Monopolistically competitive market In Principles of Economics (third edition)‚ N. Gregory Mankiw describes the market as the combination of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service (64). Economists have defined three key elements for any industry to be classified in the market: the number of firms‚ the similarity of the products and the ease of entering a certain industry. By using these features‚ four market structures can be classified—perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚
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Explain the concept of Dukkha Dukkha is the first of the three marks of existence and the first of the four noble truths. Dukkha is an extremely hard word to translate‚ and its meaning can vary between suffering‚ dissatisfaction and imperfection‚ it is most often translated as suffering. In his first sermon in the Deer Park‚ Siddhartha Gautama tells us what dukkha means. “This is dukkha: birth is painful‚ aging is painful‚ sickness is painful‚ death is painful‚ encountering what is not dear is
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Introduction It is commonly assumed that where there are differences between L1 and L2‚ the learner ’s L1 will probably interfere with the L2 (negative language transfer)‚ whereas‚ when L1 and L2 are similar‚ the L2 will assist the L2 learning (positive language transfer) (Ellis‚ 1994). Therefore‚ we tend to believe that most of the errors are account of negative transfer. This is partly true according to many empirical studies of errors which have showed that many errors are common to different
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Law of Torts‚ MV Accident and Consumer Protection Laws II Interference with Goods TORTS RELATING TO MOVABLE PROPERTY o Torts affecting movable property are: § Trespass to goods‚ § Trespass ab initio‚ § Detention or detinue‚ § Conversion or trover. Copyright: Dr C J Rawandale‚ Associate Professor‚ SLS NOIDA 2013-14 2 a. TRESPASS TO GOODS o Technically‚ trespass to goods is known as “trespass de bonis asportatis”. o It means an unlawful disturbance of the possession of the goods by
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Chapter 9: The Voyage Through the Life Span Learning Outcomes Explain prenatal development and the role that sex hormones play. Explain the physical‚ cognitive‚ moral‚ social‚ and emotional development of children. Learning Outcomes Explain the physical‚ cognitive‚ moral‚ social and emotional development of adolescents. Explain the features of emerging adulthood. Explain the physical‚ cognitive‚ moral‚ social‚ and emotional development of adults. Prenatal Development Prenatal Development
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What theories did people developed to try to explain the origins of disease? Through the years‚ the spread of diseases developed around the word. Many people didn’t understand what the cause of disease‚ so they believed evil spirits was the cause of sickness. These people use multiple of methods to find a cure as they: prayed to God‚ visited witch doctors to do spells‚ and special ritual dances to find a cure. People created these theories to explain human disease for millennia. Even the Greek physician
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Explain the Platonic concept for “forms” Plato was a pupil of the philosopher Socrates‚ who was murdered for corrupting the youth of the city; he had been encouraging people to challenge the views and opinions of the city elders. Plato came up with an allegory of the cave‚ to explain the world we live in. the allegory suggested that people are ‘philosophically ignorant’ and are like the prisoners chained the floor of the cave. They can only see the shadows on the back of the cave; they are assuming
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I‚ 2012 SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT – I‚ 2012 /SOCIAL SCIENCE X / Class – X 3 Time allowed : 3 hours SS2-080 90 Maximum Marks : 90 (i) (ii) (iii) 1 11 10 31 1 3 80 22 (iv) 23 30 5 120 (v) 31 4 General Instructions : (i) (ii) The question paper has 31 questions in all. All questions are compulsory. Questions from serial number 1 to 10 are Multiple Choice Questions. Each question carries 1 mark. (iii) Questions from serial number 11 to 22 are 3 marks questions
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Explain the nature of the problem of evil The problem of evil refers to the nature of God. Many assume that God is benevolent but hardly anyone really considers the possibility that God is not all good but rather an all evil‚ malevolent God. The question is if God is all good and all powerful‚ then why did he create a world full of evil and suffering? There is so much suffering in this world that a lot of people find it hard to believe that‚ if God does exist‚ he is good. There is the argument that
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Explain the Augustinian Theodicy (25) A Philosophical theodicy demonstrates that God‚ being omnipotent‚ omniscient and omnibenevolent‚ has good reasons for occasionally allowing the continued existence of evil and suffering. It also demonstrates that the existence of evil and suffering provides greater benefits than the benefits of removing evil . St Augustine‚ 354 – 430 AD‚ based his arguments on the Bible; especially the accounts of the Creation and the Fall in Genesis. His influential theodicy
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