Tom strongly believes that raising tax rates for the rich is the only way to steer the economy out of recession as it is likely to generate greater tax revenues for the government. when his friend sam pointed out that the government receives greater tax revenues when tax rates are uniformly low for all americans, tom refused to accept sam's input and change his attitude. interestingly, the input provided by sam further strengthened tom's initial attitude. this is an example of a

this is an example of contrast effect.

Explanation:

A contrast effect is the improvement or diminishment, relative to normal, of perception, cognition or related performance as a result of successive (immediately previous) or simultaneous exposure to a stimulus of lesser or greater value in the same dimension.

1) d

2)c

3)b

4) a

5)c

6) c

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.