I. Introduction • “El Anglo con cara de incocente nos arrancó la lengua” • Wild tongues can’t be tamed‚ they can only be cut out. II. Overcoming the Tradition of Silence • Muchachitas bien criadas • “In my culture they are all words that are derogatory if applied to women – I’ve never heard them applied to men.” III. Oyé como ladra: el lenguaje de la frontera • Chicano Spanish is considered by the purist and by most Lations deficient‚ a mutilation of Spanish
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Answers to Chapter 3 Exercises 3.1. DRAM factory. You own and operate a facility located in Taiwan that manufactures 64-megabit dynamic random-access memory chips (DRAMs) for personal computers (PCs). One year ago you acquired the land for this facility for $2 million‚ and used $3 million of your own money to finance the plant and equipment needed for DRAM manufacturing. Your facility has a maximum capacity of 10 million chips per year. Your cost of funds is 10% per year for either borrowing
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Econ Answers Chapter 3 The price of train travel increases by 10% and the demand for train travel falls by 12.5%. The price elasticity of demand for train travel is – -1.25 The short run (retail) supply of freshly cut flowers is much less elastic than that of pot plants because: -florists cannot keep freshly cut flowers as long as pot plants If demand drops to zero at the slightest increase in price‚ demand is: - Perfectly elastic Price elasticity of supply will be greater when: - firms hold large
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5-1A. During the year‚ Plum Company has a SUTA tax rate of 4.8%. The taxable payroll for the year for FUTA and SUTA is $123‚400. Compute: a. Net FUTA tax ............................................... $ 987.20 b. Net SUTA tax ............................................... $ 5‚923.20 c. Total unemployment taxes ............................ $ 6‚910.40 5-2A. Peyton Company’s payroll for the year is $737‚910. Of this amount‚ $472‚120 is for wages paid in excess of $7‚000 to each individual
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In Lord of the flies the conversation at the end of chapter 5 is ironic because the boys speak about the parents in a way that seems like they are trying to show the parents as perfect. At the end of chapter 5 the ironic thing that should not be happening when the boys were giving up is wanting their family to be there. Piggy one of the characters‚ even says “I wish my auntie was here.” (94) This answers the prompt since it shows that the boys were just giving up and they were probably thinking that
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refers to the pronunciation differences of a standard language‚ a dialect‚ in addition to pronunciation variation‚ has distinctive grammar and vocabulary. Example: The word “y’all” is used in the south‚ almost specifically to that group of people. 5. Nostratic - hypothesized ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European‚ as well as other ancestral language families. Example: The language from which the Proto-Indo-European languages derived. 6. standard language - variant of a language that a country’s
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Review questions 1-10 Pages 146-147 1. Describe the three different kinds of material that can erupt from a volcano. Products of eruption come in three forms; lave flow‚ which can be Basaltic‚ Andesitic or Rhyolitic lava. A volcano also erupts pyroclastic debris (when lava flies into the air and freezes) and gases. 2. Contrast a pyroclastic flow with a lahar. Pyroglastic debris are blasting clots of lava‚ and the lahar are like mudslides that can reach up to 50km per hour. When the
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In the science fiction novel The Chrysalids‚ written by John Wyndham‚ the theme of isolation is displayed through the social‚ psychological‚ and geographical aspects of the book. Xenophobia is also a key factor contributing to the isolation between the different groups within the population. Social isolation is made clear with the separation between the "Norm" people and the mutants. The Norm shun those who possess mutant like qualities or abilities‚ and choose to isolate them in the community
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ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 14-2 The two principal reasons for holding cash are for transac¬tions and compensating balances. The target cash balance is not equal to the sum of the holdings for each reason because the same money can often partially satisfy both motives. 14-4 The four elements in a firm’s credit policy are (1) credit standards‚ (2) credit period‚ (3) discount policy‚ and (4) collection policy. The firm is not required to accept the credit policies employed by its
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Themes in Chrysalids Summary: Three types of conflicts serve as themes in the novel Chrysalids: Person versus Self‚ Person versus Society‚ and Person versus Person. The first conflict that we will talk about is a Person vs. Self conflict in which Sophie must battle with her conscience on whether or not to tell David about her deviation of 6 toes. Sophie is hurt and must remove her shoe to stop the swelling but in that case she would have to let someone know that she is a Blasphemy‚ something
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