Read the excerpt from "self-reliance," by ralph waldo emerson. society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. the virtue in most request is conformity. self-reliance is its aversion. based on the excerpt, what is emerson’s view of the relationship between society and individuals? society people feel more free. society protects people’s rights. society pushes people to be more unique. society encourages people to be alike.

D. Society encourages people to be more alike. Reply to me if I'm wrong. The theme of the excerpt seems to me to be that society should be working together, as a whole.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

in my opinion, ap calculus was the most difficult. i often struggled with it a lot. however, i have gotten a lot better.