All of the following communications with the general public are considered to be retail communications subject to the communication rules on advertising except:

An issuer's prospectus.

Explanation:

An issuer's prospectus can not be the communication method which will be used as an advertising tool because it contains all the necessary information about any issue or any case which is a disclosure content and can not consist of any advertisement content.

Prospectus is a collection of information about any issue which is used by the investigator of that issue.  

Retails communication advertisements can be done in many ways including the retailers and electrical content methods.

answer: fact: italy has over 300 islands ranging from extremely small uninhabited islands to the huge island of sicily.

explanation:

opinion: italy has way to many islands

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.