Answer:
The sentence in this excerpt from Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" that uses personification is:
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
Explanation:
Here, Ambrose Bierce or the narrator addresses death as a person. He makes death to become a dignitary, capable of visiting a person or community. Grammatically, personification is a literary device or a figure of speech in which human attributes or characteristics are ascribed to non-human things or objects as if they were human. It uses metaphor, another literary device, to achieve this attribution.
Answer:
O A. allows us to compare the values of goods and services.
Explanation:
Money has three primary functions which include a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value.
As a unit of account, money is used to give value to other assets. In other words, money provides a medium through which assets and products are valued. Money is divisible into smaller units which makes its application in valuation easy.
The value of goods and services is expressed in monetary terms. Buyers and seller, therefore, can determine how much is needed to transact.
Answer:
Centralized production processing facility considers top management as the apex of decision making.
In decentralized production processing the decision making is delegated to teams and multiple individuals.
Explanation:
Centralized facility:
Pros:
a. In centralized facility top management commitment helps in improved decision making
b. Allocation of budgets to improve production processes.
c. The process becomes a part of strategic planning.
d. Standardization of processes like Mcdonalds kitchen.
e. Lower costs
f. Better forecasting
Cons:
a. Lack of flexibility
b. In case of international chains customers may be dissatisfied with standardized procedures
c. No room for customization
Decentralized Facility:
Pros:
a. Flexibility
b. Customer oriented approach
c. lack of bureaucratic procedure
d. quick decision making
Cons:
a. No standardization
b. Every Team has its own benchmarking process to evaluate performance.
c. Costly
d. Planning, budgeting and forecasting is effected adversely.
B. To focus on a global market.
The answer is C because smidgen means a small amount, and if she was not hungry then she would have only had a little bit.
