Answer:
127
Explanation:
The parallelogram has a side length of 11 ft, and the width of 15 ft.
The rug in the middle has a side lenth of 4 ft and the width of 9.5 ft.
Multiply 11 and 15 together, and multiply 4 and 9.5 together. Then subtract the answer you get from 9.5 × 4 from 11 × 15. The answer should be 127!
Answer:
(B). collect government taxes
Explanation:
A Bank is a financial institution that helps with the management of money, gives out loans, and gets profits in return. Banks only provide a means through which taxes are paid by opening an account for the government. Banks help people save their money, issue credit cards, store money in a safe place, etc. It is the function of the tax revenue service hired by the government to perform this duty. Hence, it is not within the banks' jurisdiction to collect taxes.
China was named after its first emperor war.
True.
The Enlightment writers fought for the rights of citizens and against the social and economical mechanisms of the Ancient Regime and the feudalism.
On the first hand, they established the fight for Reason and for the scientific methods as the ways to build knowledge hence, breaking with dogmatic beliefs, superstitions or extreme religious ideas.
It is important to highlight as well the ideas developed by Rousseau in his work <em>The social contract</em>, were he appointed that the citizens should be the ones legitimized to grant the power to the rulers of a state through suffrage. Therefore he supported popular sovereignty and suffrage. This sharply contradicted the absolute monarchy system that was the status quo in most European countries when the Enlightment ideas emerged .
Also, the idea of the division of powers was developed by Montesquieu. He stated that 3 branches of powers should be created in the goverment of each states: legislative, executive and judiciary, together with a system that prevents any of them from gathering too much power and ending up overruling the others.
Finally, the Enlighment claimed for basic human and civil rights: suffrage, freedom of speech, freedom of association, private property, etc. The first right declaration were written based on these ideas.
