Which of the following does not illustrate an effective way of coping with a major frustration? a. cameron loved cars, but realizing he wasn't performing well as a car salesman, he persevered until he landed work as an apprentice mechanic. b. leslie loved clothes and hoped to become a designer, so she quit her job at the convenience store and moved back to her parent's home in arizona. c. tired of the long hours and low pay of his job at burgers-r-us, robert began night classes in bookkeeping. d. natalie wasn't getting ahead in her social service job and felt she wasn't serving her latino clients well, so she became a student of spanish

B. Leslie loved clothes and hoped to become a designer, so she quit her job at the convenience store and moved back to her parent's home in Arizona.

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

(4) "oh, i've got better plans than that," laughed kerry. "i've got four firecrackers and two model rockets. care to join me in the backyard? "

this is the correct answer because of one simple word. "backyard"