In hindsight, <u>from the Gilded Age </u><u>monopolists </u><u>perspective they would say that they have pushed too far with manipulation of prices and thus brought negative reaction and counter measures from the general public.</u> In particular, farmers in the Western country demanded that the government set maximum prices on railroads because monopolist had uncontrolled pricing power. Through the Granger movement they achieved passing of some of the ‘Granger Laws’ and set pricing limit on some services.
This concerned other industries as well. For example, the famous <u>Robber baron</u> Vanderbilt was competing with steamboat monopoly that controlled transportation between New York City and Albany. Using populist rhetoric and peoples line to bring down monopolies, he was trying to pave the way for his own business. Meanwhile, <u>the monopolistic Hudson River Steamboat Association end up paying him a great amount of money so that he would stop doing it</u>.
A classical conditioning is the learning through the voluntary paired associations and it occurs when a neutral stimulus is paired with an associated with an unconditioned stimulus to give a conditioned response. And is characterized by the person that makes a learned behavior with a learned behavior and a cue in the environment.
Mc Whorter believes that texting “degradates written language” because he deliberates that texting is not really a written language. He also adds that texting bear a resemblance to spoken language due to the fact that it evades punctuation and capitalization. It has a tendency to to be looser and telegraphic, as well as less reflective.
Ethnography is a qualitative research that deals with the in-depth study of a culture or facet of culture. The observer in this type of research method also become a participant, he misses with the culture or people he/she intends to study so that he/she can have a detailed report about the subject of study.
