You are writing an expository essay on the pros and cons for a new service hour requirement for graduating high school. which statement would be the best thesis for this piece of writing? a) can you believe that some schools are starting to require a certain number of service hours in order to graduate? b) some students work at food banks to meet the service hour requirement, while others choose to work at the humane society. c) melissa sweet woke up early on saturday morning in order to visit the local food bank and start earning her school's required service hours. d) some people are finding positive effects from requiring service hours to graduate from high school, while others are finding many negative effects.

The correct answer here is D) Some people are finding positive effects from requiring service hours to graduate from high school, while others are finding many negative effects

An expository essay must provide factual information about a given topic, and in this case the D statement introduces a text that will explain why some people are pro service hours and some people are against it.

the answer should be:

the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.