Those people who made up the Beat Generation had as their philosophy a belief in the communist ideal.
a strong attachment to Buddhism.
O a rejection of socially prescribed roles and socially approved forms of behavior.
one which rejected self-gratification.

it foreshadows the theme of the paragraph and hints the topic that will be discussed in the paragraph!

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation:

wait history, who want to talk about history, boring.

study of past cultures