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What document replaced the American Hospital Association’s Statement on a Patient’s Bill of Rights?

A patient who is being treated for a knife wound in his abdomen says the knife slipped while he was carving a jack-o-lantern. When he first called the office, he said he had tripped with a hunting knife. This wound should be reported as a possible

A provider has had a long and difficult relationship with a patient who has been verbally abusive to office staff and has not followed treatment plans. She asks her staff to refuse to schedule any new appointments for this patient. Legally, this may be considered

       Extra Credit:                      [3 points each]Do Not attempt an extra credit question until you have completed the test.             1. What was “Americanitis”?           2. Why did the United States not join the League of Nations?           3. Who said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”?           4. Who said, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line”?           5. Who is the only presidential candidate to run for office from prison?

Short Essay Two:                            [75 points: CHOOSE ONE]In 3 to 5 paragraphs, answer One of the following questions. A good answer will have a clear argument that is supported by evidence (specific examples). Organize your essay with a logical structure and use topic sentences to make the logic of your answer clear.Southern progressives sought to “purify” the electoral process and restore order to society. What did they mean by this? Were they successful?World War I has been called a scientific war and the first modern war. What made this war unique?

       Short Essay One:                           [75 points: CHOOSE ONE]In 3 to 5 paragraphs, answer One of the following questions. A good answer will have a clear argument that is supported by evidence (specific examples). Organize your essay with a logical structure and use topic sentences to make the logic of your answer clear.Explain how the United States changed in the fifty years since the end of the Civil War. Your answer should account for political, economic, and social developments.How is the history of America’s westward expansion a story of both triumph and tragedy?

“No sweetness of honey could be sweet to me when I saw the dragon and saw the mice gnawing away my support.”

“Since, therefore, there exists a twofold truth concerning the divine being, one to which the inquiry of the reason can reach, the other which surpasses the whole ability of the human reason, it is fitting that both of these truths be proposed to man divinely for belief.”

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.”