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Compared to using pressure as the trigger variable, what is the major advantage of flow-triggering?

Identify three forms executive actions can take (hint: from the video in your weekly content folder on the president).  Explain how executive orders differ from laws.

Describe the process of confirming federal judges and justices of the Supreme Court. Describe the background of Supreme Court justices (education, experience, and ideology). 

Describe incumbent advantages in Congress (be sure to include at least three examples of incumbent advantages). Describe the rate of incumbency in both the House of Representatives and the Senate (be specific about both houses).    

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Optional Extra Credit (worth 2 points): Define, describe, and/or explain ONE of the following terms or phrases in enough detail it is clear you understand the concept/phrase. permaculture the role of fire in longleaf pine ecosystems how tomatoes are grown on Iceland (based on the video in your module)      

What Python language feature creates a new type?

If students is a dictionary whose keys are student IDs, and whose values are objects of type Student id is the student ID for the student object which line of code will retrieve the student whose ID is id and assign it to the variable student?

This question is a free point, since your answer doesn’t matter as long as you provide one. Just out of curiosity, did answering the previous question make you change your answer to the one before it?  (Answer “yes” or “no”.)

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