C. Was
It says "my parents or my older sister". The last subject stated is "my older sister" which is singular. And the only choice that's singular is 'was'. So that should be the answer.
Answer:
"Americans born in this country, changed by ...has always been committed..."
Explanation:
The reason why this is a use of an emotional appeal is that it focuses on the pride that Americans have and the strong connection they have to their country. Another appeal to emotion would be, "...we are the heirs of that first revolution." a sense of strong American pride is shown here as well because of the emotional appeal of perseverance against the odds to fight for what you believe in.
This is the correct statement:
Women who read and wrote too often were cast out of the home.
Explanation:
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf is one of the markedly feminist tracts of all time and it asserts an important point through the existence of this fictional sister of Shakespeare by asserting a fact.
It is that the women were simply not allowed to read and write in his time and no matter how hard she would have tried she would not have amounted to much in her life.
The system was against her education and her pursuit of a career thus.