Directions for questions 9-10: Select the correct thesis (main idea)  statement of each essay. 9. Which is the thesis for Stephan Thernstrom? A. A century ago, the United States celebrated the exploits of Columbus proudly. B. The 500th anniversary of 1492, by contrast, has touched off enormous controversy and endless political wrangling.     C. The story of the European discovery, invasion, and conquest of the Western Hemisphere- a process that began with Columbus in 1492-certainly is not all sweetness and light.     D.  The Columbus story, like every other momentous historical event, calls not for easy moralizing and finger pointing but for an appreciation of a complex clash of cultures that was crucial to the emergence of the modern world we inhabit.

Janaka’s two-year-old daughter is intellectually disordered due, in part, to a diet that included fish, bread, and dairy products. The most likely diagnosis for Janaka’s daughter is that she has

10. Identify the thesis (main idea) for Kirkpatrick Sale A. Colon was nothing more than a “businessman” describing resources for potential markets. B. On his first voyage Columbus found himself in the middle of an old-growth tropical forest the likes of which he could not have imagined before, its trees reaching sixty or seventy feet into the sky, more varieties than he knew how to count much less name, exhibiting a lushness that stood in sharp contrast t the sparse and denuded lands he hand known in the Mediterranean, hearing a melodious multiplicity of bird sons an parrot calls-why was it not an occasion of wonder, excitement, and the sheer joy at nature in its full arrogant abundance?  C. One measure that Colon could make, and did so frequently, was the utilitarian: if he was not up to describing natural beauty or distinguishing trees, he was a master at determining the potential use and value of all that he saw, whether aloes, mastic, spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, dyes, or medicines, or gold and silver and pearls- it hardly mattered as long as it could be sold in Europe.  

Biology is the study of matter. 

Each element has a unique number of neutrons. 

A hydrogen bond is a weak bond that holds atoms slightly together. 

Physicians are currently able to correct spina bifida at around the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy using

monosaccharides are classified based on 

DNA is short for _______________ acid.

the sign (positive or negative) of a correlation coefficient is based on whether