The following statement is an example of which type of opener? "hi, let me give you a hand with that." self-references other references relational references context references

The statement "Hi, let me give you a hand with that." is an example of other references.

Explanation:

A sentence is considered to be a self reference, if the sentence or the idea refers to itself while contextual refers means when a sentence or an idea has a meaning which derived from a particular context instead of its original meaning.

Rational reference refers to a sentence or an idea that is formed after a rational discussion has took while every other reference is summed up under the “OTHER REFERENCES” which is the case with given sentence.

historically speaking, military dictators usually come into power

as the result of a military coup d'etat that was successful against  

whatever form of government existed before.  

sometimes the military dictator was put in place by winning a civil war.  

    occasionally military dictators conduct phony 'elections'  

in order to claim that they were elected by the people.

but there are never any serious candidates running against the dictator.

when a dictator becomes too old for governing his country,

he usually tries to arrange for one of his sons to take over power  

after he is dead and gone.  

when that is not possible, some secret decisions within the military

results in the next dictator taking power

—whether by means of an 'election' or another coup d'etat.  

    countries with little experience of other forms of government

often assume that a military strongman is their natural leader.  

military dictators want to stay in power for as long as possible.  

often the only way they leave office is feet first,

that is, they must die or be killed while still in power  

before the next form of government will take over.

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