Answer: “To persuade the colonies to declare independence”
Paine’s book “common sense” also served as inspiration to George Washington in later years
There is more than one way you can finish this sentence, as human cognition is not binary, but rather composed of overlapping, vague skills.
One way to finish it is to say simply: "thinks and learns", but you can go into more details:
-remembers
-processes information
-memorizes
-understands new information
This is basic biology. If a species of bird eats a particular species of plant seeds, then the bird proceeds to disperse or drop the seeds in new places through its fecal matter, the plant will continue to grow in new places and thrive.
If the species of bird is eaten or killed off by say a disease, there are no birds to spread the plant seed, therefore resulting in the death of the plant species