1) The aging of our population will have far-reaching implications for what life will be like in the years to come. (2) For one thing, society will need to provide many support services to the frail elderly, because many of them will have outlived their savings and will not be able to pay for their own care. (3) Moreover, as the over-65 population becomes more influential at the polls and in the marketplace, we're likely to see changes in governmental programs, in television programming, in new products, in housing patterns, in population shifts from state to state, and so forth. (4) The effects of this change are virtually infinite. The main patterns of organization of the selection are

A definition-example and time order
B list of items and cause-effect
C comparison and time order.

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why does puck transform bottom? a. to disrupt the play. c. to scare the mechanicals. b. for revenge on theseus. d. to scare the lovers.

Which poems include the theme that memories of beautiful natural places benefit the people who recall them? "to spring" and "lines written in early spring" "to autumn" and "to a butterfly" "to summer" and "the human seasons" "i wandered lonely as a cloud" and "lines on a beautiful spring in a village"

Which two lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? each choice is in brackets. [an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.] [“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”] [“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.] [i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”] [“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”] [it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”]