Read the thesis statement below and answer the question that follows. high school graduates should be required to take off time before entering college how can this thesis statement be improved?

a. high school graduates should be required to take off time to pursue community service projects before entering college.
b. high school graduates should be required to take off one year to pursue community service projects like cleaning trash, teaching at an at-risk school, and building homes for the poor before entering college.
c. high school graduates should be required to take off time to learn about the real world before entering college.
d. high school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Which type of characterization is used in the excerpt to reveal claire’s character traits? indirect, direct, both or neither

Which excerpt from the passage provides evidence of a chronological structure? o “slavery was abolished thirty years before the emancipation proclamation." "the sugar plantation owners were desperate." "so the british owners looked to another part of the empire." "thousands of men and women were given five-year contracts.