In 1997, a few members of Heaven's Gate, a religious cult, bought a telescope to view a comet. They returned the telescope a few days later and said that it was faulty because there was no spaceship behind the comet. This action:

This action appears to be consistent with the theory of cognitive dissonance because there is an expression of bias for the belief that the telescope should have showed a spaceship.

Explanation:

As this is also conflicting with the original intent behind the purchase of the telescope which was to simply view a comet, it expresses a contradiction in belief of the purchasers which signals this action to be consistent with the theory of cognitive dissonance.

swahili is an extremely rich and complex civilization, a set of ethnic groups articulated by a language and a series of cultural elements that fuse the african traditions, islam and indian culture. this growth was largely a result of the indian ocean trading network that brought in not just man-made riches, but also religious ideas, specifically islam, which had a significant impact on the local culture. furthermore, the development of the swahili language gave a common cultural unity to the people.

the correct answer is d