Cities in a world economy Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

government - correct answer the system by which a state or community is governed politics - correct answer the practice and theory of influencing other people political culture - correct answer broadly shared values, beliefs, and attitudes about how the government should function and politics should operate; American political culture emphasizes the values of liberty, equality, and democracy moralistic political culture (definition) - correct answer the belief that government should be ...

Value - the relationship between the price of a good or service and the benefits that it offers its customers Business - any organization or activity that provides goods and services in an effort to earn a profit Profit - the money that a business earns in sales or revenue, minus expenses, such as the cost of goods, and the cost of salaries. Revenue - Expenses = Profit (or Loss) Loss - when a business incurs expenses that are greater than its revenue Entrepreneurs - people who risk t...

Accuplacer: Sentence Skills, Reading Comp., ESL Reading Skills, Accuplacer Sentence Skills, Accuplacer Reading Comprehension. SENTENCE SKILLS1 The baby was obviously getting too --hot, then Sam did-- what he could to cool her. A) hot, then Sam did B) hot. Sam did C) hot; Sam, therefore, did D) hot; Sam trying to do SENTENCE SKILLS2 She hoped to find a new --job. One that-- would let her earn money during the school year. A) job. One that B) job. The kind that C) job, one that D)...

Fukuyama believes that the victory of liberalism is essentially a victory of: A. ideas B. economics C. military strength D. culture - correct answerA For Sen, freedom is . . . A. a goal over and above development B. constitutive of the process of development C. necessary but not sufficient for wealth D. an indicator of human capital - correct answerB Florida argues that three types of geographic areas exist in today's spiky world. Which is not ONE of them? A. Cities of innovation...

The word geography means... - Answer- geo: earth, graphia: to write; description Five Themes of Geography - Answer- Location, Place, Human/Environment Interactions, Movement, Realms and Regions Location - Answer- Where are we? Where is it? Two types: absolute, relative Absolute location - Answer- A unique or exact position on the Earth's surface; coordinate systems, room numbers, street addresses Relative location - Answer- A position described solely with reference to another locat...

AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 2 magnetic compass - correct answers Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north rudder - correct answers the hinged plate at the back and bottom of a boat, used for steering junk - correct answers A very large flat bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel. Mongol Empire - correct answers an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, whi...

APUSH AP EXAM LATEST 2023 ALREADY GRADED A Chesapeake Bay Area majority of migrants who moves there were indentured servants, economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic Deism the belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature exodusters african americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start a new in Kansas (west) scalawags term used by southerners in the reconstruction era for fellow southerners who e...

4 problems often discussed in relation to the sharing economy & gig work: correct answers1) Outsourcing: - A key problem is that it has intensified already existing issues surrounding the outsourcing of labour such as the offshoring of work from local labour markets to the global market. - This creates enormous pressures, as it increases unemployment and moves young workers into precarious work or under employment. - Under employment describes when a person takes a job that does not match ...

Social 10-1 Related Issue 3 Latest Update Graded A+ economic globalization the increasing interconnectedness of people and places as a result of advances in transport, communication and info tech that cause political, economic and cultural convergence cultural convergence cultures coming together which then influences each other with their ideologies, traditions and beliefs william tabb (globalization is healthy but does not benefit all people economically) he's neutral about gl...

What is globalization? correct answersWorldwide integration and development. (Increasing international exchange of money, products, world views, ideas, and culture) Cities become less confined by national boundaries. Globalization has intensified the competition among cities for attention, influence, tourists, investments, businesses. Hosting the Olympics provides a city with an opportunity to (1) make significant changes to its urban landscape, and (2) rebrand the city and improve global percep...