Hello. This question is incomplete. The full question is:
In paragraph 1(Excerpt from A la Carte), what does the phrase “clattering nerve center of the restaurant” suggest?
A. messiness, chaos
B. energy, core
C. tension, anxiety
D. greatness, stability
Answer:
A. messiness, chaos
Explanation:
In the first paragraph, the narrator states that his mother was forcing him to leave the family restaurant to do his homework. However, this is the busiest time in the restaurant, which ends up creating a mess and a certain chaos that the narrator refers to as “clattering nerve center of the restaurant”. However, the narrator ends up obeying his mother and goes to an office to do his homework.
The article provides three causes of the decline in the number of children being born.
The first cause is the reduction of mortality. If fewer children die at their youngest age, parents naturally don't need to have more babies so that more of them would survive. Also, there isn't an emotional need to "fill the void" after the death of an infant. This is the so-called risk and mortality factor.
The second cause of fertility decline is the so-called economic-and-investment model, which means how wealthy the families are, and how capable they are of distributing resources among their children. For example, owing or not owing farmland was proved to be one of the very important factors in predicting the fertility rates in a society.
The third cause is the cultural transmission, that is, the transmission of the cultural model of small families with fewer children. This transmission happens via education. However, this conclusion is not enough; education is a bridge between the cultural transmission and economic-and-investment model, as it leads to better social and financial status.
1. What is the main idea of the text?
The Liberty Bell is an important landmark.
2. When was the Liberty Bell NOT rung?
at an important event in San Francisco
The things talked in paragraph 1 contributes to the central idea of the passage and implies that education would change an enslaved person's thinking.
Frederick Douglass was the son of a slave at Great House and Mrs. Auld, the mistress, was a very kind woman. Her husband said that teaching a slave would spoil the best of him because slaves only have to obey their masters. If they are taught they would change the way of thinking by making them useless for their master. Hope this helps.
What story is this from? If I got that then maybe I could help...
