_______________ is a complex thinking process that involves discovering and taking apart an author's meaning, evaluating the author's meanings based on established standards, and incorporating the meaning into the ideas you already know
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Exhorted by their leader, some 900 members of the Reverend Jim Jones' People's Temple picked up paper cups and drank purple Kool-Aid laced with the deadly poison cyanide. Psychologically, the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978 is not so incredible as it might seem. The inhabitants of Jonestown were isolated in the jungles of Guyana, intimidated by guards, and lulled with sedatives. They were also
cut off from friends and relatives and totally accustomed to obeying rigid rules of conduct, which primed them for Jones' final "loyalty test." Of greater psychological interest is the question of how people reach such a state of commitment and dependency. Why do people join groups such as the People's Temple? The People's Temple was a classic example of a cult. A cult is a group in which the leader's personality is more important than the beliefs she or he preaches. Cult members give their allegiances to this person, who is regarded as infallible, and they follow his or her dictates without question. Almost always, cult members are victimized by their leaders in some way or another. Psychologist Margaret Singer has studied and aided hundreds of former cult members. Her interviews reveal that in recruiting new members, cults use a powerful blend of guilt, manipulation, isolation, deception, fear, and escalating commitment. In this respect, cults employ high-pressure indoctrination techniques not unlike those used in brainwashing. In the United States alone, an estimated 2 to 5 million people have succumbed to the lure of cults. The author suggests that the mass suicide at Jonestown was a. due to food poisoning. b. not hard to understand when the circumstances are considered. c. a result of insanity of the cult members. d. expected by everyone who knew Jim Jones.
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Io (dubitare) __________________ che il compositore mi (dedicare) __________________ la sua opera.
Scrivete la forma giusta dell’imperfetto indicativo o del congiuntivo imperfetto. (Write the correct form of the imperfect indicative or the imperfect subjunctive.)
Los negocios.During your unpaid internship at a newspaper in Santiago, you meet many people. Select the sentence that best uses the underlined word.? Which sentence best uses the underlined word??
A. ?Ricardo perdió mucho dinero en la bolsa. B. ?Como líder de una compañía multinacional, Ricardo no tiene que saber nada de la bolsa.