Read this excerpt from a concluding paragraph Jason has drafted from his research outline on the hazards of playing football and answer the question. (10)Currently, the best way to prevent concussions is to wear anti-concussion helmets. (11)If the NFL cares about its players and their safety, it will mandate that every player wear an anti-concussion helmet during every practice and for every game. (12) By showing its support of these protective helmets, the NFL will be encouraging the manufacturers to further improve them.

Which sentences, if added after sentence 12, would provide the most effective conclusion to support the author’s argument?

(13)Fans of the sport cannot continue to support a practice that leads to over 150 concussions every season. (14)Please consider a sound solution. (15)Support the mandatory use of anti-concussion helmets.
(13)If the NFL approves the regulation, it will demonstrate its commitment to the future of its players. (14)It’s about time that we all pull together and offer athletes more than "atta-boys" for the risks they take to entertain us. (15)After all, haven’t we moved past the time of gladiators?
(13)Although NFL players receive generous salaries, injured players can no longer fulfill their contracts. (14)Often the effects of concussions prove to be more serious at later points in a player’s life. 15)It’s time for fans to assist players by supporting the regulated use of improved safety helmets.
(13)Will the availability of improved safety helmets guarantee that they will be used? (14) No, because many may think it fosters a less masculine image of physical strength. (15)By regulating their use, however, every player has a better option for his future.

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.