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PART B. IDENTIFICATIONS: The following passages come from the readings you have done for the semester. For this part of the exam, you are to name the author of FIVE of these passages and interpret these same FIVE passages, each in a coherent paragraph. In “interpreting a passage,” you should give its context within the author’s argument, the meaning of the passage, and how it relates to other ideas in the author’s argument or the wider course. Use as many specific details as possible.

“Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class.”

“We have given you birth, nurtured you, educated you; we have given you and all other citizens a share of all the good things we could.  Even so, by giving every Athenian the opportunity once arrived at voting age and having observed the affairs of the city and us the laws, we proclaim that if we do not please him, he can take his possessions and go wherever he pleases…We say, however, that whoever of you remains, when he sees how we conduct our trials and manage the city in other ways, has in fact come to an agreement with us to obey our instructions.”

A nurse is reviewing the health history of a client who is prescribed loperamide for diarrhea. Which of the following findings, if reported by the client, would the nurse report to the provider before administering the medication?

The “market to market” strategy was used by:

A major scandal mentioned in text and discussed as part of team assignments related to globalization concerns:

    Amongst Jack, Algernon, Cecily, and Gwendolen, who is the most earnest character? Why? (No first-person.)  

According to the video lecture presentation by Prof. Gomez-Mejia when working with people from different cultures a common behavior is:

Say you are advising the people building a website for a florist that offers flower delivery to homes and businesses in Fulton County. Using the phrase “flower delivery in Fulton County” in the text on the website’s pages will do which of the following?

Which of the following is not one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions: