Which statement best describes Emerson’s opinion of communities, according to the first paragraph of Society and Solitude? a. Regardless of how tightly bound communities may seem, each person is ultimately alone.
b. Communities are important for the well-being of the individuals that comprise them.
c. People live in communities for the purpose of friendship, but nothing else is gained from them.
d. Communities are the foundation of human society, and without them people would perish.

Which of the following selections is least useful for supporting the claim that states intentionally built unequal school systems? question 1 options: the supreme court ruling in plessy v. ferguson (1896) wrote into law that america had two separate societies: one black and one white. it was very clear by the mid-1900s that southern states had expertly built separate educational systems. these schools, however, were never equal. states with laws keeping schools segregated never gave equal amounts of money to their black and white schools. ten years after brown, fewer than 10 percent of southern public schools had integrated. some areas did not comply at all.