Microeconomy Homework - 1744 Words

Microeconomics - Homework 1 - due 28th January Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question Tick off your answer in the table on page 7 – do not forget to write your name Economic concepts and reasoning 1) When the government chooses to increase public spending on domestic security, its choice ________. A) involves a tradeoff with other public services such as education, to allow more domestic security B) illustrates that scarcity does not always exist C) involves no tradeoff because domestic security is necessary D) primarily affects who gets the goods and services produced 2) Laura is a manager for HP. When Laura must decide whether to produce a few additional printers, she is choosing†¦show more content†¦Based on the table above, for country B, the opportunity cost of producing an additional unit of X is A) 4 units of Y per unit of X B) 2 units of Y per unit of X C) 3/2 units of Y per unit of X D) 1 unit of Y per unit of X 14) In the table above, country B is producing 4 units of X and 6 units of Y. For country B, the opportunity cost of producing an additional unit of Y is A) 1/2 unit of X per unit of Y B) 2/3 unit of X per unit of Y C) 2 units of X per unit of Y D) 3 units of X per unit of Y 15) Country A is producing 4 units of X and 8 units of Y; country B is producing 4 units of X and 6 units of Y. Based on the table above, the opportunity cost of producing more of A) good X is lower in country A B) good Y is lower in country A C) good X is the same for both countries D) good Y is the same for both countries Production Possibilities Frontier Questions 16 to 18

Catcher in the Rye, All Quiet on the Western Front, A...

The Search for Identity in Catcher in the Rye, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Separate Peace, Great Expectations, and Romeo and Juliet Adolescence is a time when everything weve ever known is being changed. Relationships, friends, thoughts, and other things that shape who we are become more awkward and confusing and are changed from what they have been in the past. Consequently, we will change also because all these things shape who we are. During a period of such change, its hard to know who we really are. Adolescence is the time when we find out who we truly are, but not until we know who we arent. Adolescents use common words, actions, and rivalries to try to define their unique personalities, goals, and ideas. They label†¦show more content†¦It may seem as though he has no direction in life (Salinger 59), but the direction he is taking is simply a confusing and ever-changing one that all adolescents must take. This is a journey you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up (Salinger 88) and although it looks as though Holden is walking aimlessly back and forth between personalities, he is walking b ack and forth between them trying to find the one that describes him as perfectly as possible. This idea of labeling is especially evident in war, where soldiers carry a literal declaration of who they are with them everywhere in the color of their uniform and flag. Paul, of All Quiet on the Western Front, enlists in the war because he thinks that it will give him a purpose and a clear definition of himself that he and everyone else can understand. Being adolescents, he and his classmates and then war comrades have lives that had as yet taken no root (Remarque 20), and the war seems like a worthwhile place to plant themselves. The problem with this decision is that the soil war grows out of is thin, rocky, and uncertain. Coming right from high school and their parents supervision, they dont know how to grow straight without a guide, nor do they have a background which is so strong that the war cannot obliterate it (Remarque 20) like the older men. Caught with one leg stepping over the great chasm that lies between

Reading Response

Question: How language and culture can contribute to the enhancement? Answer: Richard Rodriguezs memoir, Aria, is a reflective narration in which the author recalls the days in which he was faced with dilemmas related to his own social and cultural existence. Going through the memoir a reader can feel the pain of an individual who was lost in the sphere of bilingual identity. How language and culture can contribute to the enhancement or deterioration of a persons social identity and his/her feeling of belonging have been thoroughly reflected by the memoir. The memoir is an explicit depiction of the crisis which is often faced by ESL learners in the context of the American social and educational system. Those whose native language is not English, but have to go through an academic process in which the foreign language, English, dominates almost each and every sphere, are the ones who know how language can bring about social and cultural barriers, hindering the overall development of an individual. The problems, which can be faced by a child conversant in a native language other than English while trying to cope with an academic and social regime (dominated by the English language), have been thoroughly depicted in that section of the memoir in which Rodriguez states that, During those years when I was first conscious of hearing, my mother and father addressed me only in Spanish; in Spanish I learned to reply. By contrast, English (ingles), rarely heard in the house, was the language I came to associate with gringos (Rodriguez). This par ticular section explicitly brings before the eyes of the readers the central theme of the memoir the struggle of a non-English speaking child in the context of growing up and adapting to a culture in which English language is the common means of communication. Rodriguezs memoir has pointed to the fact that, quite often the cultural background of an individual with all its linguistic aspects determines whether that individual is going to experience a prosperous life in an alien society, or is going to experience isolation that can be attributed to social rejection. Works Cited Rodriguez, Richard. "Aria: A Memoir Of A Bilingual Childhood". Web. 26 Jan. 2016.