Which of the following actions is the best example of synthesizing information to create a new meaning? a) defining previously unknown information based on context clues b) believing one perspective, but changing one’s mind after reading contrasting reports c) explaining a process d) filling in gaps by using educated guesses

Ahaha, NO. the answer is actually B) Believing one perspective, but changing one's mind after reading contrasting reports

Explanation:

I almost believed first answer. Because I too was looking for an answer to this question. The replies to her answer said thank you and I thought they must have got it right too. But for some reason that answer didn't sit right with me. So I went back, I looked in the passage, and it just couldn't be D. It couldn't. I'm not gonna get into some mini lesson about why the answer is B, because here, all that matters is that you're getting the answer right. I switched my answer to B, waiting with anxiety knowing I was most likely going to get it wrong and regret switching my answers, but what do you know, I got a 100%. The answer is B. If I got it right, so can you. That other girl is WRONG.

Yea the answer Is B. believing one perspective, but changing one’s mind after reading contrasting reports

Explanation:

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran