What's the overall claim in "Mandatory Service to Become an Adult" By Michael Thompson "I am more concerned with the issue of maturity than I am with the technical age of [an adult].
Researchers and observers have noted that while our children are getting brighter (I. Q. scores
have been going up for the last two decades), they are relatively immature for their ages in
comparison to earlier generations. Over-protected by their parents and spending vast amounts
of time in front of TV, computers and cellphones (over 50 hours a week by middle
adolescence, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), they are less skilled in the world, less
able to build friendships and function in groups, and more reliant on their parents..."

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.