Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and…

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.

Farmer Brown grows blackberries in a perfectly competitive m…

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.

You quit your job where you earned $45,000 a year to start y…

You quit your job where you earned $45,000 a year to start your own widget business. To start your business, you cashed in your investments of $50,000 which earned you 10% a year in interest.  In the first year, you sold 10,000 widgets at $50 per unit.  Of that $50 per unit, $45 went towards production costs; materials, utilities, labor, marketing, packaging, lease payments, etc.    Refer to the above information. Your total revenues for the first year are: