifles suggest that mrs. hale believes mrs. wright may have had a motive for killing her husband?

Read the passage. which statement would be the best summary to give the argument meaningful context? a. the passage is fine the way it is. b. th word "debate" should be removed, because it indicates disagreement. c. the word "claim" should be removed because this is not the claim. d. the sentence that begins " i personally believe" should be removed because it shows bias.

Read this passage from alan weisman's "the city without us": he props his running shoe against the whitish bark of a chinese amur cork tree, growing among the last of the hemlocks. "this may sound blasphemous, but maintaining biodiversity is less important than maintaining a functioning ecosystem. what matters is that soil is protected, that water gets cleaned, that trees filter the air, that a canopy regenerates new seedlings to keep nutrients from draining away into the bronx river." now read this passage from jared diamond's "the ends of the world as we know them": both the shoguns and the japanese peasants took a long-term view: the former expected to pass on their power to their children, and the latter expected to pass on their land. . today, despite having the highest human population density of any large developed country, japan is more than 70 percent forested. what common theme of green literature is most strongly evident in both passages? a. in order to thrive in coming centuries, people must find viable alternatives to fossil fuels, such as coal. b. with careful and intelligent management, ecosystems can still thrive after human beings have changed them. c. in order meet their goals, environmentalists must people develop a personal desire to protect nature. d. there is no excuse for damaging the natural world, and anyone who does so will pay a steep price.