Read the thesis statement below and answer the question that follows. high school graduates should be required to take off time before entering college how can this thesis statement be improved?

a. high school graduates should be required to take off time to pursue community service projects before entering college.
b. high school graduates should be required to take off one year to pursue community service projects like cleaning trash, teaching at an at-risk school, and building homes for the poor before entering college.
c. high school graduates should be required to take off time to learn about the real world before entering college.
d. high school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

Nthe final analysis, the government has not done enough to protect the endangered species of the rain forest. in the passage above, the transition in the final analysis is used to

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.