Esperanza is a 70-year-old woman. Recently, she discovered that she enjoys listening to hip-hop music. As such, she has invested
in a large set of headphones and listens to this music everywhere she goes, rapping along with the lyrics. Esperanza attracts a lot of attention when she behaves this way in public, because this is typically something that people much younger than her do. In this sense, Esperanza does not conform to:
Esperanza does not conform to social norms, which are the standards to which people of her age are held in the society. At her age people feel she is supposed to only act and behave in ways that are only appropriate to those in her age grade. Social norms are unestablished rules that try to point people towards certain behavioural patterns in the society.
True. Agriculture is a major user of ground and surface water in the United States, accounting for approximately 80 percent of the Nation's consumptive water use and over 90 percent in many Western States.
The United States government functions under the principle of checks and balances. This means that each branch of government has a power that keeps the other branches from becoming too controlling. The branches are separate but equal.
