What is the central idea of this passage? many people are interested in what teen-agers have to say. officials from clothing companies and others go to marketing conferences. companies want to learn about how teen-agers spend money. teen-agers spend billions of dollars a year.

This passage is mostly based on how teenagers think of clothes and how much money they spend. This is actually a bit a true fact. Teens will have more of an opinion based view on things more than kids or adults. What we see, we judge based on whether we like it or not.

Teenagers are a very important area to market things to.

in paragraph 6 of "sinners in the hands of an angry god" by jonathan edwards, he talks about how doing good things alone will not save men from going to hell because they're at the mercy of the will of god. "spiritual reform" provides men with a false sense of safety.

pandora was the poor unfortunate soul that was tricked into letting all of the evil of the world out of the pithos (any percy jackson fans out / box.