(1) Children were an important part of the labor force duri…
(1) Children were an important part of the labor force during the nineteenth century. (2) One of the most unpleasant and dangerous jobs performed by children in the 1800s was chimney sweeping. (3) Employed heavily in England, “chimney sweeps”—kids as young as four or five—were sent crawling up 14 inch chimneys to remove soot and ash deposits by hand. (4) Since the chimney surfaces were generally smooth inside, only the pressure of the children’s elbows and knees kept the small boys up. (5) The black soot and ash got into cuts and scrapes caused by climbing the dark chimney shafts. (6) It also filled the lungs of children forced to do the work—causing respiratory diseases, and in some cases, death. (7) To force children to work, older boys were often employed to hold lighted straws or sharp pins to the feet of the sweeps to “encourage” them to climb higher.
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(1)Stereotyping consists of assigning traits to people solely on the basis of a category. (2)Some researchers suggest that stereotyping has four clear phases. (3)First, a person distinguishes a particular category of people—for example, economists. (4)Second, the person notes that one or more of the people in this category have certain traits—for example, dullness. (5)Third, the person generalizes that everyone in this category has these characteristics—for example, that all economists are dull. (6)Finally, when meeting someone the person is not acquainted with but knows to be, for example, an economist, the person stereotypes this individual as dull. In general, the major supporting details of this paragraph are_____
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(1)Burn injuries are classified in three categories, according to their severity. (2)First-degree burns are burns that leave a painful red mark but do not break the skin, and thus they do not often become infected. (3)Burns that are classified as second-degree burn through the skin, which develops blisters. (4)Second-degree burns are often extremely painful, and, since the skin has been broken, they may become infected. (5)In a third-degree burn, both the outer and lower layers of skin are burned. (6)There may be little pain because nerve endings have been destroyed. (7)Because so much of the skin’s protection has been lost, the possibility of serious, even fatal infection is great with a third-degree burn. The major supporting details of this paragraph are____
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