True/False 7. Advertisements simply mirror, rather than shape, consumer preferences and values.
8. "Helps," "fights," and "up to" are common weasel words.
9. Ads that play on our fears and insecurities are known as anxiety ads.
10. Feel-good ads are used to appeal to certain images people have of themselves (as competent or responsible, for example).
11. The news media tend to extract information from the wider context, leaving us with some facts but little knowledge.

answer; eliminate parking problems in cities, because a car took up only half as much space as a horse and buggy;

the arab empire adopted the muslim religion as their main belief. arabs would influence the people from the territories they invaded towards islam (the muslim belief).

nevertheless, throughout the history of the arab empire, rulers brought intellectual individuals from other religions to their centers of learning. these other foreigners included jews, christians, greeks, persians, and indians.   these resulted in the adoption of important knowledge developed by these cultures by the arabic empire. for example, the works of aristotle were translated from greek to arab and indian scientists brought the numerical concept of "zero" to the arabs.

nowadays, 93% of the arab population is muslim, which at the same time is subdivided in sects including the sunni, zaini, alawi, shia. the remaining 7% is composed mainly of christians.