Read the following paragraph from the section "Beyond Offering A Cup Of Sugar."
To Marc Dunkelman, author of "The Vanishing Neighbor," these neighborly responses to the coronavirus crisis are notable in their contrast to normal times. Most people's acquaintances resemble a model like the rings of Saturn, with the innermost bands representing the most intimate connections and each successive loop becoming less intimate. Over the past 50 years, people have invested more time on the innermost ring of friends and family. People have also invested more time in the outermost rings with online acquaintances they don't know personally but with whom they share common interests such as sports, hobbies or politics.

Which idea is BEST supported by this paragraph?

Group of answer choices

A People need to help vulnerable members within their community during times of global crisis.

B The number of intimate friends that most people have has decreased in the last 50 years.

C The different levels of social circles have increased as people have become more connected.

D Technology has changed the way in which people interact within certain social circles

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion