A speaker saying "It's the American way" is often an appeal to loyalty

In the United States, what is perhaps the single most important rule for polite and appropriate listening during public speaking?

a. Maintain eye contact. b. Take notes. c. Focus on nonverbals. d. Agree with the message.

In elementary school textbooks of the past, images of professional, careeroriented men predominated. When women were depicted, they were shown as homemakers and mothers

Children learned that these were appropriate, necessary roles to make a family function successfully in society. How can children's textbooks be described today? A. Today's textbooks for schoolchildren contain balanced depictions of the sexes in a variety of societal and professional roles. B. Today's textbooks for schoolchildren contain equal numbers of depictions of men and women. c. Today's textbooks are not all that different from past ones; roles for the sexes are still predominantly stereotypical. D. Today's textbooks attempt to depict women and men with equal frequency and with more androgynous than sex-stereotypical characteristics.