Patterns of direct verbal assertiveness, linear logic, straightforwardness, and transparent messages are often generated from cultures, in which shared assumptions are not taken for granted and where people value when others say what they mean and mean what they say.

Karl marx spent much of his life attempting to describe and understand how capitalism works. in one particularly vivid passage, he described in this way the turbulence he saw as inherent in capitalism: “all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.” what sort of relationships did he think his readers had with other people? a. relationships based on social bonds and solidarity b. cultural relationships c. economic relationships d. relationships of community and religion

Which at first gave the south an edge in the civil war? a. a better-equipped army b. the invention of ironclad ships c. the drafting of slaves into the army

Match the philosopher with his ideas, achievement, or events in his life. aristotle