The author calls the set of reforms in the first step act the “most substantial changes in a generation to the tough-on-crime prison and sentencing laws that ballooned the federal prison population and created a criminal justice system that many conservatives and liberals view as costly and unfair.” what makes these changes so substantial?

What makes the changes substantial is the fact that the Act is meant to reduce recidivism through the creation of programs to prevent so.Pregnant prisoners , according to the Act , can no longer be shacked and the young will not be held in solitary cofinement.Minumum sentences will be reduced and the number of people in jail will not be  as astounding as it is today.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

explanation:

margot’s silence imply? what will be her relationship with the other children from this point forward? remember, we read about how the most effective authors tap into the power of imagination. we have to use that imagination, and what we have learned about margot, her classmates, and their experiences