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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.2 Reading Skills. Choose the best answer to the question: What effect does the author achieve by naming the hospital the "Maryland Private Hospital for Ladies and Gentlemen"?
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Sorry No and here's your shmoop du jour brought to
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you by all the cool stuff only rich people get
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They have private island shaped like doughnuts All right we're
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reading Other better same button thank you All right well
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what effect is the author achieved by naming the hospital
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the maryland private hospital for ladies and gentlemen what effect
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All right and the answers are Thank you Name convention
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in the morning All right we're done Okay well mr
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and mrs button we're kind of the original hipsters As
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the narrator points out of the beginning of the story
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they were having their baby in the hospital before it
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was cool Well these were wealthy and fashionable people They
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drove the fastest carriage and on lee bought the latest
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telegrams So what's the purpose of giving the hospital this
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uppercrust title Well it isn't to suggest that it was
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founded by english aristocrats or to let us know that
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maryland also had public hospitals although we kind of hoped
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they did And we're hopeful at the hospital Staff do
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treat their patients with respect but that's not the effect
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fitzgerald's going for with the title what's important is that
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this hospital is cool even classy a private place only
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for ladies and gentlemen because that's the only place that
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could cut it for the upscale buttons Unless of course
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it was hospital that had its very own private donut
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shaped island And well yeah that would be pretty cool
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