Even though he was only a third grader, Franklin knew that he wanted to grow up to be a film-maker. The moment he figured out ho
w to use his mother's smartphone to record videos, he began using the phone every minute of the day. His parents were seriously wondering if they might not better go ahead and just buy a video-recording device for Franklin. Franklin also liked to do a lot of other things in the summer too--play soccer, play video games, and just read. When he didn't have his mother's phone, Franklin would write out detailed ten-page scripts for his movies. Then he'd go out into the neighborhood and recruit his friends to be actors in his stories. Needless to say, Franklin never got bored in the summer. Which sentence could best be removed from this paragraph to clarify its ideas?
A) Needless to say, Franklin never got bored in the summer.
B) Franklin also liked to do a lot of other things in the summer too--play soccer, play video games, and just read.
C) His parents were seriously wondering if they might not better go ahead and just buy a video-recording device for Franklin.
D) The moment he figured out how to use his mother's smartphone to record videos, he began using the phone every minute of the day.
It only says "because she remembers collecting apple snails with her brothers when they were younger." The author could have written: "She feels nostalgic because she remembers her carefree days in the sun. There was nothing to contain her and her brothers once they ran across their lawn. They used find apple snails in their lawn. The bright sunshine made them easy to find in the jungle of weeds and green grass." to make it deeper but the author just wrote that "collecting apple snails with her brothers when they were younger."
New discoveries influence contemporary psychological perspectives because they provide new ways to look at things, or give new technology for new ways to diagnose problems and try to solve them.
