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AP HuG Chapter 20 Vocab (Unit 7) Correctly Answered Questions 2024. comparative advantage - CORRECT ANSWER The relative cost advantage a country or organization has to produce certain goods or services for trade. complementarity - CORRECT ANSWER The mutual trade relationship that exists between two places based on the supply of raw materials and the demand for finished products or services. neoliberalism - CORRECT ANSWER Beliefs that favor free-market capitalism in which trade has no ...

Wrote the Communist Manifesto. Spoke of a class struggle - Answer-Karl Marx A workplace characterized by low wages, lack of benefits, long hours, and poor working conditions. - Answer-Sweatshop An economy characterized by part-time, low paid, temporary positions. - Answer-Gig Economy The struggle between capitalist and worker - Answer-Class Struggle A document discussing class struggle - Answer-The Communist Manifesto Marx's term for the working classes. People who work so that capitalist...

time space compression - ANS The apparent compression of geographic space by faster means of transport and communication time space compression - ANS Space is "compressed" for some people but extended for others (uneven experience = power geometry) time space compression - ANS Train between London and Paris is faster than previous means of transportation between the cities but the price prevents others from using it. Easy to get from Calais to England but n...

Greater demand for inexpensive products and various services are characteristics of what? consumer society The Sherman Antitrust Act was to put an end to what form of capitalism? monopoly capitalism 01:07 01:36 What kind of economy is based only on the use value of goods? subsistence economy High inequality results in what form of capitalism? corporate capitalism The former Soviet Union established an economy of what kind? state bureaucratic socialism ...

CULTURAL STUDIES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ Matthew Arnold (1960) on culture described culture as the best that has been thought and said in the world. Here reading, observing and thinking were said to be the means towards moral perfection and social good. His aesthetic and political arguments are a justification for 'high culture'. Leavivism (culture with a capital C) Shares with Arnold that culure is the high point of civilization and the concern of an educated minority ...

2.Given this data set, whats the first pass yield (FPY)? Good pieces = 88 Scrap pieces = 10 Rework pieces = 2 Machine Uptime= 90% - CORRECT ANSWER (100-12)/100=88 3. Which of the following is not a core element of the Toyota Production System? - CORRECT ANSWER Statistical Process Control 4. A tool used to implement a pull system is a ______ - CORRECT ANSWER Kanban 5. The first step in value stream mapping is always to: - CORRECT ANSWER Identify the customer and define value 6...

What is theory (a looking, viewing or beholding (NOT creating, making or doing) an explanation) a building is not a theory Theory Proposed explanation of empirical phenomena, made in a way consistent with the scientific method Theory proposed explanation of empirical phenomena Ontology the study of the nature of being or reality Epistomology the study of knowledge Positive Theory Descriptive - assertions about reality Not unbiased Positive Thory ...

Social media is an excellent tool for usage in the tourism and hospitality industry, but there are also many drawbacks. Which of the following is not true of social media in the tourism and hospitality industry? - Negative comments are generally seen in equal light when compared with positive comments Due to globalization and the opportunities afforded to tourists, there has been a push towards more individualized, personalized travel. Which of the following concepts best explains this shi...

Orientalism Discussion in Said, E. W. (2016). Orientalism. In Social Theory Re-Wired (pp. 402-417). Routledge "Format your discussion post accordingly to answer the following questions (use these questions as headings to help organize response): 1) What is/are the main question(s) addressed by the author(s) in the chapter? 2) What is the significance of that question for key issues in the field? 3) What are the competing answers to that question? 4) What would be a different, valid way of a...

Chapter 18 questionsIdentify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movement. - correct answers The Progressive movement was driven by the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the era. The extreme and increasing gap between rich and poor caused many people to demand reform. Journalists and writers helped expose corruption and poverty. In labor, the Triangle fire and firing due to unionization led many workers to demand better conditions and higher wages. Groups like the Wome...