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

Probably D. It is a pretty vague fact that you can give lots of information on, you dont wont to give all your information in the thesis, but you want it to catch your readers attention.

bad answer your dumb

explanation:

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)