“Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni was a good man, and he was a very good mechanic. He was a man of the old school, who respected people and who knew what was right. There are not many men like him left.” (Chapter 8)

What is the overarching implied main idea of the entire passage?

PASSAGE 1: THE EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC SPACE (Questions 1–15) Modern cities are often praised as great examples of human engineering and social connection. However, behind the bright walls of glass and steel lies a more complicated story about the loss of real public spaces. In history, public areas—such as the open marketplaces in ancient Greece or traditional town squares—served as equal spaces where people from all social and economic backgrounds could meet, debate, and socialize. In modern city planning, however, these natural gathering areas are slowly being replaced by “pseudo-public spaces” (spaces that look public but are actually private).   Shopping malls, corporate plazas, and private indoor parks may copy the look of a traditional public square, but they are fundamentally private properties driven by strict business rules. In these areas, human behavior is carefully controlled. Activities that do not make money or that cause disruptions, such as giving out political flyers, hanging around without buying anything, or being homeless, are quickly stopped by private security guards. This shift to private ownership changes the social feel of the city. When human interaction is filtered through a business lens, city residents are viewed primarily as shoppers. As a result, poor or marginalized groups are intentionally kept out, which divides city communities even further.   Critics argue that this trend harms democracy itself. A healthy democratic society depends on unplanned meetings—accidental interactions with people from different backgrounds and with different viewpoints. When public spaces are cleaned up and privatized, individuals hide inside groups of people who are exactly like them. This reduces empathy and stops people from participating in community life. On the other hand, defenders of private development, who are funded by powerful real estate companies, completely ignore these warnings. They claim that anyone who opposes private city development simply wants our beautiful cities to fall apart into chaotic, crime-ridden, socialist communes. To fight against private ownership, a growing movement of city activists is asking for the return of public lands, demanding that cities prioritize open spaces that are free and open to everyone.

Instructions: Read the article below (you may read it 2–3 times) and make notes on the central idea and main points in your own words on your own blank paper. Write a brief outline of your points before you begin typing. When you are ready, type your single paragraph summary in the text box below. Proofread and revise to the best of your natural ability, then submit.   What An Insect Can Teach Us About Adapting To StressFebruary 22, 2019LIANA SIMSTROM, NPR YouTube What if we told you that you could learn a lot about handling adversity from the life of a bug? In their explorations of humans and how we interact with the world around us, the team that makes NPR’s Invisibilia stumbled on a surprising fact about the insect world — one that could inspire a new way of looking at ourselves. The epic destruction wrought by swarms of locusts is downright biblical. Exodus tells of a plague that left nothing green in all of Egypt, and we’ve seen these harbingers of destruction at work in modern day Australia, Argentina and Israel, just to name a few. But for centuries, one essential piece of information about these strange insects eluded scientists: Where do they come from? These massive swarms just seemed to pop up out of nowhere, decimate everything and then vanish. And then finally, in 1921, a scientist named Sir Boris Uvarov made a breakthrough about the source of the swarms. It turned out the horrible locusts were actually common grasshoppers that had undergone a biological metamorphosis. At first, scientists were skeptical because grasshoppers are known for being shy, solitary creatures. If they see another grasshopper for instance, “They actually run away from them,” says scientist Michael Anstey. But under stressful conditions, such as a drought for instance, the grasshoppers all have to crowd together to share the limited resources. As they’re trying to grab for the last bits of food, their big hind legs rub up against each other and it’s basically tickle torture. The rubbing together fuels the release of serotonin in their nervous system, which sets several things in motion. “There’s little stimuli, little hairs, on the hind legs which get triggered and that then starts this domino cascade of the behavioral change from the solitary [grasshopper] into the notorious swarming form,” says Anstey, who published research on desert locusts, one species that goes through these changes. Their wings grow bigger and they start flying around like crazy, they turn from green to black and yellow. They get aggressive and fearless, and incredibly social. In fact, according to Anstey, they are actively attracted to other locusts. And that’s how the swarms build. But why did it literally take centuries to figure out that these two creatures were actually the same creature? And why, even after the theory was proposed, did scientists resist it? Why was that such a hard idea to swallow? Maybe it’s because we can’t see that in ourselves. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor from Northeastern University, says people can be “experientially blind” when faced with a new image of themselves. They just can’t take it in. She says we often have such a rigid sense of self that when we’re presented with new concepts about ourselves — like, you think of yourself as a generous person and then someone tells you they actually think you’re kind of selfish — and our reaction is usually to reject it. “People will defend themselves or dig their heels in, keep their concepts intact. Or they’ll ignore,” she says. We like to think that we know who we are, and that we are one thing — one unified true self. But according to Barrett, social psychology research has shown that it’s not like that. “Who you are in a given moment is very much determined by the situation that you’re in,” Barrett says. So when you’re trying to handle some frank criticism or you’re struggling with something hard — or just really want to make a change in your life — Barrett says, you might want to embrace a more flexible self-image. If you are struggling in one role in life, your professional life for instance, you don’t pin your whole identity, your whole sense of self, on that role, she says. Instead, it helps to have “multiple views of yourself,” Barrett says. Realizing that you have “a vocabulary of selves” you can become, Barrett says, can be empowering. “It doesn’t allow other people to define who you are. You get to be the author of who you are. Your brain is the one that’s making the choices.” According to Barrett, “You aren’t who you are all the time. You are who you are in a given situation.” You might be a locust in one setting, and a grasshopper in another. The locusts, by the way, have embraced the idea. As soon as the drought is over, they go back to their own corners as their shy, solitary, bright green selves.   Type your one-paragraph summary below:

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