Which choice is a controlling idea?

a) you should avoid pet fur to avoid asthma attacks.
b) you should avoid things that trigger an asthma attack.
c) you should learn how to perform spirometry to control asthma.
d) long-term control medicines for asthma are better than quick-relief medicines.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

can you give us the options