Darlene and her brother keith are both adults who live in the same large metropolitan area. research on gender similarities and differences suggests that darlene is likely to report her friendships with women are intimate and nurturing than her friendships with men. keith is likely to report that his friendships with men are intimate and nurturing than his friendships with women.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

When another customer complains about the hair salon where georgeanna is a loyal customer, she defends it because she feels responsible for the continued success of the hair salon. this behavior suggests she has reached the rung of the loyalty ladder.

The process of rocks breaking down and becoming other rocks