Alice Rivlin is an economist and former U. S. Federal Reserve and budget official.
In this excerpt, Rivlin is criticizing the tendency that people have to look for strategies that require very little hard work or sacrifice. The examples she gives are losing weight without dieting and learning a language without sitting down and studying. She makes a parallel between this attitude and government spending, arguing that reducing spending is desirable but no one is willing to sacrifice what is necessary, such as some governmental programs.
The african american civil rights movements
1. PART A: Which of the following statements best summarizes a central idea of the text?A. Law is a human construct that is open to interpretation.B. It is the responsibility of the individual to act according to his or her own morality.C. Punishment must reflect or be equal in degree to the crime, as well as the perpetrator's social status.D. Law must derive from a higher power (i.e. God, religious law).
2. PART B: Which of the following laws from the passage best support the answer to PartA?
A. Law 16B. Law 109C. Law 141D. Law 196
1. The best statement that summarizes a central idea of the text is option c. Punishment must reflect or be equal in degree to the crime as well as the perpetrator's status.
This central idea tells us that every crime has to be of the same degree with the punishment that the person who committed it is to receive.
2. The law that best supports the answer in part A is law 196.
According to this law, if a person should put out the eye of another human being, this person's eye would also have to be put out. This law easily reflects the central theme above
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