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Three mixed-race girls are torn brutally from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away to a training camp for domestic workers as part of a government policy to integrate them into white society. Linking the camp and their distant home territory is a vast rabbit-proof fence, which stretches from one coast to another and just might help the girls find their way back.
An independent clause can stand on its own - it does not have to be supplemented with other elements of a sentence in order for it to exist, unlike with a dependent clause, which cannot exist on its own.
Here, the independent clause is What would happen if love didn't die?, whereas the dependent clause is <em>if the poem is about going mad when love is lost.</em>
The best answer is A) <span>after selecting a topic as a means of getting general information
An encyclopedia entry, or Wikipedia article, is a great resource for getting general information on a topic. You probably won't be able to use to too extensively for citations or for an in-depth understanding of your topic, but you will get a broad survey which can help you to decide if you want to write about it and to have a general idea of it. </span>
