Which selection from an expository essay is most likely a thesis statement? A. Playing sports helps kids keep in shape and builds important life
skills like teamwork and dedication.
B. Another benefit of sports participation is that it teaches athletes
to try their best and to be good sports even when they don't win.
C. These life skills make athletes better people on and off the field.
D. At Ridge Run Middle School, 93 percent of student athletes say
that they want to play sports again next year.

the answer is:

b) to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry.

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the answer is c. the wind

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human