3. Which thesis statement is specific and focused?
A. Most state tourism departments promote hiking trails in the natural
environment

B. One of my favorite activities is hiking in natural environments.

C. Because many Americans are overweight, more taxes should go to build hiking trails

D. Many people enjoy hiking.

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an argumentative essay presents objectively a topic and its main characteristics. besides, it states all this information and facts by giving authentic and substantiated proof to the audience. by contrast, a persuasive text purpose is to convince the audience about some facts by presenting them according to his/her emotions and feelings. the main purpose of a persuasive text is to convince the audience to agree with the author´s opinion. on the other hand, in the argumentative essay, the author leads the writer to recognize his/her point of view as the correct one.

i think that it is letter d.

one context clue that me find the meaning of luxuriance was that the base word of luxuriance is luxury, so i think that luxuriance means something that is luxury, or something luxurious.