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which is the best thesis statement for a paper of two or three pages?

(a) more and more people are quitting smoking because it's bad for your health

(b) the main reason people are quitting smoking are that it increases the risk of lung cancer, its offensive to others and it's very expensive

(c) there are many reasons why people fail when they attempt to quit smoking

(d) smoking is a health epidemic in the united states of america and people need to realize that quitting smoking is essential to good health

B

It lists the different topics of each paragraph and summarizes the paper well.

The best thesis statement to introduce your argument would be answer choice B

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answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.