The incomes of middle- and working-class americans was dealt a severe blow during the 1980s. (2) a major reason was a decline in industrial jobs. (3) the economy became less devoted to manufacturing goods and more focused on providing services. (4) many manufacturing jobs, especially in the steel and auto industries, were transferred from the united states to third world countries. (5) as a result, millions of blue-collar workers in the midwest and northeast were stranded. (6) they were forced into much lower-paying jobs with fewer benefits and opportunities for advancement. the pattern of organization of the selection isa. definition and example.  b. cause and effect.  c. comparison and/or contrast. 

In the list below, which plot event appears out of order? setting rising action falling action climax resolution setting rising action falling action resolution

Read this excerpt from "we shall overcome." hundreds of thousands of people sang them. but sometimes, it was one lone person with a guitar. they sang in segregated bus stations, picket lines, freedom marches, concert stadiums, city squares, and videos. when injustice of oppression threatens, people sing protest songs to proclaim their resistance, publicize their cause, and encourage hope for a better future, based on this excerpt as an introductory paragraph, which of the following would you expect to read about in the article? different groups of people who were oppressed the ways that music brings diverse groups of people together similarities between historical movements that provided rights for groups of people different song styles throughout specific historical events

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)