The answer is reinforcement and punishment. The term reinforce defines to build up and is used in psychology to bring up to something stimulus which build up or upsurges the likelihood of a specific reaction and punishment denotes to adding something aversive in order to reduce a behavior. The most communal sample of this is punishing spanking a child for misbehaving.
Assuming you're referring to the American Revolution, the revolutionaries felt they were in danger because the British far outmatched them in terms of man power and skill. To remedy this the colonists turned to foreign aid, especially from the French.
A) to amuse, because the passage contain many funny jokes and asides.
Explanation:
While any SAT article may have a funny interpretation or an aside it is unlikely that a possible interpretation of only the funny or amusing elements just for the sake of being amusing would be required to be talked about on the text.
If<u> the humor is to be interpreted it has to be along with the theme that the passage conveys that it should work and not entirely on its own as being amusing for amusement's sake.</u>
They squeezed Germany from two directions
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIAL SECURITY? The answer is a long-term shortfall. Social Security plans for solvency over 75 years, but because of demographic pressures and the weak economy, it is currently solvent only until 2033. After that, without reforms, it would pay about 75 percent of promised benefits.