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D.   A wealthy and powerful “core” benefits from the extraction of resources from, and shift of environmental burden to “peripheral” regions.

A patient is receiving an opioid agonist like morphine. Which of the following best describes how morphine produces its effect?

In “Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?” Mary Waters says which of the following is true of symbolic ethnicity?

Which of the following is not an example of White privilege?

Which of the following was an additional example used in the lecture to try to explain Aquinas’s Fifth Proof? 

An online education company is reviewing student grades. For one student, Maria, the final exam score is missing because she did not take the test. If the company decides to record this as a failing grade (0) rather than deleting the row, what are they doing?

In the lecture, we mentioned one philosopher that Aquinas was greatly influenced by, whose Five Proofs are modeled after his Four Causes.  Who was this philosopher? 

Because high intakes of saturated fat are linked to increased risk for cardiovascular disease, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends limiting saturated fat intake to less than 10% of total calories. Which of the following dietary modifications would be the most effectively way to help Tyra reduce her risk for cardiovascular disease?

One of the possible responses to the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing” is that the universe has always existed. What response was given for why this cannot be so? 

Aquinas’s Proof from Gradations is modeled after which one of the Four Causes?