At a friend’s housewarming, you meet a nice couple from India. They are engaged and tell you that their marriage was arranged – the young woman was "given" to the young man when they both very young `she was 12, he was 14). They seem happy with this arrangement, but you’re quite taken aback. Later on, you have the chance to be alone with the young woman. You ask her about the arranged marriage, and indeed, she seems very happy about the impending nuptials. By your standards, this all seems very hard to take, but since the couple is happy, you let it go. This is an example of

Which of these describes a social effect of the civil war? a) fields were left unplanted because the slaves had been freed and much of the male population was unavailable to plant or harvest crops. b) over 600,000 men died, mostly because of the lack of food, clean water, and hygienic medical practices. c) after the emancipation proclamation was issued, african americans were allowed to join the union army. d) lincoln’s assassination after the surrender caused a disruption in the rebuilding of the nation.

In a property settlement after a divorce, the wife was awarded all personal property that had been accumulated during the marriage, including the husband's classic 19-inch black-and-white tv set. in order to get his prized tv set back, the husband lied to his friend, telling him that the wife took the tv set in violation of the property settlement. the friend remembered that the wife gave the friend's wife a key to her new home, and he volunteered to go with the husband to get the tv back while the wife was at work. the husband and the friend went to the wife's house, but, unbeknownst to them, the wife had taken the day off work. after the friend noisily opened the back door with his wife's key, the wife called the police, who quickly arrived and arrested the husband and the friend. as to a charge of common law conspiracy to commit larceny, how should the friend be found?

For 50 points populations within ecosystems can be separated into categories—producers, consumers, and decomposers. these categories represent a. the fossil records of organisms. b. the reproductive methods of organisms. c. the body plans of organisms. d. the functions that organisms serve.