What is the central idea of this passage?
Thomas Edison changed the world with his
Inventions, such as the first motion picture.
Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the light
bulb, but he just made it more practical.
Even though one of Edison's Inventions failed, he
never stopped trying out new ideas.
Edison's vocal engine was meant to use sound
waves from the human voice to produce energy

The central idea is about Thomas Edison's inventions and how they had changed the world as the whole paragraph describes all the inventions of Edison. We can also find the main point of the paragraph by looking at the first sentence, "Thomas Edison changed the world with his Inventions"

for me, doing projects and performance tasks.

explanation:

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).