question: During his college years, Rogers spent his summer holidays at an Idaho logging camp . When Roy, the manager, had to leave for a few days, he put Rogers in charge. "What if the workers refuse to follow my orders?" Rogers asked. He thought of Tony, a worker who was always giving the other men a hard time. "Fire them," Roy said. Then, as if reading Rogers' mind, he added, "I suppose you want to fire Tony if you get the chance. I'd feel bad about that. Tony is the most reliable worker I've ever had. I know he complains a lot, but he comes first and leaves last. There has not been an accident on the hill where he works for eight years."

Rogers took over the manager's job the next day. He went to Tony and spoke to him, "Tony, did you know that I'm in charge today?" Tony didn't show any respect or interest. "I was going to fire you because you once gave me a hard time, but I want you to know I'm not," he told Tony, adding what Roy had said. When Rogers finished, tears streamed down Tony's face. That day Tony worked harder than ever before --and he smiled for the first time! Rogers went back to school after that summer.

Twelve years later he met Tony again. He was in charge of one of the largest logging companies in the West. Rogers asked him how he managed to become so successful. Tony replied, "If it were not for that time you spoke to me back in Idaho, I would not be myself today. That one minute changed my whole life."

Have you got one minute to appreciate someone? It can make a difference for a lifetime.
1. Who was put in charge?
2. Who was he worried about?
3. Why?
4. Did he let him go?
5. Why not?
6. What kind of employee was he?
7. What happened some time after?
8. How was he?
9. Why?
10. How did he get there?
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answer: 1. Rogers
2. Tony
3. he was always giving the other men a hard time
4. No
5. he spoke to him
6. reliable
7. he met Tony again
8. successful
9. in charge of large logging company in the West
10. because of Rogers

question: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster with its headquarters at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included.

The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian.

Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.
1. what company is the story about?
2. is that an acronym?
3. what does it stand for?
4. do the have many people working for them?
5. how many?
6. how many more?
7. are they all full time?
8. have they been around for a long time?
9. how were they created?
10. who oversees them?
11. where are their main offices?
12. is it named?
13. what is it called?
14. how is their work paid for?
15. who pays this tax?
16. anyone else?
17. who?
18. so everyone in Britain?
19. then who?
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answer: 1. The BBC
2. Yes
3. The British Broadcasting Corporation
4. Yes
5. over 20,950
6. 14452
7. No
8. Yes
9. under a Royal Charter
10. the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
11. London
12. Yes
13. Broadcasting House
14. principally by an annual television licence fee
15. British households
16. Yes
17. British companies, and organisations
18. No
19. People using any type of tv equipment

question: Marxism is a form of socioeconomic analysis that explores class relations and societal conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and a dialectical view of social transformation it originates from the mid-to-late 19th century works of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Marxist methodology originally used a method of economic and sociopolitical inquiry known as historical materialism to analyze and critique the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change. According to Marxist perspective, class conflict within capitalism arises due to intensifying contradictions between the highly productive mechanized and socialized production performed by the proletariat and the private ownership and appropriation of the surplus product (profit) by a small minority of the population who are private owners called the bourgeoisie. The contradiction between the forces and relations of production intensifies leading to crisis. The haute bourgeoisie and its managerial proxies are unable to manage the intensifying alienation of labor which the proletariat experiences, albeit with varying degrees of class consciousness, until social revolution ultimately results. The eventual long-term outcome of this revolution would be the establishment of socialism a socioeconomic system based on social ownership of the means of production, distribution based on one's contribution and production organized directly for use. As the productive forces and technology continued to advance, Marx hypothesized that socialism would eventually give way to a communist stage of social development, which would be a classless, stateless, humane society erected on common ownership and the principle: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".
1. What kind of inquiry was originally used by Marxism?
2. To do what?
3. What did it evaluate?
4. When did it originate?
5. Where ustralian philosophers responsible for the theory?
6. Which two philosophers are?
7. And the other?
8. Where are they from?
9. What are the private owners called?
10. Who provides the labor force?
11. What does tension between these two groups result in?
12. What eventually happens due to the disagreement between them?
13. And what occurs as a result of this?
14. Is that a form of economic system?
15. What is it rooted in?
16. Of what?
17. What quote from Marx is given in the passage?
18. How is how much a person is given decided?
19. What is another term for appropriation of the surplus product?
20. What view of social transformation is described?
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answer:
1. historical materialism
2. to analyze
3. capitalism
4. from the mid-to-late 19th century
5. No
6. One was Karl Marx
7. Friedrich Engels
8. Germany
9. the bourgeoisie
10. the proletariat
11. class conflict
12. social revolution
13. the establishment of socialism
14. Yes
15. social ownership
16. the means of production
17. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
18. it's based on one's contribution
19. profit
20. a dialectical view