Baby ashley picks up her ball and says, "ball! " ashley's father responds with a big smile and an enthusiastic, "that's right! ball! " in return, ashley laughs. when ashley is tired and crying, her father picks her up, rubs her back, and sings softly to her. ashley and her father are engaged in?

Interactional synchrony

Explanation:

In psychology, the term interactional synchrony refers to how a parent’s or caregiver's speech and infant’s behaviour become synchronised so that they are in direct response to one another.

In other words, the infant mirrors the actions of another person (usually the parent or caregiver) and moves his/her body and expressions in tune with the ones from the adult. Then, the adult responds to the infant and they become engaged in a synchronised pattern of behavior.

In this example, Ashley picks up her ball and she says ball, then her father answers with "that's right! Ball" and she laughs. Then she is tired and her father picks her up and sings softly to her. We can see that Ashley and his dad's behavior are synchronised and they are in response to one another (she cries and he sings to her, she picks a ball and he responds and she laughs), therefore they are engaged in interactional synchrony.

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.  

no questions on whether they are allowed that right