The values that were typical of Robert Louis Stevenson's age were the honor and morality of one's self and one's family. An individual must never do anything that would diminish reputation but strive to maintain it or better it. Individuals were to be characters of good moral standing. There was a firm belief in the upkeep of outward appearances of dignity and restrain. Individuals were also supposed to uphold the law above all else, except God. In the middle classes, the idea of self-made men and entrepreneurship was born and this fostered the "American Dream".
Answer:
C “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.” ( Paragraph 4)
Explanation:
The question refers to Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay "Self-Reliance".
The main idea in this essay could be regarded as the necessity not to fall into society's mold which will make bunch of people whose thoughts and views will be the same, as is expected of them. People shoud act upon their own free will, learn to think for themselves instead of blindly following others. All of these are features of non-conformists, as Emerson calls them.
The best supporting sentence to this idea would be answer C. It suggests that the real man must be non-conformist with a personal integrity and a head that thinks on its own.
The first one because barren means empty, dead. A museum isn’t barren or empty, neither is a bustling city or farm land.
Parallel structure is using the same pattern of words or using the same grammatical form. The answer is C because "report", "broadcast", and "interview" are all similar (same pattern of words).
For example in answer choice D, "interviewed" is past tense and breaks the use of the same pattern of words. "Report" and "broadcast" are both similar and in present tense. Therefore why this answer doesn't work.
