What is the best description of the phrase the glass ceiling

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Answer: A glass ceiling is when you can't progress or advance further up the rungs in your job because of something like race or gender. This represents a glass ceiling because you can't go higher than that, but it shouldn't exist since it is after all glass.

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Answer and explanation:

Since this is not a multiple-choice question, I'll provide you directly with an answer that is also an explanation of the term "glass ceiling".

The phrase "glass ceiling" is used to refer to a barrier that is physically invisible, yet real, a barrier that prevents people belonging to a certain demographic to achieve higher positions - to climb up the corporate ladder. The people affected by a "glass ceiling" are minorities -- women, immigrants, African Americans etc. An example with the phrase is as follows:

- You would think things would be better by now. But the company where Joan works still has a glass ceiling... It looks like she'll never get to CEO.

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The police say there is no hope to find the stolen painting as far as the robbery of case was reported too late, and too much time was wasted.
Answers A - The police say there is no hope
B - to find the stolen painting
C - the robbery of case
D - much time was wasted

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From the given sentence, the expression that should be changed in order to correct the sentence is, "the robbery of case". The answer is option C. The correct expression should be "the case of robbery" or "robbery case". The word "robbery" is a specific form of case. So the correct sentence should be, "The police say there is no hope to find the stolen painting as far as the case of robbery was reported too late, and too much time was wasted."

Which parts of this passage from Beowulf indicate that the poem is about war and glory? ( It can be more than one answer!) Please help! A. Glory through splendid achievements
B. How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle.
C. Since first he found him friendless and wretched
D. The earl had had terror
E. Waxed ’neath the welkin, world-honor gained
F. Bow to his bidding and bring him their tribute
G. Whom God-Father sent to solace the people

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A. B. D. All I can find I am only in middle school so...

Answer:

A.) Glory through splendid achievements

B.) How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle

E.) Waxed ’neath the welkin, world-honor gained

Incorrect:

D.) The earl had had terror: comfort he got for it

What kind of literary device is: "Being but heavy, I will bear the light"? from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

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I think it's a pun (basically a joke that is related to a specific word, like its meaning or sound) - because it's wordplay about light vs heavy

Identify the inflection of the verb mixed.

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The inflection of the verb Mixed is ed. Mix + ed
In third person singular present the inflection is es. Mix + es

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Proper nouns should ALWAYS be capitalized.

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from James Joyce's "The Dead"?

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling.

If this is the sentence, then personification is used as a figurative language.

Personification is giving human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects.

Soul and snow are inanimate objects. They were given human characteristics "swooned" and "faintly"

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