All of the following practices occur in utopia except select one: a. all citizens serve occasional two year shifts in the country farming the land b. public officials are elected c. men have fewer rights than women d. some people are turned into slaves

d. football allowed the narrator and his father to reconnect after his parents' divorce.

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader