The first paragraph is organized to heighten interest in the subject by A
first defining jellyfish as largely harmless, then describing a dramatic change in their
behavior
first suggesting political causes of an infrastructure failure, then revealing jellyfish as a
surprising agent of this event
first highlighting the dangers posed by jellyfish in the past, then enumerating new
problems they might cause in future
first establishing the setting of her story, then explaining why the appearance of jellyfish
in this setting was unexpected
first alluding to political strife in Manila, then explaining how the strife made the city's
infrastructure vulnerable to jellyfish