Read the article below and answer the following question: which sentence from the passage most likely indicates a bias on the part of the writer? the national college football championship this year will be no contest! the springfield kings are going to easily defeat the jamestown spartans this saturday. the kings won the championship last year and won more games than the spartans this year. even president obama and former president bush can agree on this; they both predicted that the kings would win. as the mother of the kings' two best players, i have to agree. nobody can stop this team!

The correct answer is:  

As the mother of the Kings' two best players, I have to agree.  

A bias means to be one-sided, lacking a neutral viewpoint. It´s a disproportionate weight in support of or opposite something, a person, or group faced with another, normally in a way deemed to be unfair. Biases can be acquired implicitly in certain cultural contexts, or such as in this case, develop due to private interests or closeness to on side or the other.  

the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.