I think that the only statement that is true regardless of the context is this one: <span>If your response contains criticism, it may be best to wait a little while before responding.
If you wait a little, you can think over how to explain your criticism best.</span>
It would be the fifteenth amendment. As you may know, the fifteen amendment was passed, and it prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Why do we still say it didn't make suffrage universal? Because if you were a woman, you were still not allowed to vote. Not until the 19th amendment
D, because of the topic sentence "consists of everyday items we use and then throw away" which supports recycling and composting help reduce waste