Is this sentence a compound sentence, they spend most of their lives at sea, but they do come to shore for one purpose - to lay eggs.

Who dies in a duel because of his pride and his anger

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.

Which statement best describes the authors use of a claim and a counterclaim in the passage