MBAA 604 Activity 1.4 – Case Study 1: Emerging Markets: Brazil’s Quest for Comparative Advantage 1. Why is Brazil’s agriculture so competitive? Why do its manufacturing industries lack competitiveness? ANSWER: Although Brazil’s products within the agricultural market are not rare or hard to imitate‚ its industry is able to produce more using a fraction of the resources compared to other countries‚ all while still maintaining a high standard of quality. This allows Brazil to become the world’s
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1. Why does Machiavelli caution a prince against being too generous? Machiavelli‚ in Chapters 15 of The Prince‚ explains that nature doesn’t allow perfection in any human being. This leads him to the conclusion that princes should avoid qualities that may hindrance their abilities to rule even if they are considered ‘good’‚ under which generosity can be grouped as. He speaks further in detail in the next chapter‚ when he says generosity is a ‘dangerous practice’. He explains that if a prince were
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Widdowson‚ H. G. (1998). Context‚ community‚ and authentic language. TESOL Quarterly‚ 32‚ 705-716. Q1: Are critics justified to claim that the structuralist approach failed to focus on meaning? Technically‚ no‚ because the structuralist approach does focus on literal meaning. But “meaning” can‚ and in some situations should‚ mean the intended‚ not literal‚ meaning of an utterance. Widdowson is focusing here on the limitations of the structuralist approach‚ in particular‚ its lack of focus
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tributes they don’t’ have food problems like the other districts they eat well like the capitol. All the districts have some type of culture role that their districts does. (Like district 12 provides coal and district 1 provides the luxury the capitol needs). Life in the capitol is more of the future‚ while in the districts it’s more of a real like thing. Like how they dress up in these crazy clothes and wigs‚ showers‚ the walls‚ ect. In the capitol they have some much money‚ which they don’t have to
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1. You are installing a network card in a computer that has several devices configured. There is a printer on LPT 1‚ a mouse on COM 1‚ a modem on COM 2‚ and a SCSI host adapter occupying IRQ 10. The computer also has a sound card using IRQ 5. If your network card supports IRQs 3 through 5 and 9 through 11‚ which of the following IRQs could you set it for in this computer? IRQ7 IRQ3 IRQ10 None of these IRQ4 IRQ5 2. A 100BaseVG network is build on a ______ topology with all computers attached
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traveller from an antique land‚ Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them‚ on the sand‚ Half sunk a shattered visage lies‚ whose frown‚ And wrinkled lip‚ and sneer of cold command‚ Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive‚ stamped on these lifeless things‚ The hand that mocked them‚ and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal‚ these words appear: My name is Ozymandias‚ King of Kings; Look on my Works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair
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1. When comparing the composition of world trade in the early 20th century to the early 21st century‚ we find major compositional changes. These include a relative decline in trade in agricultural and primary-products (including raw materials). How would you explain this in terms of broad historical developments during this period? The typical composition of world production during this period experienced major changes. Focusing on today’s major industrial countries the industrial-employment composition
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Jillian Mulrooney & Emma Zika Test Questions Concept 1: Write the name of the acids and bases from given formula Q-1-1: Name the following base: NaOH Q-1-2: Name the following acid: HCN Concept 2: Write the formula form given name of acids and bases Q-2-1: Write the formula for the following acid: lithium hydroxide Q-2-2: Write the name for the following base: hydrobromic acid Concept 3: Distinguish between acid‚ base‚ neutral compounds based on their properties which can be tested in a
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application of new and improved technologies. Having read the chapters from Lovelock‚ Wirtz‚ Key & Lu (2005) and Masterson & Pickton (2010)‚ what concepts or ideas relating to services marketing did you find most difficult to understand and why? Answer: In my opinion‚ the most difficult to understand concept is “People are often part of the product”. The difference between ones service and another often lies in the quality of employees who serve the customers. Service firms need to devote special
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1. The two main approaches to student learning are constructivist and A) deconstructivist. B) instrumental. C) direct instruction. D) cooperative. Answer: C Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge Difficulty: Basic Feedback: 332 Learning Goal: 1 3. In Mr. Durgan’s U.S. history class‚ students work in teams to explore‚ research‚ and present a topic to the class. They can choose from a list of topics or propose a topic to the teacher for approval. Mr. Durgan serves as their guide and mentor for the
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