The goal of Confucianism is to create

1. democratic traditions
2. challenges to authority
3. a highly ordered society
4. economic interdependence

Decide whether each of the following statements makes sense (or is clearly true) or does not make sense (or is clearly false). Explain your reasoning.

The federal deficit can easily be eliminated through cuts to discretionary spending.

Fill in the blank spot in the following sentence.

$\underline{\phantom{\text{justekst}}}$ refers to the political system in which ultimate authority rests with the monarch.

Who wrote it? For a primary source, what was the author's connection to what he or she was writing about? For a secondary source, what makes the author an authority on this subject?

A responsibility center structure that considers investments made by the operating segments by using a common cost of capital percentage is called ________. A. return on investment B. residual income C. a profit center D. a discretionary cost center

Each month you have $200 automatically deposited from your checking account into a discretionary savings account. Your plan is to leave the money in this account for the next 10 years in order to use the total at that time at your discretion. A scatter plot shows the number of months that have passed and the amount in your discretionary spending account each month. The explanatory x-variable is the number of months that have passed. The response y-variable is the amount in your savings account. Is there a positive or negative correlation? Explain.

Commuting Refer to the information at the left.

The Port Authority collected about $\$ 249$ million in tolls from this bridge. Write this number in scientific notation.

Diagram the following sentence. Look for all the types of phrases learned earlier from the lessons.

Constantly conducting experiments, Franklin became an authority on the subject.

Express the thought of sentence below in no more than four words.

Who are the ones who have risen in revolt against established authority?

What concerns might arise when Congress delegates decision-making authority to unelected leaders, sometimes called the fourth branch of government?

The table below shows how each dollar of projected spending by the federal government for a recent year was distributed. (Source: Office of Management and Budget) Of the items listed, defense is the only discretionary spending by the federal government; all other items are fixed expenditures. The government predicted total expenses of $2,230 billion for the year.

a. Is at least one-fifth of federal spending discretionary spending?

b. Find the ratio of the fixed expenditures to the discretionary spending.

c. Find the amount of the budget to be spent on fixed expenditures.

d. Find the amount of the budget to be spent on Social Security.

A responsibility center in which managers are held accountable for both revenues and expenses is called a ________. A. discretionary cost center B. revenue center C. cost center D. profit center

a) How does the Choragos refer to the members of the Chorus? (b) Infer: Why might such a group of citizens possess the authority to be heard by the king? Explain.

How were the Church's authority and power affected by pope's move to Avignon and the establishment of a rival pope in Rome?