What theme is best supported by this passage from my antonia? the country girls were considered a menace to the social order. their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background. but anxious mothers need have felt no alarm. they mistook the mettle of their sons. the respect for respectability was stronger than any desire in black hawk youth. tradition has a stronger pull than beauty. beauty is a stronger force than tradition. mothers have a very strong influence on their sons. country girls can have a dangerous influence.

c

explanation:

herodotus taught this. herodotus was an ancient greek historian who was born in halicarnassus in the persian empire. he is known for having written the book the histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the greco-persian wars.

he sent troops to protect the students as they entered the school.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.