On a unit test
read the excerpt from we shall not be moved.
which best states the author's purpose for including
information about the appearance of the striking workers in
the text?
many of the workers were still penniless from the dull
summer season, and had never bought warm clothes.
they wore short little jackets or sweaters, their best
shirtwaists, and their largest hats, those with the most
elaborate decorations. they thought of themselves as
representing their union to the rest of the world, therefore a
good appearance was important. so they marched in twos
and threes, shivering, and holding their signs aloft.
a)to show the pride the workers had in their union
b)to show the irresponsibility of the workers in the union
c)to show the workers' interest in fashion trends
d)to show the workers inability to get weather information

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

it about a duaghter

explanation: sorry thats all i could give i cant see the passage really