
Ummmmm... I think they're important, because to provide order and predictability in social relationships and to make sense of and understanding of each other's actions.

Jace
The line demonstrating the use of an understatement is the following:
<em><u>BOB (still looking out—looks up): Still all right up above, though. </u></em>
Having read the previous lines, the reader gets the sense that the situation is critical, the water is rising and it has already flooded the whole lower part of the hotel. However, Bob wants to diminish the emergency of the situation by stating that the upper part still looks alright meaning that the extent of the damage is not as great as Ed says.
Soft C:
Cereal, <span><span>ceiling, celebrate, celery, celestial, cell, </span><span>cellar
Soft G:
gym, </span></span>general, gentle, gentle, giant
(I took this from ahsan57900)
1. The governments and economies of foreign nations greatly influenced the United States of America because the products produced by foreign nations compete with the American products in the market. This competition causes negative effects on the economy of United States when more products of foreign countries are sold as compared to American products due to lower prices of foreign nations products.
2. Big challenges are created by nontraditional economies, natural disasters, and emerging democracies on the United States government because these factors lowers the production and sale of American products in the market that affected the economy.