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Study Island Assignment #20

 

 

Consumer Materials & Public Documents

 

VIP VIDEO RENTALS, INC.
VIDEO RENTAL POLICY



Rental Policy & Contract

This Rental Policy and Contract (the �Agreement�) is effective as of the ____ day of ____________, 2003 by and between VIP VIDEO RENTALS, Inc., a California corporation with its principal place of business at 2701 Mathers Avenue, Suite 100, Madisonville, CA 21303 and ____________________________(the "Renter").

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, and in consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions set forth herein, the parties agree as follows:

1. RENTER�S OBLIGATIONS: CONDITIONS OF EQUIPMENT LOSS OR DAMAGE. The Renter agrees to keep the Equipment in good working condition. When Equipment is returned to VIP Video Rentals, Inc., it should be returned in the same condition as when rented. The Renter assumes full responsibility when in possession of the Equipment. If the Renter does damage to the Equipment and VIP Video Rentals, Inc. suffers a loss, the Renter will pay VIP Video Rentals, Inc. for the cost to replace the item.

2. OWNERSHIP OF EQUIPMENT. Renter agrees not to deface, destroy or remove any marks or tags denoting VIP Video Rentals, Inc.�s ownership of the Equipment.

3. CANCELLATION NOTICE. VIP Video Rentals, Inc. maintains the right to cancel this contract within (24) hours of its making.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives.

VIP VIDEO RENTALS, INC.

BY:__________________________________

RENTER'S NAME:______________________________

ADDRESS:___________________________________

DATE:_____________________________________

SIGNATURE:______________________________________

1. 

According to the contract, the Renter is expected to

 

 

Select answer AA.

remove the VIP Video Rental tag from the video.

Select answer BB.

return the video in good condition.

Select answer CC.

purchase videos kept longer than one week.

Select answer DD.

lend the video to a friend.

2. 

If the Renter damages a video, who has to pay for the video to be replaced?

 

Select answer AA.

the State of California

Select answer BB.

nobody

Select answer CC.

the Renter

Select answer DD.

VIP Video Rentals, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

3. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives.


In this contract, the word parties means

 

Select answer AA.

a gathering of VIP Video Renters.

Select answer BB.

large groups of people.

Select answer CC.

a political activist group.

Select answer DD.

VIP Video Rentals and the Renter.

4. 

Read the application for employment above. If an applicant has won a school scholarship, where should he or she add the information?

 

 

Select answer AA.

box 4, under "Educational History"

Select answer BB.

box 6, under "Educational History"

Select answer CC.

box 10, under "General Information"

Select answer DD.

box 6, under "General Information"

5. 

Read the application for employment above. Under "General Information," if someone only wanted temporary employment, which box would he or she fill out?

 

Select answer AA.

box 11

Select answer BB.

box 10

Select answer CC.

box 8

Select answer DD.

box 9

 

6. 

Read the application for employment above. If the applicant is unable to travel, which box should he or she mark "no"?

 

Select answer AA.

box 3b, under "Educational History"

Select answer BB.

box 3a, under "Educational History"

Select answer CC.

box 9, under "General Information"

Select answer DD.

box 11, under "General Information"

7. 

Read the application for employment above. Under "Educational History," which of the following pieces of information should go on line 7?

 

Select answer AA.

can type 75 words a minute

Select answer BB.

4 credit hours

Select answer CC.

winner of the Dale Whitman Scholar of the year 2005

Select answer DD.

The University of Arizona

8. 

Read the application for employment above. Under "Educational History," in which box should the applicant check "no" if he or she has yet to graduate from high school?

 

Select answer AA.

box 9

Select answer BB.

box 3b

Select answer CC.

box 3a

Select answer DD.

box 2

 

Teens and Conservation Trends


     An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's movie on global warming, is now the fourth-largest-grossing documentary of all time. But apparently, it isn't young adults who are paying the price of the ticket�or, more important, taking the truth about the environment to heart.

     In fact, the inconvenient truth today is that youths' willingness to conserve gas, heat and energy has taken a steep plunge since the 1980s. According to data from Monitoring the Future, a federally funded national survey on trends in the attitudes, values, and behavior of high school seniors since 1976, there has been a clear decline in conservation behavior among 18-year-olds over the past 27 years; although, we are not yet sure whether these attitudes follow youths into adulthood. One of every fifteen teens participates in conservation. Compare that to one in five during the 1970s. This decline, interestingly, is coupled with a rise in materialistic values.

     In fact, trends in materialism and conservation are highly related. At times when youths place higher value on material goods, they are also much less likely to say they would conserve resources. And when youths are more materially driven, they are also less likely to believe that natural resources will become scarce in the future. Since the 1990s, the trends in materialism seem to have topped out at a steady high level. The willingness to conserve keeps declining. These opposing values should raise a red flag about the consumer culture and its influence on youth.

     Youths also believe that government is more responsible for the environment than they are personally. When they think that the government's role in solving environmental problems is declining, so does their belief that they, personally, must do their part to save the environment.

     Conservation is a collective responsibility. Likewise, in the minds of youth, their own actions to preserve the environment are linked to their view of the government's role in environmental conservation. Indeed, environmental attitudes of youth seem to mirror the opinions of those in the White House at the time. The highest levels of conservation took place in the mid-to late 1970s when President Carter was asking citizens to be responsible for conserving resources.

     The steepest decline in conservation took place during the Reagan administration. That administration has been widely criticized for its environmental policies. Willingness to conserve enjoyed a slight surge around 1992, when President Clinton first took office. This increase was short-lived. (Mr. Gore must not have been speaking up too loudly about the environment back then.)

     The good news in these trends is that when government responds, so do youth. If our country's leaders follow the example of Mr. Gore and start to genuinely explore real solutions, it's likely that young people will follow suit.

     Policymakers and elected officials might also want to note that when youths think conservation and pro-environmental attitudes, they are more likely to engage in conventional politics, from writing to officials to giving money to a political campaign, or working on a campaign.

     Mr. Gore argues that in America, "political will is a renewable resource." Perhaps one way to renew this resource is to start focusing more on young people and their understanding of, as well as contribution to, environmental problems.
adapted from http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/cel/news.jsp?news_item_KEY=3067&t=news

9. 

The data in the second paragraph provided by Monitoring the Future fail to show whether a teenager's attitude toward conservation changes as he or she becomes an adult. However, this data does support the idea that

 

 

Select answer AA.

more and more youths do not conserve natural resources.

Select answer BB.

fewer youths are motivated by government policy.

Select answer CC.

more and more youths are participating in politics.

Select answer DD.

fewer adults are impacted by conservation.

12. 

Which of the following statements supports the idea that when youths are driven by material goods, they do not believe that natural resources will become scarce?

 

Select answer AA.

40% of working high school students in the United States believe that there is no shortage of oil.

Select answer BB.

More and more teenagers want the latest, trendiest cell phone, computer, video game console, or sneakers.

Select answer CC.

Through volunteering, teenagers could be taught to put a greater value in people than in things.

Select answer DD.

Conservation can also be taught at home from the time teenagers are children.

San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, April 6, 1998

'Sink or Swim' Prop 227 hurts kids
By Lucy Tse

     "I stared at the teacher as she moved about the room. She talked and wrote on the chalkboard, and the other students answered her questions, laughed at her comments, and talked among themselves. I sat and watched. That's all I could do. Nothing made sense. That night, I told my mother that I felt deaf in a hearing world."
     In the days before bilingual education, every child placed into an all-English classroom had experiences such as this. Left to "sink-or-swim," some students survived and graduated high school while many others dropped out.
     This is the situation California schools will regress to if Proposition 227 passes in the June election. Practically overnight, nearly 1.4 million students not yet fluent in English will be given 180 days to learn the language
     Twelve-year-olds will be placed in the same classroom as 8-year-olds, and each will have to get what they can in those precious few days. Regardless of their readiness, these same students will then be placed into English-only classrooms with no help and no support. It doesn't take a vivid imagination to foresee the fate of these students. Many will do what their predecessors did a half century ago: Drown.
     Why abandon a method which gives students help in their native language while they learn English? We shouldn't. Despite popular perception, in study after study, researchers have found that bilingual education students in good programs learn English rapidly and get a better education than those who get no help in the home language. In fact, these programs keep students in schools and provide them with the background needed to go to college or to get a job.
     Of the 1.4 million limited-English students in California, only about 30 percent are in bilingual education programs. It is not difficult to find evidence of these programs' effectiveness. Across the state, students in good bilingual education programs outscore their counterparts on the state's own Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills in both math and reading, a test given in English. Beyond test scores, studies also show that students in bilingual education programs have higher self confidence and better attitudes toward school.
     Leaving students to fend for themselves is irresponsible policy. If we want students to learn English quickly then we should stick with a program that has proven effective: bilingual education.

Lucy Tse is an assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

13. 

What does Tse mean by "sink or swim?"

 

 

Select answer AA.

Students who know English will succeed in school; students who don't know English will fail or drop out.

Select answer BB.

Proposition 227 will help kids by teaching them to read in English.

Select answer CC.

Proposition 227 will hurt kids by not teaching them to swim.

Select answer DD.

The students who learn to swim will live; the students who do not learn to swim will not.

15. 

The purpose of Proposition 227 is

 

Select answer AA.

to hurt kids.

Select answer BB.

to improve test scores.

Select answer CC.

to teach children to swim.

Select answer DD.

to eliminate bilingual education programs.

 

Newspaper Delivery Application

A. Full Name:

B. Present Address:

C. Previous Address:

D. Phone:

E. Social Security Number:

F. Date of Birth:

G. Position Applying for:

H. When Can You Start?:

I. Last Job Held:

J. Reason Left Previous Job:

K. Education:

L. Do You Have Your Own Transportation?:

M. Referred By:

N. Signature:

O. Date:

16. 

What information should you write in line M?

 

 

Select answer AA.

The name of the manager of the newspaper delivery program

Select answer BB.

The name of your last boss

Select answer CC.

Your reasons for wanting the job

Select answer DD.

The name of the person who told you about the job

 

 

Proposition B is flawed
by Larry Rohrbach


     No one would disagree with the fact that Missouri's roads could be improved. Where Missourians differ is how to do that. The first solution in the minds of the government is "spend more money." Proposition B would increase taxes by half billion a year, the biggest tax increase in Missouri history. The problem with throwing money at our road problems is that we've done that before. Just 10 years ago I supported a six-cent fuel tax increase, and we're worse off now than we were then. We spend more money, and the roads and bridges continue to get worse.
     Proposition B is more than just a way to fund the roads. It is a dramatic change in tax policy. About two-thirds of the tax dollars generated by Proposition B will come directly from the pockets of Missourians who may or may not even drive. The tax dollars will come mostly from poorer Missourians and the money they spend on things like clothes, shoes, appliances, etc. Proposition B is not just about funding highways, its about what kind of tax policy we want in Missouri.
     Our biggest problem is not money; it's accountability. Spending lots more money right now on Missouri's highways is putting the cart before the horse. The Missouri Department of Transportation has spent a lot of time telling us what needs to be fixed and how much it's going to cost to do it. The problem is, we've heard it before. The list of things that need to be fixed is the same as the list from 10 years ago. Haven't we been feeding our tax dollars into these programs the entire time? They've spent money on new buildings all over the state. They fly commissioners to commission meetings in department-owned airplanes. It seems they have money for everything except the road improvements promised.
     To top it all off, the director of Transportation states that this huge tax increase is a good start but is only half what's needed to do the job. Let's get our transportation house in order first, and then let's talk money.
     Proposition B throws money at a problem, but most of the money comes from folks who don't cause the problem. We can do better, but only if we say NO to Proposition B on August 6.

www.joplinglobe.com

19. 

What is Rohrbach's MAIN argument against Proposition B?

 

 

Select answer AA.

The money raised by Proposition B will unlikely go to improving the roads.

Select answer BB.

The roads are in good condition and don't need to be repaired.

Select answer CC.

Most Missourians are too poor to pay for the tax increase.

Select answer DD.

Proposition B doesn't raise enough money to repair the roads.

 

20. 

If passed, what would Proposition B do?

 

Select answer AA.

Raise money for new buildings all over the state

Select answer BB.

Allow poorer Missourians to buy better clothes, shoes, and appliances

Select answer CC.

Improve Missouri roads without raising taxes

Select answer DD.

Raise taxes in order to improve Missouri roads