Sidney has been a teacher for 23 years. He has been feeling trapped in "this life" for the last five years and finds his teaching efforts unappreciated and poorly compensated. So, in the middle of the semester, he quits his job, divorces his wife, and moves to a large city to start over in a sales job. Erikson would say that Sidney was experiencing:

a. stagnation. b. isolation. c. despair. d. role confusion.

The correct answer is a. stagnation

Explanation:

Sidney was experiencing stagnation. According Erikson, stagnation refers to the inability to care for the other. It is produced by not having resolved crises from previous or current stages, which prevents the development and strengthening of the self, that is, individuals who, despite the success they may have achieved in their professions, feel that those goals are crumbling, leaving them a huge sense of personal emptiness, in addition the can have feelings of dissatisfaction, boredom, numbness and interpersonal impoverishment.

south, because if you took a map you would see texas is directly in the middle of east and west, but it is also downwards towards mexico, therefore it is south