At first it almost seems to inform you but then it says they make wonderful pets.
So the answer I believe is "to persuade"
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Education and training helps to open doors to many different job opportunities. While college is not for everyone, there are different training programs where you can earn special certificates and licenses to set you apart from other people. The entire point is to make a living where all of your needs are met. Simply having a high school diploma only makes you eligible for bare minimum jobs where you are completing against several others. Yes, you are often able to work your way up the ladder if you are a hard worker, but that could take years. In order to have more options and a future where you are earning more money than minimum wage.
D.the newscasters on channel 20 seems very friendly
The sentence that best reveals the context is: "With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right."
By reading "...the end of the cold war...", the reader infers the time the story is set in. The Cold War started after the Second World War (1945) and ended in 1991 with the end of the Soviet Union.
In addition, by reading "...the left side of the hyphen - African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American - would overwhelm the right", readers can deduce that the author is referring to the US and its fear of loosing a sense of nationalism and unity among its diverse population.
In all, the setting is the US in the early 90's because of the reference to the end of the Cold War and the fear of not being unified anymore.
