Answer:Uncle Burt is a laggard in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.
Explanation:
Laggard refers to a person who is slow to adjust to progress and usual get left behind as people adjust to new and current innovations.
Diffusion innovation refers to how ideas or products receive great momentum and spread out throughout a particular population. People begin to adopt these new ideas or products and move away from using the old ones.
For example the use of smart phones has spread out throughout reaching most population and the older version of phones are littles by little disappearing as people adopt this new innovation.
Uncle was still renting a rotary-dial telephone which is an oldest version of telecommunications , he has adopted the new phones that are currently used by most people so Uncle Burt is left behind in using the old product and this makes him a laggard.
Answer:
An aboriginal skeleton that was discovered in 2012 on the banks of Darling river in Tootale National Park is known as Toorale Man. The skeleton's facial bones were damaged and had deep and fatal wounds. The wound stretched from the forehead to the mouth.
Initially, it was believed that the wound was caused by metal blades and the man died in the violence between the aboriginals and European settlers. But the radiocarbon dating revealed that the man died much earlier, almost 700 years ago. It raised several questions about the use of metal by aboriginals because metal arrived in Australia with Macassan Fisherman in the north and then with the European settlement.
His skull was lying on a washed pile of sand and was arranged in a fetal position and his skull was sticking out.
Answer:
1) Bigot (a person who is intolerant)
2) Argot (Slang of a particular group of social class)
3) Augment (Add, increase)
4) Strident (loud, harsh)
5) Negligence (inability)
6) Expunge (take away)
Sending the case to a US court of appeals for a decision