Jack, an adolescent boy, quits school to head out west to find gold. he spends a year panning for gold until one day he finds a large nugget and heads into town to cash it in. a corrupt gold exchange officer weighs the piece and offers the boy 1,500 dollars for his find. jack takes it happily but later realizes that the officer cheated him of 500 dollars because jack didn't understand the math needed to figure the worth of the gold. what would a culture that tells this story most likely value? a. the value of pursuing wealth b. the importance of receiving an education c. the value of outwitting people d. the importance of seeking real adventure

The answer is B: the importance of receiving an education.

 Many people desire wealth and things they imagine would set them in a superior or better position, which in itself is not entirely wrong. However, those that want to achieve this goal and aren't willing to sacrifice and take the steps to fulfill it, as this boy that quits the school, end up being sorry. The very thing he rejected (education) was what he lacked to manage things better.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

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