Which is an example of irony? a. a firefighter rushes into a blazing house to rescue a cat and barely survives the ordeal. b. a woman predicts that the baby she's carrying will be a boy, but the baby turns out to be a girl. c. a man challenges another man to a duel, but only one of the men shows up to the duel. d. a boy who is angry at his parent, slips into an alley to avoid his mother and runs right into his father?

In 1914, alabama produced 1.7 million bales of cotton, but three years later produced only 515,000, bales. meanwhile, in georgia, 5.2 million acres of land was dedicated for cotton production in 1914, but by 1923 there were just 2.6 million acres used for growing cotton. all of this was the result of the work of a tiny insect: the boll weevil. alabama and georgia first felt the effects of the boll weevil at different times. what would account for this difference in timing?