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An independent clause is a sentence or part of one that can stand alone.
So I have a feeling that the first one is correct as "My sister and I love to cook" and "we spend hours cooking together" can both stand alone yet are joined by a semicolon.
I hope this has helped
Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever
4 they name ways that skin is important to the body’s health
I believe the correct answer is the last one - <span>There is sympathy and support for the children struggling to integrate schools.
The author is talking about an ad that a white man paid to be made so as to show people how cruel and inhumane they are to those people of a different skin color. He wanted to show his gratitude and surprise about how there are still people who want to fight for equality and who want to give every child an opportunity to have an education.
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