Raymond has just moved into a new neighborhood. this new neighborhood is full of people addicted to drugs who live in rundown houses in horrible condition. he often sees them struggling to find food on the street and shivering through the cold winter. when his friend asks him if he feels bad seeing these people suffer he replies, "good people don't end up that way, so i don't feel bad for them." raymond's attitude best illustrates the phenomenon.

Use the position statement you used earlier and the ideas you gathered, and write an editorial that is one paragraph in length. include your position statement and supporting ideas.

“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?

Nami conducts an investigation on plants. she places a grow light on a timer to give the plants different amounts of light to see if this would affect their growth. in this investigation, the amount of light is the .