For #7 the answer is C.
For #8 the answer is B.
For #9 I believe the answer is D.
Chesterton explains how Thomas Aquinas was way ahead of his time in understanding what it means to be human and had a developed a great sense for ontology. He would argue that there are many of his own contemporaries that think and develop their ideas just like Aquinas did. You can use this as a starting point and develop your essay.
Steve Jobs always focused on motivating the graduates to follow their passion and what they truly love.
<u>Explanation:</u>
In Stanford Commencement Address, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of apple gives and philosophical and psychological speech to the graduates motivating them to follow their passion and their dreams for their life's greatest success and happiness.
He uses rhetorical devices to develop and present in the most persuasive way and indeed the speech becomes more of an answer that is worthy enough to change a person's life.
He gives hope and assurance for all the struggles one faces and justifies how one is already judged and the worst could turn out to be the best. Jobs indeed makes a great impact in the graduates giving out the right words.
The correct option is A.
Literally, to be inflexible means to be quite unwilling to change or to compromise. An inflexible person will not be ready to bend or be flexible in any way. To have a stone of heart means that the person is inflexible. Because of the nature of stone, a stone will remain a stone forever, it can not be changed, thus, to have a heart of stone is to be unchangeable, inflexible, uncompromising.