Using the principles of Opportunity Cost and Rational Decision Making, explain why (or why not) drivers might be willing to pay up to $30 to save 30 minutes of travel time during the rush hour. 

Opportunity cost of your resource is defined as “the value associated with the next best use of that resource (which you must give up).” Decisions you make should reflect your opportunity cost, and not just your out-of-pocket costs. For example, if you decide to spend two hours of your time watching TV, the opportunity cost of your time is the value associated with its next best use (either studying or sleeping).
When the I-395 Express Lanes first opened in November 2019, the toll was expected to reach up to $30 for drivers in the Northbound lanes to travel a distance of only 8 miles during the morning rush hour. 
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Using the principles of Opportunity Cost and Rational Decision Making, explain why (or why not) drivers might be willing to pay up to $30 to save 30 minutes of travel time during the rush hour. 

According to Chapter 1 in Bell’s “Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice” and in your opinion, what is a good translation?

Answer the following questions:According to Chapter 1 in Bell’s “Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice” and in your opinion, what is a good translation? (The answer is in a paragraph form and contains the student’s opinion + some supporting evidence from the chapter.)Based on Chapter 2 in Bell’s “Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice”, discuss how a bilingual is not a translator and provide examples through each stage of analyzing a text (syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analysis). (The answer shows the difference between a bilingual and a translator through examples from the three stages of text analysis.)After completing Chapter 3 in Bell’s “Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice”, what is the best approach to describe and explain word-meaning in your opinion? (The answer is in a paragraph form and contains the student’s opinion + some supporting evidence from the chapter.) 

“For Virginia settlers, the overriding concern was material profit; for Massachusetts settlers, it was spiritual purity.” How persuasive do you find this statement?

1.Post a response to one of the following questions (about 400 words?everything need to be original.o“For Virginia settlers, the overriding concern was material profit; for Massachusetts settlers, it was spiritual purity.” How persuasive do you find this statement? In what ways, if any, do you think it falls short?oIdentify three developments (social, economic, or political) underway in England that helped launch that country’s energies towards North American colonization.oWhat motivated the establishment of British colonies in North America and the arrival of English settlers?oCompare the controversies generated in Massachusetts by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson during the 1630s. What did their challenges to the status quo share in common? How did they differ?oDescribe the public debates over the meanings of English freedom as they developed over the course of the seventeenth century.will send you two others posts. I need two reply after I posted my post. ?about 100 words each?this would be an example.

In the journal article “The poverty effect of democratization” by Christoph Dörffel and Andreas Freytag.1. What is the research topic of the paper?2. What is the research question of the paper?3. What is the dependent variable?

For this assignment, we will refer to the peer-reviewed In the journal article “The poverty effect of democratization” by Christoph Dörffel and Andreas Freytag.1. What is the research topic of the paper?2. What is the research question of the paper?3. What is the dependent variable?4. What is the independent variable?5. How many countries are in their sample? 6. What is the time period under analysis?7. What is the authors’ source for poverty data?8. List three sources of previous literature cited in the literature review.9. Table 1 on p. 7 has a table of descriptive statistics. We’ll talk more about these soon, but for now: which has more observations in the sample used by the researchers, democracies or non-democracies?10. The abstract provides a short overview of the research. According to the abstract, what are the findings of the research?   

What is the fallacy of Straw Man? How is it different than simply disagreeing with someone else’s point of view?

What is the fallacy of Straw Man? How is it different than simply disagreeing with someone else’s point of view?Use the material in Vaughn’s book to help you give a detailed explanation of what the mistake in a Straw Man is. To demonstrate your understanding and to teach the idea to the rest of the class, provide a relevant real-life example of the logical mistake. (You MAY use an outside source to help you present your example; be sure to summarize or paraphrase, cite, and use announcing verbs.) Choose carefully – consider whether your example does a good job of illustrating a Straw Man. Compare it to similar fallacies, and show why your example is a Straw Man rather than another fallacy like an Appeal to the Person. The discussion of your example should be detailed so that readers can evaluate the fallacy. Argue the case for why your example is an example of Straw Man.

You are enrolled in an online class, you receive a letter from Valley College. In the letter, you find out that the college has just received permission from the state to institute a “technology fee” of $100 to be added to the tuition that you pay for the class. write a letter to the vice president of instruction, Dr. Linda Stevens, telling her what you think about this new fee.

Assignment 1: – Think Piece #2This is the question for your reflection:Since You are enrolled in an online class, you receive a letter from Valley College. In the letter, you find out that the college has just received permission from the state to institute a “technology fee” of $100 to be added to the tuition that you pay for the class. write a letter to the vice president of instruction, Dr. Linda Stevens, telling her what you think about this new feeSo you would be paying $72 for the tuition and $100 for the technology fee for a total of $172 for an online class. Before instituting the fee, however, the administration wants to get feedback from online students. You are to write a letter to the vice president of instruction, Dr. Linda Stevens, telling her what you think about this new fee.——————————————————————————————————————Assignment 2: – Unit 2 Discussion Discuss your thoughts on this week’s reading, assignment and anything you want to talk about. Book for the class: Moore, Brooke Noel and Parker, Richard. Critical Thinking. 11th Edition. McGraw Hill, 2015.

We use models to help determine where people tend to live in urban areas. What model of urban development does your present city or town most closely resemble?

A. As you’ve seen in reading (Urban Patterns), geographers are particularly interested in the distribution of urban areas. We use models to help determine where people tend to live in urban areas. What model of urban development does your present city or town most closely resemble (better be in CA)? In what ways do some specific parts of it also resemble the other urban models? Be as specific as possible. Extra Credit Opportunity (optional; worth 2 points) – include a map and/or ariel image that supports your discussion. B. Transportation is a major physical, social, economic and environmental challenge cities face. As you’ve read in Ch 13. Urban Patterns, both automobiles and public transit have advantages and disadvantages. Many scholars argue that U.S. cities are too dependent on automobiles. In your opinion, assuming you must replace automobiles for a large proportion of the population, what alternative modes of transportation seem most promising in terms of urban planning and individual lifestyle choices? Why?

Write a commentary on the quote, supporting your arguments with knowledge resulting from class lectures, readings and discussions.

Write a commentary on the quote, supporting your arguments with knowledge resulting from class lectures, readings and discussions. Provide examples and quotations of songs to support your essay. Indicate which prompt you are answering to.Topic: “The post-coup 1960s was a period of crisis for progressive forces in Brazil that provoked a critical rethinking of nationally defined cultural imperatives that were articulated in several fields of artistic production, particularly in popular music. In 1967-1968 two young singer-songwriters from Bahia, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, led an ephemeral, but high-impact movement known as Tropicália that appropriated local and foreign musical styles and relativized prevailing notions of authenticity in popular musicBook: (attached) Christopher Dunn. “Tropicália, Counterculture and the Diasporic Imagination in Brazil.” Brazilian Popular Music & Globalization. Eds. Charles A. Perrone and Christopher Dunn. New York: Routledge, 2002: 84. Print.

What is your opinion regarding these online privacy issues? To what extent are you concerned about how your personal information on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google is used?

After you’ve read the case study “The Power and Politics of Privacy on Social Networking Sites”, please answer the following questions:1.  What is your opinion regarding these online privacy issues?2.  To what extent are you concerned about how your personal information on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google is used?3.  Looking back at the section on “political influence tactics”, which tactics did Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg use after he changed the original terms of use in 2009?4.  Of the stakeholders listed in the last paragraph of the case, which group do you think is most powerful in terms of shaping the future direction of online privacy issues?5.  Assume that Zuckerberg has hired you as a consultant to help him address the situation. Describe the steps that you would take.To answer these questions successfully, start by assessing group behavior within the organization, including positive traits of influence, leadership, power and of feedback, and negotiations. Also, look for ways that political tactics influence organizational behavior.

How would these social theorists explain why wearing a mask during the pandemic became such a contested action? I

This module’s readings and video include many important topics and concepts, including: Comte’s Law of the Three Stages; Durkheim’s mechanical and organic solidarity and suicide study; C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah’s moral sociology; social structure and agency; social networks, both artificial and natural; social capital; public good; methodological individualism and methodological holism.You are now to use these concepts (as well as additional concepts in your readings and the video) to analyze the United States’ controversy of wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. How would these social theorists explain why wearing a mask during the pandemic became such a contested action? Imagine that Comte, Durkheim, Mills, Bellah, Christakes (the professor in the video), Cooley, Goffman, Mead, Lacan, Berger, and Giddens were seated around a table discussing this issue. Who would be wearing a mask in this discussion?