Information for questions 9-15 The market for paintings (a good with external economies of scale) is shown in the following figure. Note that one horizontal grid space is 20 paintings, and one vertical grid space is $2. Costs The only countries that can make paintings are France and Italy, and their Average Cost curves are shown, labeled ACFR and ACIT, respectively. Demand Two possible demand curves for paintings in France (labeled DFR,1 and DFR,2) are shown. There is no demand at all for paintings in Italy. The world demand for paintings is labeled DWORLD. Initially, all countries of the world are in autarky, therefore: 1) France produces paintings for its domestic market only; 2) Italy has no reason to produce paintings, therefore does not do so; and 3) the rest of the world does not have access to paintings.   For the numerical questions, only the exact answers are accepted. Answers can be made exact with the usual convention: if two lines seem to intersect at a grid point, assume that they do so exactly. For example, line DFR,2 and line ACIT intersect exactly at p= 14, and q= 500. Use a ruler if you need to! If a numerical question cannot be answered with the information given, enter 0.   Suppose that the Italian industry cannot get started, even though it has lower costs than the French industry at all quantities. The Italian government argues that this situation can be reversed with a temporary subsidy of the full cost of production of paintings into Italy. This would allow Italian producers to start up, and eventually to dominate the world market, at which time the subsidy can be eliminated. This argument is an example of:

Information for questions 23-25 Consider a monopolistic competitive market of a differentiated good, with identical firms. The demand for a single firm is given by p=900-1.5q (where p is the price, and q is the quantity). Note that this is linear demand, that is, p is a straight-line function of q. The total cost for each firm to produce quantity q is Cost=100+30q. That is, the firm has a fixed cost of 100 and a (constant) marginal cost of 30. Total market sales of this good are 21,840 units. For this group, only the exact answer is accepted, so double check your calculations.   Suppose the answer to question 23 was 455 (this is not the correct answer). That is, each firm produces and sells 455 units. How many varieties of the differentiated good will be sold in this market?

Which object displays one record at a time in a layout for data entry? a. Table b. Form c. Query d. Report

As a part of Jus ad Bellum, all but which of the following is a part of the criteria?

BCH4024 F2024 OC E4 Q26: Which of the following statements about spliceosome function is TRUE?

Instrucciones:  Answer the following questions accordingly. 1. What infinitive verb is used to describe likes and dislikes?      2. What does gustar mean?      3. What would the phrase Me gustan los apartamentos literally mean?      4. Bella typically leaves the house to work on her classes because she can’t concentrate at home. What would she say?      5. If someone is really good at numbers and enjoys working with them, what would they say? 

The infliction of severe pain upon the victim is one of the things typically considered immoral about torture.

Kemper coughed. “The key thing is the patsy. Once we get beyond that, we’re home free.”Littell shook his head. “No. The key thing is to thwart a full-scale FBI investigation.”Pete and Kemper looked puzzled. They weren’t thinking up to his level.Littell spoke very slowly. “I think Mr. Hoover knows it’s coming. He’s got private bugs installed in god-knows-how-many Mob meeting places, and he told me he’s been picking up a huge amount of Kennedy hatred. He hasn’t informed the Secret Service, or they wouldn’t be planning motorcades through to the end of the fall.”Kemper nodded. “Hoover wants it to happen. It happens, he’s glad it happened, and he still gets assigned to investigate it. What we need is an ‘in’ to get him to obfuscate or short-shrift the investigation.”Pete nodded. “We need an FBI-linked fall guy.”Kember said, “Dougie Frank Lockhart.”

Ladies and gentlemen, you’ve been invited here today for the official announcement of the inquiry into the death of George Hammond. A complete transcript of the investigation is in preparation. This committee has spent nearly six months of investigation, followed by eleven weeks of hearings. After careful deliberation, it is concluded that George Hammond was assassinated by Joseph Frady. An overwhelming body of evidence has revealed that Frady was obsessed with the Carroll assassination, and in his confused and distorted state of mind seems to have imagined that Hammond was responsible for the senator’s death. He was equally convinced that Hammond was somehow plotting to kill him. And it is for those reasons that Frady assassinated him. Although I’m certain that this will do nothing to discourage the conspiracy peddlers: there is no evidence of a conspiracy in the assassination of George Hammond. Those are our findings. The evidence will be available as soon as possible. Thank you. This is an announcement, gentlemen. There will be no questions.

ESSAY: Although post-1960 America has seen a rise in conspiracy theories and attendant fictions, it is clear that that the theme runs throughout American history, culture, and literature. In his essay “Conspiracy in American Narrative,” Timothy Melley notes that for authors including Thomas Pynchon, Allan Ginsberg, Don Dellilo, Ken Kesey, Joan Didion, and Margaret Atwood, “conspiracy was not simply complot (the gathering of people to enact a secret plan) or a metaphor for interpretive suspicion, it was an explicit cultural logic for thinking about systems, networks, and complex social structures.” For writers the Melley mentions–and we can add the likes of James Ellroy, Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code), Robert Anton Wilson (the Illuminatus trilogy), Stephen King (11/22/63), Umberto Eco, and even Robert Ludlum and Michael Crichton, conspiracy theories have provided fertile ground for successful (financial and critical) novels. For this essay, offer an explanation for why readers are drawn to such narratives. As a conclusion, consider the value of reading conspiracy narratives or fictions–do they simply magnify conspiracy thinking or do they offer a critique or counter–or something else.In your response, provide a definition for “conspiracy fiction (or narrative)”–as distinct from conspiracy theories. Include primary literary elements, themes, and motifs, some of which may be shared with conspiracy theory (incorporating theoretical concepts from the readings–both undergraduate and graduate as applicable–distinguishes Bs from As). Provide at least three examples (include at least two novels or films–don’t just list three short stories) to illustrate your definition and include an explanation of how the example illustrates the definition by pointing to specifics of plot or other literary element (you do not need produce specific quotations). If breaking down “conspiracy fiction” further helps with your definition, feel free to distinguish subcategories. You may also want to distinguish from other similar genres as necessary.