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

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme