Question 1 – 10 marks The table lists some macroeconomic data for a country in 2012. Item | Billions of dollars | Wages paid to labour | 850 | Consumption expenditure | 1‚100 | Profit‚ interest and rents | 340 | Investment | 170 | Government expenditure | 310 | Net exports | −54 | (a) Calculate the country’s GDP in 2012. (1 mark) (b) Explain the approach (expenditure or income) that you used to calculate GDP. (1 mark) An economy produces
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Black people who resisted the racial subordination. In 1947‚ Jackie Robinson became the first Black man to play for a Major League Baseball team. Less than ten years later‚ a court case ruled that schools were not allowed to be segregated by race. Only four years ago‚ a Black man was voted to be President of our nation. History shows that even though racism is a problem that our country has faced since its very beginnings and even today‚ not all people of minority races are negatively affected by racism
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How has Sethe changed from when she killed her baby and to when she attacked Mr. Bodwin picking up Denver? In the book Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison‚ one of the main characters‚ Sethe‚ has encountered two very similar scenes in the book‚ which are very symbolic. They symbolize the changes that have happened to Sethe throughout the book. Once‚ her former slave owner who is called schoolteacher‚ who she had escaped from‚ came to her house. During this‚ Sethe took her baby and killed it‚ claiming
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Slavery is an important part of American history. People had always been fighting for equal rights‚ even as today. As politicians and people campaigned and fought‚ many artists and authors expressed their ideas and thoughts through art and writing. Beloved is one of the influential book represent the life of typical women slavery in American history. Although it is not a non-fiction‚ but it does shown women’s perspective during that period of time. It is based on the story of an enslaved African American
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Beloved‚ a novel by Toni Morrison‚ exhibits the extreme difficulties a freed slave faces when they achieve the right to life and liberty again. Sethe‚ one of the main characters‚ faces hardship as the past she desperately tries to keep at bay catches up with her. Sethe’s evolution of self is revealed through her interactions with Beloved‚ the reincarnation of her dead daughter. Beloved’s entanglement in Sethe’s life shows the journey Sethe experienced from the beginning as a slave mother‚ to an confused
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Character Analysis In Beloved‚ 124 Bluestone Road is not only a setting but it takes place as character in the novel as well. 124 is seen as a character throughout the novel because it‟s where the beginning of Beloved‟s haunting came into play. 124 also becomes the character Beloved due the various haunting that readers see. At first‚ the house at 124 Bluestone Road was nothing significant besides the home of Sethe and Denver‚ but it soon had a new meaning once the spirit of Beloved began to haunt the
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and control Beloved posses over this family drives the individual desire Beloved holds dearly‚ and the desires unique to Denver and Sethe. Due to Denver’s secluded and solitary lifestyle created by Sethe’s lack of motherly affection‚ Denver yearns to be wanted and needed by an individual. She mimics her mother’s overwhelming desire of love with Beloved by making her a surrogate daughter instead of a sister. Through this infatuation Denver’s emotions and thoughts are consumed by Beloved‚ “She will
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The Effect of Tone in Beloved Tone is the way an author conveys a feeling to the reader through a piece of writing. In Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison‚ the book begins with a dark and foreboding tone and as you traverse through the memories of the characters the tone becomes more and more gloomy but as the book comes to a close the tone becomes more hopeful in 124. “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.” P.1 is the first words of the book and sets up the dark foreboding tone that trails throughout
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Slavery in Beloved In Toni Morrison novel Beloved demonstrations the effect slavery has on communities and people during the 17th and 18th century. The impact of enslavement is both emotional and physical leaving them with undesirable memories. But the events of slavery has changed the charters‚ allowing them to see the positive and negative side of being inslaved. In the book‚ each character carries their own painful stories of their journey from enslavement to freedom. The effects
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life and well as the life of other individuals. In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ memory may as well be a fearful part of the character’s consciousness. The main character Sethe suffers under the hand of her own mental prison that is her memory. She becomes obsessed with her past memories. These memories cause Sethe to dive into a sense of longing for something better for not herself‚ but for her daughter Beloved. Although Beloved is merely a physical manifestation of her memories‚ Beloved’s
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