Some people cannot imagine how anyone survived in a world without smartphones and ipods. the world before electronic devices, they imagine, must have been one long bore. yet people who spend every waking minute looking at a screen forget that the world somehow functioned quite fine without little devices in every hand and pocket. before the advent of apple, sometimes people would hold conversations with one another and sometimes you would find them not staring at a screen, but at an actual page in a real-life book.

which sentence best concludes this paragraph?
a) yet the development of electronic devices has indeed been a wonderful invention of modern times.
b) we are not solely dependent upon electronics to make it through the day, boredom can be conquered in many ways.
c) i haven't even mentioned how many people can be found playing with hand-held game devices like psp's and nintendo dsi's.
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d) people who have their ear-buds plugged in can't hear the world around them--not even if it's warning them of coming danger.

Use the drop-down menus and your knowledge of suffixes to choose the correct word for each sentence. the searched for artifacts in a field. during the civil war, the country found itself in a state of near he was when he learned that the director had given the role to another actor.

Which trait is used to evaluate a writer's opinion and purpose? a. voice b. ideas and content c. organization d. conventions a. voice

What argument does thomas jefferson make in this excerpt from the declaration of independence? we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.-that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. a. b. c. the american colonists desire a more peaceful alliance with great britain but their british counterparts do not. the american colonists have a right to seek freedom from great britain due to the continued oppression of their basic rights. the american colonies could form a better government than the one established by great britain to govern them. the king of britain and the members of british parliament have little interest in the welfare of the colonies. od. e. the american colonies should have sufficient representation in british parliament if america and great britain are to coexist peacefully.