According to the U.S. legislation, there are three procedures by which citizens can exert some influence on the decisions made by the government.
- Recall: Is the process by which the citizens are able to remove an elected official from his/her functions.
- Initiative: Is the process by which the citizens are able to propose a new legislation.
- Referendum: Is the process by which the citizens are able to overthrow a legislation adopted by the council.
Answer: True
Explanation:
Infant mortality in the United States has been characterized using racial division which starts from birth accompanied with differences caused by an unfair treatment that occurs in health care.
Health resources and care are never distributed or received equally by different racial groups. Although they have been positive changes in the health care of the African American population but infant mortality is still statistically 2.5 times more as compared to the white babies and these occur before the infants reach a year old. These numbers seems to be increasing in other states.
Socioeconomic status, nutrition and lack of prenatal seems to be major effect that contributes to these statistics.
Answer: Resistance
Explanation: Resistive attitude is the attitude shown by a person that tends to work or think against of something. These type of people are not open towards the change happening in their surroundings.
The example mentioned in the question also displays the behavior of resistance in which is is not able to accept the accent of Professor Yang's .He dropped her class because the resistive attitude regarding the normal accent.
This is called <u>"spillover effect".</u>
Spillover Effect is defined as the tendency of one individual's feeling or emotion to influence how other individuals around them feel. For instance, the boss got a telephone call that his wife was pregnant with a much-anticipated child. He goes into meeting glad and energized, and in spite of the fact that he doesn't enlighten his colleagues regarding the good news, his great mood rubs off on his colleagues and they feel happy also.
