How does Gilman’s reasoning reflect her reaction to the social context in which she lived and wrote? Gilman was showing that “rest cures” prescribed by doctors really worked. Gilman was proving that without an education she wouldn’t have recovered. Gilman was challenging the status quo, as many early feminists did. Gilman was challenging the idea that domestic life causes depression.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

Besides the skull and cross bones what other shape sometimes appeared on flags flown by pirates?

What is the meaning of the word "caches" as it is used in paragraph 6