When you join to independent clauses with a conjunction you stablishes the equality in this clauses, however in this case you can see that the clauses have a causal relation, it could be said If you don’t hold my hand, I will drown, in this case the best conjunction to put the clauses together is “or” “Hold my hand or I will drown.”
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The one you selected is correct.
(Education is the best path to freedom because once a person has been educated, nothing can take that from them.)
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Scout believes that the world is ending because it is snowing and she has never seen snow before.
Jem and scout ran out of snow so they used mud as well.