Which of the following aspects of American culture did early European visitors take note of as an interesting contradiction?

A) Optimism and fatalism
B) Pragmatism and risk-taking
C) Independence and conformity
D) Voluntarism and materialism
E) Self-reliance and selflessness


C

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Refer to the table below. What is the marginal revenue of producing the 500th unit of dairy product?



The table above shows the total cost for Happy Cows, a perfectly competitive dairy farm, at various levels of production. The market price for Happy Cows dairy is $10 per unit of dairy product.

A) $1,545 B) $15 C) $5,000 D) $10

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Anthropologists use a classification system for the amount of inequality in a society, developed by Morton Fried. In this system a. the categories refer to all types of inequality, including that based on gender, age and ethnicity. b. the categories are more points along a continuum; most societies fit somewhere between these specificpoints

c. the categories are caste, class, and egalitarian. d. All of these are true of Fried's classification scheme.

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Compare two of the examples of new immigrants to the United States and Canada given in the text by identifying one way their experiences have been different, and analyzing why that is the case

What will be an ideal response?

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The prenatal stage in humans is divided into:

a. trimesters. b. the neonatal period versus after the end of lactation. c. infancy, childhood, the juvenile period, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood. d. the neonatal period, infancy, the juvenile period, puberty, and adolescence.

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