What is likely to happen if every morning a person low in self esteem repeats self affirmations such as "every day , in every way, i am getting better and better"?

Slowly but surely their self esteem will improve because it takes that self assuring voice for someone to start believing in themselves so there is a high probability of the person to start believing in themselves or to start being confident .

There is a saying which says if you think you can , you can but if you think you can't ,you can't.

So as the person keeps saying he is getting better the mind may start to believe this and it will become their reality with time.

i want to say death; parole, probation, and fines are still being used all the time.

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.