<span>When deciding how honest to be about the role I had played in the situation, I kept thinking of my little brother and how he had the wisdom, even at his young age, to do what was right.</span>
        
             
        
        
        
Present tense: made, make, led, has, and will are all verbs.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
After a thorough research, there exists the same question with the paragraph.
<span>Both petroleum and coal are made up of complex carbon-based molecules, and both originated with living creatures of some kind. Both are vital sources of energy for the modern world and both were formed by geologic processes over millions of years. However, petroleum was mainly formed from the remains of ocean-dwelling microorganisms. Coal, on the other hand, originated from decayed vegetation in ancient swamps and bogs. In any case, it took millions of years for both coal and oil to be produced. This is the case because it took that much time for overlying sediments to produce the unimaginable heat and pressure that would one day allow us to harvest these energy resources.
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The paragraph uses 'Compare and Contrast' organization. It presented us the differences and similarities between coal and petroleum.