Alan Dundes Thinks That Native American Folktales Have Characteristic Structures

question 19

Multiple Choice

Alan Dundes thinks that Native American folktales have characteristic structures, including __________.

• A) movement away from disequilibrium in society, expressing the need to rectify conditions in society causing disharmony
• B) movement toward disequilibrium in order to express the randomness of the world
• C) the need to have happy endings in myths
• D) the need to show a character's moral development through the course of the story

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Definitions:

Precautionary Balances

Cash balances held in reserve for random, unforeseen fluctuations in cash inflows and outflows.

EOQ Model

Economic Order Quantity, an inventory management model that determines the optimal order quantity to minimize total inventory costs, including holding and ordering costs.

Safety Stock

A level of extra inventory maintained to mitigate the risk of stockouts caused by variations in supply and demand.

DSO

Days Sales Outstanding; a measure of the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made.