Norm worked as a sales person for his firm. When he turned fifty, the office had a party for him. His boss made a lot of jokes about Norm getting too old to keep up with the younger staff. Those comments continued past the party for several months. Norm was fired six months later. When he filed a complaint for age discrimination, the boss defended his actions by saying Norm was fired for not meeting sales quotas. Norm had missed his quota for only one month, and he provided evidence that younger employees who had missed up to three months of the quotas were not terminated. Norm is attempting to show that:

the employer's defense was a pretext.

Explanation:

Norm providing evidences that him being fired was unfair shows that Norm is attempting to show that the employer's defense was a pretext.

A pretext simply refers to a false reason which covers the true intentions or motives of an employer. In this case, the employer didn't fire Norm because he didn't meet his sales quota but fired him because of his age.

Therefore, all the defense given by the employer shows that his defense was a pretext.

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being born in poverty would limit the people's chances, opportunities and benefits.

this happen because of several things, such as:

- poor people tend to gain less access to good education and nutrition. this mean that their chance to obtain high paying jobs would also be limited.

- poor people tend to socialize with other poor people while the rich tend to socialize with other rich people. this means that simply throguh their social circle, rich people would have more business opportunities compared to the poor people.

- rich people tend to have more capital in their disposal. this would benefit them in business since it is far easier for them to fund their business operation compared to poor people.