Select the correct answer. what is the main idea conveyed in this excerpt from nick hornby's fever pitch? my parents were separated by 1968. my father had met someone else and moved out, and i lived with my mother and my sister in a small detached house in the home counties. this state of affairs was unremarkable enough in itself (although i cannot recall anyone else in my class with an absent parent - the sixties took another seven or eight years to travel the twenty-odd miles down the m4 from london), but the break-up had wounded all four of us in various ways, as break-ups are wont to do. there were, inevitably, a number of difficulties that arose from this new phase of family life, although the most crucial in this context was probably the most banal: the commonplace but nevertheless intractable one-parent saturday-afternoon-at the zoo problem. often dad was only able to visit us midweek; no one really wanted to stay in and watch tv, for obvious reasons, but on the other hand there wasn't really anywhere else a man could take two children under twelve. usually the three of us drove to a neighbouring town, or up to one of the airport hotels, where we sat in a cold and early-evening deserted restaurant, and where gill and i ate steak or chicken, one or the other, in more or less complete silence (children are not great dinner conversationalists, as a rule, and in any case we were used to eating with the 60 tv on), while dad watched. he must have been desperate to find something else to do with us, but the options in a commuter-belt town between 6.30 and 9.00 on a monday night were limited.

Society is constantly developing and changing, and people disagree about the progress of this development. do you believe that the world has changed for the better, or for the worse? in a multi-paragraph essay, support your answer to this question. reinforce your position with specific details and examples from readings and your own experience. as you write, remember your essay will be scored based on how well you: develop a multi-paragraph response to the assigned topic that clearly communicates your thesis to the audience. support your thesis with meaningful reasons and sufficient details. address the readers' concerns, opposing viewpoint, or counterarguments. organize your essay in a clear and logical manner, including an introduction, body, and conclusion. use well-structured sentences and language that are appropriate for your audience. edit your work to conform to the conventions of standard american english. < < read less shows like that show people that "hey, this is the ok way to react to any given situation." the worst part is the drama in these shows attracts the attention of our minds, idling ignorant people. it has impacted the outcome of house lives, relationships, and friendships. these kind of television shows make it seem alright if you act out. these people in these shows are paid to drink on a daily basis, and give us the exact drama that we are attracted to. domestic violence is increasing due to people not acknowledging that when you have a problem, it is best to sit down and talk about it rather then raise a fist or force a gun against someones head. television is a source of our violence increase but there are also some really demented people out there. people go around shooting up schools, killing innocent people, and degrading the world day by day word count: