According to Randall Collins, our educational system is much like a "tribal initiation rite," a "secret society," or a "closed occupational caste." For Collins, it is not a rational system that produces more efficient production but a mechanism for:

-creating gender inequality in the workforce.
-reproducing the existing class structure.
-punishing those who deviate from mainstream American values.
-teaching the values and ideals that we need to function in society today.
-making inner-city schools extraordinarily unhappy places.

-punishing those who deviate from mainstream American values.

Explanation:

Randall Collins is a very influential American sociologist today. His works have been translated into several languages and his thoughts regarding political and economic changes, social conflicts, micro-sociology and others are followed by many people across the planet.

Collins has a strong opinion about the educational system that we have today, for him this system is weak, unresponsive and has no responsibility and commitment to those who go through it. He believes that currently the education established in the country, informs that it will form citizens ready for the job market that will evaluate their technical and intellectual capacities, however, the educational system ends up indoctrinating people with the standards of cultural respectability that it believes is essential for the society. As a result, this system ends up punishing those who deviate from the main American values, to a lower quality life through precarious jobs.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.  

two jet streams that directly affect the formation of weather in the continental part are a polar jet and a subtropical jet. they are responsible for the transportation of weather systems, which directly affect people. the polar front is the boundary between cold air from the north pole and warmer equatorial air. both the polar jet and the subtropical jet blow from the west to the east, and follow the boundary between cold and warm air.

the strongest jet streams are polar jets, while subtropical jets are somewhat weaker.

the right answer is c. the polar jet stream is generaly stronger than the subtropical jet stream.