Instructions: Read Each of the Following Essay Introductions

question 365

Multiple Choice

Instructions: Read each of the following essay introductions. Select the letter of the method the writer used in each introduction. The essay below begins with a Music is the speech of angels, wrote Thomas Carlyle over a hundred years ago. Today, growing numbers of scientists might agree. Soothing music has been shown to lower the blood pressure of heart patients, reduce pain after surgery, and help premature babies gain weight. In fact, research studies show that music has the power to heal and to work medical miracles.

• A) general idea that is narrowed to a specific thesis statement.
• B) contradiction.
• C) direct quotation.

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Definitions:

Future Financial Performance

An estimate or forecast of a company's financial outcomes in future periods based on current data and trends.

Direct Costs

Direct costs refer to expenses that can be directly attributed to the production of specific goods or services, such as raw materials and labor.

Cost Object

Any item for which a separate measurement of costs is desired, such as a product, service, project, or department.

Just-in-Time Manufacturing

A production methodology aimed at reducing flow times within production systems as well as response times from suppliers and to customers, by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process.