Based on the paragraph, if the topic is eye contact, what can you imply is the controlling idea? Eye contact, also referred to as gaze, is how—and how much—we look at people with whom we are communicating. Its presence shows that we are paying attention. In addition, how we look at a person reveals a range of emotions such as affection, anger, or fear. Moreover, intensity of eye contact may also be used to show dominance. For instance, we talk of someone “staring another person down.” Finally, through our eye contact we can check the effect of our communication. By maintaining our eye contact, we can tell when or whether people are paying attention to us, when people are involved in what we are saying, and what their feelings are about what we are saying.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?