How does russell baker paint a vivid picture of his mother in "no gumption"? a. he includes many of her maxims. b. he describes his parents' courtship. c. he speaks openly of his affection for her. d. he lists many details about her appearance.

Choose the best example of an indirect confrontation for the following situation: peter, a local school board member hired john whom owns a local print shop to make custom t-shirts for his son's basketball team, the ravens. they are about to play their final game of the year and are having a party to celebrate their semi-finalist rankings. unfortunately, the printer made a mistake and printed on red/blue shirts instead of black/blue which are the team's actual colors. peter explains to john that the team's colors are black/blue instead of red/blue and asks john what he thinks they should do. peter explains to john that the team's colors are black/blue and demands that john re-print the shirts on the correct colors. peter agrees to take the red/blue shirts but then posts a negative yelp review on john's business. peter agrees to take the red/blue shirts but tells everyone he can in the school about the incident and tells them not to buy from john. peter rejects the shirts and files a lawsuit to attempt to recover the down payment he made to john.

Why were the myceneans such good fighters a. they were trained at an early age b. if they didn’t fight in battle they were put to death c. dying in battle was considered a great dignity and fighting was a way to seize someone else’s land and food

The occurs when someone offers an unnecessary reward beforehand in an obvious effort to control behavior.