What idea is emphasized by the connotations of the underlined words?

D. Women can change their circumstances by making different decisions.

Explanation:

The two rate were placed in a cage and then fed different types of milk. One rat got ordinary milk and ended up being furtive, timid and small and the one that got grade A milk was glossy, bold and big.

The connotation here in relation to women is that if women want to change their circumstances and relatively become like the bigger and bolder rat, they should make different decisions that will get them better opportunities like the grade A milk that the bigger rat got.

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war