The Job Interview: The most racist thing i have ever experienced

            I was a little girl and my grandmother had just moved down to north Carolina from  new York. She was a very proper woman whom always made sure she would speak proper English and that I would too. I witnessed her applying for a job over the phone. I could hear her conversation because she had the manager on speaker. The job she was applying for was a communications job and the manager seemed very interested in my grand mother. When complementing her on good her skills were the manager told her to come in the next day to start work right away. When going in to work  al lady (whom was the manager) stopped my grandmother and asked her how could she help her. My grandmother proudly and sophisticatedly stated that she was there for the job. She explained how she was cressie mears and how they had just spoken on the phone the previous day . the women looked at my grandmother in disgust and stated that their must have been a mistake because the woman that she hired was a white woman. The white lady assumed that my grandmother that was a white lady because of her fluent speech. Very disappointed my grandmother walked out of the building. I find that I was very distyrbed by that even though I didn’t understand what was going on. While in class one day presenting a powerpoint, my teacher commented by saying that I spoke very fluently. I was offended , because then I thought of  my grandmother and  thought what if iwas white, then would she have said the same thing?

How different economic systems answer the three basic economic questions

1. The three basic economic questions that every day society has to answer is; What product will be produced,How will the product be produced and for whom will the product be produced?
2. An economic system is a system of production and distribution and consumption. the four types of economic systems are :Market economy,Mixed econony,Commmand economy and Traditional economy(i.e.market economy is not run by the gov't,mixed economy is a mixture of all economies out together, command economy is controlled by the gov't, and traditional economies are based on customs and beliefs)
3. Idint know the answer to this question/
4.  The united states reflect a combination of the economic systems because the united states is a very the diverse country,with that being said that means that we have a mixed economy.
5. The economic system that is used by the Inuit  is the Traditional economy because there custom is to take the child through these steps on order for them work .
6. The  market,command and traditional economic systems compare and contrast with eachother in terms of profit motive
7. One reason why i support Adam Smith's theory of laissez faire and the ''invisible hand'' in the market economy is because it forces people to think about what other people wants and one reason why i would oppose this theory

Standard EF1: limited resources and unlimited wants and needs.

• Scarcity influences the choices made about spending money because your wants and needs are unlimited by how much money you have to spend. I had to make a trade-off once when I had to pay my band dues. I could have used that money to get my hair done but I chose to pay my dues. I told myself that I could get my hair done anytime, but right now I have to pay my dues in order to get my performance uniform. Afterwards I felt relieved, my due not getting paid was weighing heavy on me, so once I got them out of the way nothing else really mattered


• A business owner influences the four factors of production because in order to start a business, an owner needs a building (land), they also need employers (labor), and materials (capitol) and the business owner is the entrepreneur. Business owners can come into controversy with their employers and financial problems and the rewards come from them being in the right spot so that they can get a lot of service.

• I believe that I can see myself as a laborer and an entrepreneur. I have to build my leadership skills by working as an employer first in order to make my way to owning a business.

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This is an example of scarcity. In this picture the man is deciding which doctor to

The man in the picture has run out give up for the other. So this is an example of

of money and needs a loan to opportunity cost.

get what he wants and needs.

• I feel that I know this standard pretty well. I really don’t have any questions either.

Standards EF2 and EF3- productions possibilities curve; rational decision making; and specialization.

 If I owned a business a PPC would tell me all possible production possibilities for two products.


 growth and increasing of production would cause my PPC shift outward

 the best way to determine whether or not we are making a rational economic decision is by seeing if the marginal benefits exceeds the marginal costs

 Companies choose to specialize and trade because they have a comparative advantage. Also division of labor increases production, profit and trade. If companies didn’t specialize then production, profit, and trade would decrease.

 I feel that I really grasp this concept. Two things that confuse me however is comparative advantage and marginal benefits exceeding marginal costs. When I answer questions about those two things my mind is a little shaky