My prior knowledge refers to the psychology of human behavior.
When i read the writing about civil obedience, i automatically assume the point of view of the perpetrator.
Often time, there are two major factors why people conduct such things:
- Necessity (such as having to put bread on family's table)
- Or a rebellious phase (commonly done by adolescents)
Knowledge in human behavior helped me understand the reasons why the civil obedience happening in the first place
This is the full question:
Consider this scenario. During the early 2000s, the Midwestern United States experienced a drought, or lack of rainfall. This ruined large amounts of the corn crop. Tortillas, which are made from corn, became more expensive to make. What would tortilla manufacturers have needed to do in order to make the same profit?
Answer:
increase the price of tortillas
Explanation:
To put in simply:
Profit = Total sales - Total expense
Total sales : Quantity sold x Selling price.
From the excerpt, we know that the total expense for the tortillas is increased because of the drought.
Because Profit = Total sales - Total expense
the manufacturer need to increase its total sales in order to get the same amount of profit.
They can either do this by increasing the price of the product or increasing the quantity sold. But since expensive materials is what caused the problem to begin with, it is very hard for the company to increase the quanitty sold. increasing the price of tortillas is a more logical approach
He hated school because Mark's experiences in school weren't so good. Whippings are a daily experience, and Mark is frequently punished because he talks too much or his nails aren't clean or his school fees aren't paid on time. And he hates homework.
3.This has a clarifying effect in depicting the terrible situation in the apartheid in South Africa. Because he wants to portray the horrible and unfair that life can be just for the fact that the color of your skin is different.
4.-Mark isn't impressed when Mama tells him he'll be going to school. He believed school was a waste of time, a lesson he learned from the gang of boys who lived in a junkyard and spent their days searching for food and stealing things for money. Where the boys were growing up, education wasn't valued, but figuring out how to fight and steal was. He uses active verbs like believe, learned, lived to depict what he thought about school.
5.-Since he wanted to make something more formal in his protest and it would imply more people involved and more time, too.
