Answer:
The children were cold and had not eaten
Explanation:
Nowhere in this excerpt has there mentioned a father leaving the family. The family that brought the gifts was not described as pitying the poor family. The excerpt doesn't say that the woman would soon die from her illness.
In situations like this, don't assume something that the passage didn't say.
It’s comparing the difference in water and the water life in the gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi flood waters
Plagiarism is taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
The forms are Direct, Self, Mosaic, Accidental, and paraphrasing plagiarism.
It is such a serious defense because it is a copy of someone else’s work without credit and if you’re faking it as your own, there is big consequences.
The answer is:
Colon, Semicolon, or a Dash.