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Chapter 3: Understanding Scrooge's Transformation

Question Word Review

This chapter tests your understanding of key events. Can you answer these questions?

1. Where did the Ghost of Christmas Present first take Scrooge? Outside, into the cold, snowy streets.
2. Why did the spirit hold his torch over people’s heads? To inspire kindness and stop arguments.
3. Who held a special place in Bob Cratchit’s heart? Tiny Tim, his son.
4. Why was Mrs. Cratchit reluctant to toast Scrooge? She resented his meager wages and considered him a hateful man.
5. Who played a YES/NO game? Scrooge’s nephew, his family, and friends.
6. Who were the figures beneath the ghost’s robe? Two children, representing Want and Ignorance.

Character Analysis: Ebenezer Scrooge

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Essential Macroeconomics and Market Terms

Types of Unemployment and Labor Concepts

• Cyclical - fired because of economic cycles (laid off during downturns).
• Structural / Seasonal - structural: changes in the economy that make skills obsolete; seasonal: employment that changes by season.
• Frictional - moving from one job to another.
• Discouraged - people who give up looking for a job.
• Marginally - when you have a good job.

Current Economic Condition and Policy Options

It is a contractionary economy because of lower GDP and inflation, and unemployment is on the rise. Fiscally, we can decrease taxes and raise government spending. The Federal Reserve should buy bonds in open market operations (putting money into circulation).

Tax Systems

• Proportional - everybody

Chapter 1-7

Baseline: the period of an experiment without the treatment.

Behavior: anything that a person does.

• This implies that the activity is physical.
• This includes obvious, subtle, internal and private events.

Behavior analysis: the study of environmental events that change behavior.

• The founder of behavior analysis is Skinner.
• Behavior analysis exploded in popularity in 1970.
• Behavior analysis studies thoughts and feelings as behavior.
• Behavior analysis sees most behavior as voluntary behavior.

Behavioral definition: a statement that specifies exactly what behavior to observe.

• Creating a behavioral definition is the first step in studying behavior.
• It makes communication clearer; it maintains consistency of observations.

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Act I questions:1. Why does Shakespeare open the play by showing the witches? Why is it good for Macbeth not to appear first? A: To make the groundlings interested because it’s important to get them involved. 2. How does Duncan reward Macbeth for his bravery in defeating the rebels? Duncan announces it and then Macbeth finds it out; why is this order important? A: a) thane of cawdor- title and land. B) for the suspense, makes Macbeth believe the witches 3. Macbeth calls the day of the battle “foul and fair.” what do you think he means? A:It means bad and good. The bad is that the people died and the good is that they won the war. 4. When Macbeth is told of his new title, how does he and Banquo react? Why the difference in

Chapter 18: International Pricing and Trade Mechanisms

Pricing Approaches and Objectives

• 1. Active Pricing Instrument: A company using this approach sets prices to achieve targeted returns on profit.
• 2. Static Pricing Element: A company following this approach places a low priority on foreign business.
• 10. Administered Pricing Goal: The end goal of all administered pricing activities is generally to reduce the impact of price competition or eliminate it.

Distribution and Market Control

• 3. Parallel Importing Condition: Exclusive distribution often encourages retailers to stock large assortments, which frequently creates a favorable condition for parallel importing.
• 11. Market Control Agreement: A cartel exists when various companies producing similar

Relative Pronouns Practice

Complete each sentence with who, where, why, that, or when.

1. The person who scores the most points is the winner.
2. This is the place where I found some money.
3. This is the shop where you can buy very cheap clothes.
4. That's the year when we moved house.
5. That's the reason why I don't want to go.
6. A secret is something that you only tell one person.

Verb Tense Correction Exercises

Put the verbs in parentheses into the correct tense.

1. She will go (go) on holiday tomorrow morning.
2. Mary got up (get up) at 7:00 last Tuesday, but she normally gets up (normally get up) at 8:00.
3. I don't watch (not/watch) TV very often.
4. She went (go) home three days ago.
5. Alan usually goes (usually/go) to work by car, but today he went (go) by train.
6. Where's Tom?

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Apps

Presumptions

Linguistic Presumption (LP)

The hearer is presumed capable of determining the meaning and the referents of the expression uttered.

Communicative Presumption (CP)

Unless there is evidence to the contrary, a speaker is assumed to be speaking with some identifiable communicative intent.

Presumption of Literalness (PL)

Unless there is evidence to the contrary, a speaker is assumed to be speaking literally

Conversational Presumptions (ConPs):

• Relevance: The speaker's remarks are relevant to the conversation.
• Sincerity: The speaker is being sincere.
• Truthfulness: The speaker is attempting to say something true.
• Quantity: The speaker contributes the appropriate amount of information.
• Quality: The speaker has adequate evidence for what they say.

Strategies