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Buell's study of village sketches (a type of fiction popular in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s) provides a valuable summary of sketches that portray the community as homogeneous and fixed, but it ignores those by women writers, which typically depicted the diversity that increasingly characterized actual village communities at that time. These women's geographical mobility was restricted (although women writers of the time were not uniformly circumscribed in this way), and their subject matter reflected this fact. Yet their texts were enriched by what Gilligan, writing in a different context, has called the ability to attend to voices other than one's own. To varying degrees, the women's sketches portray differences among community members: all stress differences among men and among women (particularly the latter) as well as differences between the sexes, and some also depict cultural diversity. These writers represent community as dynamic, as something that must be negotiated and renegotiated because of its members' divergent histories, positions, expectations, and beliefs.
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According to the passage, village sketches written by women in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s typically reflected
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Select the sentence in the passage that contrasts how men and women depicted life in village communities.
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The passage indicates that when Gilligan spoke of “the ability to attend to voices other than one's own,” she
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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The author of the passage implies which of the following about the members of the clergy mentioned in the first paragraph?
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Hospital, as presented in the passage, would probably agree with which of the following statements about Cuban-American writing?
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In the context in which it appears, “comfortable” most nearly means
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The author suggests that which of the following constitutes a potential disadvantage of using latent heat for energy storage?
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Exotic insect pests can produce both short-and long-term effects on forest ecosystems. Short-term effects include the disturbances directly associated with the action of the pest, which may cause the defoliation, loss of vigor, or death of trees. Long-term effects are primarily mediated by changes in tree species composition and the consequent alterations of forest structure, productivity, and nutrient uptake. Exotic pests are more efficient than most abiotic disturbances (e.g., fire or wind) at producing long-term changes in species composition. Pests often target specific tree species and, if they become established, they usually remain as permanent components of the ecosystem. Shifts in forest species composition ramify through the ecosystem in many ways because tree species have different, often unique properties.
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The passage mentions which of the following as effects of exotic pests on forest ecosystems?
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The author of the passage mentions the “unique properties” of tree species primarily in order to help explain
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