The correct answer is B), 'evaluate and analyze'. When investigating something, it is important to first evaluate, or asses, the information you've been given, and then analyze the data, or examine and organize it. Answer choice A is incorrect because to synthesize something is to imitate it and answer choices C and D are incorrect because you should not look at something subjectively, such as when forming an opinion or connecting to a personal experience, when you are investigating it.
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In general, people cannot be trusted to be honest. Bias or motives can affect a message no matter how honest the source. The majority of the time, people are acting in their own best interest alone.
The narrator felt scared- surprised, in a bad way. This makes the readers interested, more interested how it ends, since you've got a good start.
This question is about "A Quilt of a Country"
Answer and Explanation:
Mario Cuomo's enigma was exposed to show how the USA imposes the concept of individualism on its growing population and encourages the adoption of this concept in all possible activities, however, in addition to being a defining concept of the American population, it is also a concept that is in constant conflict, thus creating a "social paradox", so to speak, because the nation that grew in an individualistic way, sees itself in various situations where it needs to work in the collectivity and in solidarity.
Within the text, Quindlen uses this concept of conflict between the collective and individualism as support for the argument that the USA is a multicultural nation, full of the most different ethnicities, but all this difference does not prevent the country made up of a single people that is subject to a single government.
The mode of persuasion "ethos" appeals to beliefs or ideals of a community and also an authority figure's character or credibility to influence individuals through morals.
In the famous play "Julius Caesar", Mark Anthony changed the opinion of the Romans by making them hate Brutus and the conspirators using "ethos" to put their credibility on the spot with irony and sarcasm when he repeatedly calls them "Honorable Men"; on the other hand he praise Caesar's loyalty to him when he calls him "His faithful friend", making people empathize with his character.
