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Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. Stories about empires move us because they’re echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness. We live in a world of migrating peoples and interconnected markets, a global system of wealth creation built upon acts of violence. In the Americas, European conquerors erased ways of life that were alien to the, fought wars, enslaved people, razed temples, and outlawed religion . . . Hollywood takes the history of colonialism and conquest and dressed up the characters in robes and helmets and gives them prop weapons, and it transforms this history into a crowd-pleasing fantasy. As Junot Díaz once put it: without the history of racist ideologies, X-Men makes no sense; without colonialism Star Wars make no sense; and without the history of chattel slavery in the New World, Dune makes no sense.

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Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. This is my mission now. Here, in my own pages, which are meant to honor your stories and add to them, I will weave what I know with what you have taught me, and together we will arrive at an understanding of our time, and our “people.” And we we will be stronger and ready for the next fight, and the one after that, and all the many struggles to come.

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. What kind of talk was that coming from a woman? Cleófilas thought. But then again, Felice was like no woman she’d ever met. Can you imagine, when we crossed the arroyo she just started yelling like a crazy, she would say later to her father and brothers. Just like that. Who would’ve thought?  . . . Then Felice began laughing again, but it wasn’t Felice laughing,. It was gurgling out of her own throat, a long ribbon of laughter, like water.

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a baby’s beshatted diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

What do you think people should know about U.S. Latina/o literature?

A representative monopolistically competitive​ firm’s demand (D​), marginal revenue (MR​), marginal cost (MC​), and​ long-run average cost (AC​) curves are illustrated in the figure below. Is this industry in​ long-run equilibrium?

Farmer Brown grows blackberries in a perfectly competitive market. The average total​ cost, average variable​ cost, and marginal cost of growing blackberries for an individual farmer are illustrated in the graph below.   Farmer Brown will incur losses if the market price falls below $___ per crate. Furthermore, farmer Brown should shut down in the short run if the market price falls below $____ per crate.

Rick is a potato farmer, and the world potato market is perfectly competitive. The market price is $18 a basket. Rick sells 700 baskets a week. His marginal cost is $23 a basket.   Is Rick maximizing profit? Why or why not?