Which statement best represents the controlling idea of the paragraph? Do you watch TV commercials? According to the Television Research
Council, average teenagers will have spent 175,000 hours watching
over 350,000 commercials by the time they graduate from high school.
Now a new study has shown that watching commercials increases
behaviors linked to greed, selfishness, and irresponsibility. Due to
overexposure to advertisements, many teens may be making poor life
choices
O A. TV stations play too many commercials during teen programming
OB. Teens watch too much television and too many commercials,
C. The Television Research Council suggests limiting the amount of
TV a teen watches.
D. Commercials are having a negative effect on today's teens.

D. Commercials are having a negative effect on today's teens.

Explanation:

The main focus of the paragraph is talking about TV commercials and its effects on teens. It gives a statistic on how many commercials teens have watched before graduating. Then, it goes into stating things about its effects "...a new study has shown that watching commercials increases behaviors linked to greed, selfishness, and irresponsibility." This directly correlates to option D. It is showing how commercials persuade teens to make more "poor life choices."

A is incorrect because the paragraph is not directly addressing TV stations. There isn't even the word "stations" mentioned anywhere in the paragraph.

B is incorrect because even though this is true, the paragraph doesn't talk about how much TV teens watch, it talks about commercials. Even then, that is not what the paragraph is aiming at.

C is incorrect because nowhere did it say that The Television Research Council suggests to limit the amount of TV they watch. Once again, this isn't about TV, it is about commercials.

This leaves option D as the correct answer.

I hope this helps!!

- Kay :)

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)