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(1) in the 1890s, most americans were struggling to reach a middle-class lifestyle. (2) by the 1990s, in contrast, an overwhelming majority had achieved the middle class but were either losing it or struggling to hold on to it. (3) in the 1890s, government responded to the prodding of reform-minded citizens and began to create a framework of rules to control the excesses of giant businesses and to protect the interests of the average citizen. (4) but in the 1990s, that framework of controls on large corporations was being dismantled.

click on the pattern of organization of the passage.

a. definition and example

b. comparison and/or contrast

c. cause and effect

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians