The incomes of middle- and working-class americans was dealt a severe blow during the 1980s. (2) a major reason was a decline in industrial jobs. (3) the economy became less devoted to manufacturing goods and more focused on providing services. (4) many manufacturing jobs, especially in the steel and auto industries, were transferred from the united states to third world countries. (5) as a result, millions of blue-collar workers in the midwest and northeast were stranded. (6) they were forced into much lower-paying jobs with fewer benefits and opportunities for advancement. the pattern of organization of the selection isa. definition and example.  b. cause and effect.  c. comparison and/or contrast. 

Below is the last stanza of a poem, "dover beach," written in 1876 by matthew arnold. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night. which of these statements best describes the remedy arnold proposes for the world? a. look to your dreams for answers to life's questions. b. our faith in each other can shelter us from deceptive chaos. c. in this deceptive world, ignorance requires faith. d. the world may end, but love conquers all.