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29. Offers and Requests Situations.
Consider the situation carefully. Ask your friend, relative or suitable 
person to help you. Use polite words and expressions when asking 
for help. 
You have to go away for the weekend for a business trip. You have 
lots of plants in your house and 3 cats. You need somebody who will 
take care of them.
Business
Business is the organized effort of individuals to produce and sell, for a profit, 
the goods and services that satisfy society's needs.
Rather, over the years individuals have organized their own particular 
businesses for their own particular reasons. All these individual businesses, 
and all the interactions between these businesses and their customers, have 
given rise to what we call American business. A person who risks his or her 
time, effort, and money to start and operate a business is called an 
entrepreneur. To organize a business, an entrepreneur must combine four 
kinds of resources: material, human, financial, and informational. Material 
resources include the raw materials used in manufacturing processes, as well 
as buildings and machinery. Human resources are the people who furnish their 
labor to the business in return for wages. The financial resource is the money 
required to pay employees, purchase materials, and generally keep the 
business operating. Businesses are generally of three types. Manufacturing 
businesses (or manufacturers)are organized to process various materials into 

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tangible goods, such as delivery trucks or towels. Service businesses produce 
services, such as haircuts or legal advice. And some firms—called 
middlemen—are organized to buy the goods produced by manufacturers and 
then resell them.
30. Answer the following questions.
Ethics
1.What is the purpose of a business, in your opinion? Is it just to make money?
2.
What do you understand by the term “an ethical business”?
3.
How do you feel about the ethics of advertising?
4.
Women are paid, on average, around 30% less than men for the same job.
How do you feel about that? Do you know of any cases?