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Paraphrase the following passages.

1. Many workers no longer receive a paycheck. Instead, their

employers issue a plastic card that looks something like a credit

card. Each payday, the employee’s pay is made available

electronically through any ATM.

2. Though the custom of “giving away” the bride is strictly

symbolic now, among the ancient Romans it had a legal

purpose. A Roman patriarch literally owned a daughter for a

lifetime, even after she was married, unless he chose to
formally transfer her and her possessions to her husband. To

moderns, the ceremony may seem to symbolically exchange

one kind of bondage for another, but ancient Romans probably

saw it as liberating a daughter to live her own life as a married

woman.

Summarizing