When productivity decreases, because of higher input costs or a natural disaster that inhibits the production process (for example), aggregate supply will decrease, prices will increase because of scarcity, and demand will decrease. Question 7: Productivity is an important factor in increasing aggregate supply. What are some current trends that might lead to increased productivity? Have you experienced any technological change in your job that greatly affected your productivity? Improved technology, operating procedures, and even better management techniques, can make

Obviously, some kind of intense action is taking place in the narrative along with music ("What struggle to escape?" "What pipes and timbrels?" "What wild ecstasy?"), perhaps some type of a festival or religious celebration or possibly a sexual orgy. The second scene (lines 11-30) begins with more music ("Ye soft pipes, play on") while some "fair" youths, perhaps blonde-haired like the original Greeks, sit beneath some trees. Line 22 indicates that the narrative is occurring in

Homeostasis is the goal promoted by both positive and negative feedback mechanisms. This is the principle which indicates that there is a balance in autonomic life functions which the body attempts always to maintain. This refers to such features as body temperature, heart rate, respiration and the powering of vital organs. When stimuli create a divergence from this status, the body will activate a set of responses designed to regulate a return to balance. 4. In anatomical

As an inhabitant of the Palestinian land which has since 1967 been occupied by Israeli foreigners, I am deeply and emotionally supportive of peace. My future, the future of my countrymen and our chance for independence all hinge fully upon this support. It is why I view with concern and suspicious any of the offers for peace which are on the closer horizon now that we have moved beyond the destructive extremism of the George

Rousseau is right in this instance, as English people who vote for Members of Parliament can no longer control the actions of their representatives once they are voted to office. Thus, their only recourse to altering the political landscape is the elections. In The Social Contract, Rousseau specifies that "The deputies of the people, therefore, are not and cannot be its representatives," thus reflecting on the fact that Parliament members act on their own behalf and not

Yes, of course. But Hick too is making an important initial assumption here: He is assuming that a test of human goodness is a necessary part of the universe. But this is only the case if one assumes the presence of a certain type of God -- one that demands that people demonstrate their faith and their ability to make the choices that God wants them to make. If