Today, young people have less contact with senior citizens than in years past. what a shame! one reason for this situation is that families often live far apart. in the past, aging family members were commonly cared for by their kids. as a result, grandkids and grandparents had more opportunity to spend time together. nowadays, senior citizens often live in assisted living communities when they need care. instead of their families taking care of them, medical professionals do. the result is that children have less opportunity to spend time with senior citizens. more importantly, children are denied the wisdom of their grandparents. grandparents also experience negative effects by this separation. they are being denied the company of youth. in turn, senior citizens can lose touch with the current world.

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which sentence from the paragraph best describes the main idea of the passage?

a.

"in the past, aging family members were commonly cared for by their kids."

b.

"nowadays, senior citizens often live in assisted living communities when they need care."

c.

"as a result, grandkids and grandparents had more opportunity to spend time together."

d.

"today, young people have less contact with senior citizens than in years past."

"Today, young people have less contact with senior citizens than in years past."

Explanation:

The main idea identifies what the passage is about. An author can write in order to express an opinion. Sometimes authors write to communicate important information. The main idea of this passage deals with the amount of time that young people and senior citizens spend together. More specifically, the author believes that the two age groups do not spend enough time together. The first sentence ("Today, young people have less contact with senior citizens than in years past.") best shows the main idea of the passage.

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.