Switzerland's ability to avoid Europe's major wars is in large part due to
A) alliances.
B) economic sanctioning power.
C) geography.
D) nuclear capabilities.
E) strategic gold reserves.
C
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Evidence of continued racial divisions and tensions may be found in all of the following examples EXCEPT
a. the fact that while Blacks tend to support soccer, Whites tend to support rugby. b. the fact that churches have racially integrated hierarchies. c. the fact that racial and ethnic bloc voting has changed only slightly. d. union leaders holding back from organizing a workers' party separate from the ANC. e. most Black people still live in ghetto-like townships or the historical homelands areas.
"Almost no one who lives in an industrialized country is poor." Which definition of poverty is the speaker using?
a) Relative definition b) Absolute definition c) Deprivation definition d) Partial definition
Comparatively speaking, the democratic transition in South Africa has been relatively easier than that in other transitional democracies because
a. the politically independent settler state that existed during the apartheid years was able to use the revenues from the local production of primary commodities to develop a relatively diversified economy, which in turn has meant that the current transitional democracy has inherited a strong economy. b. democratization was proceeded by a much longer process of economic liberalization. This has meant that South Africa has not had to undergo the types of dual shocks seen in post-communist countries. c. many of the more severe elements of apartheid began to be dismantled even before 1990, which in turn encouraged the development and growth of associational life. d. the constitutional negotiations that began the transition did not take place in a political vacuum or a situation of near state collapse. e. all of these.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What will be an ideal response?