<span>In this excerpt, the writer is reminiscing about his childhood. The writer uses the words, "kindness" and "indulgence" to describe his parents. I gather that he was well taken care of and that his parents were not controlling tyrants. The writer also states that he felt "fortunate" for his life after mingling with other families.</span>
Answer:
The answer is concrete operational.
Explanation:
During this stage, which appears around age seven, a child begins to understand abstract concepts and develop logical thought. Another key element is that children become less egocentric. This makes sense because empathy, or "being in another person's shoes", involves abstract thinking.
Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States became committed to helping countries that were: fighting a Communist takeover.
- The <u>Truman Doctrine</u> was a foreign policy of containment issued by President Harry Truman, in 1947, in which he pledged that the U.S. would help any nation in fighting communism so as to prevent its spread during the Cold War.
- Moreover, the US feared that if communism could not be contained, then nations would fall to it one by one, like dominoes, and this phenomenon was known as The Domino Theory.
Leo is committing a fallacy called a red herring, which is a device in an argument that detracts the opponent from relevant issue. By saying that Scandinavian countries produce less carbon emissions than the US, he's either deliberately or inadvertently distracting Annie away from the fact that whether or not Scandinavian countries produce emissions matter, what matters in this context is that the US will receive less economical benefits from decreasing carbon emissions. By mentioning the state of Scandinavian countries, he pulling her away from the main topic at hand: effects of decrease of carbon emissions on the economy of the US alone.
