The correct answer is <span>They fled to escape persecution from government soldiers.
In the paragraph, they explain that they fled because the soldiers were racketeering them. They would expect the locals to give them goods in the form of rubber or something else and if they couldn't provide they would get killed by the soldiers so they fled out of fear for their lives. The other possible answers don't fit the description in the excerpt.</span>
Public opinion has often been influenced by newspaper.
The popular thinking of "Well, it's on the news so its must be true" is really common in our current society that's why a lot of Government officials tend to have inside person within the media to control the flow of the information
Could you provide a picture of the cartoon?
Deficit spending is an accounting phenomenon. The only way to participate in deficit spending occurs when revenues fall shy of expenditures. Nevertheless, most academic and political debate regarding deficit spending centers on economic theory, not accounting. According to demand-side economic theory, a government can commence deficit spending after the economy enters recession. The concept of deficit spending as fiscal policy is typically credited to British economist John Maynard Keynes. However, many his ideas were re-interpretations or adaptations of older mercantilist contentions.
In fact, many of Keynes’ spending ideas had already been tried prior to the 1936 publication of his “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Employment,” Keynes seminal tome on economics. For instance, Herbert Hoover battled the Great Depression with a 50 percent-plus increase in government and immense public works projects during his four years as President from 1928 and 1932.