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In which of the following environments would you NOT find purple sulfur bacteria?

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Which poem is the following excerpt from? by jingo by gee by gosh by gumwhy talk of beauty what could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy deadwho rushed like lions to the roaring slaughterthey did not stop to think they died insteadthen shall the voice of liberty be mute?”

Choose Two and Only Two of the quotations below, and provide the author, the speaker, and the significance. 2 points for the author (or author and speaker if there is also a speaker), 2 points for the title, and 6 points for the significance. 1. Those blank buildings, without the stream of life pouring through them, were like empty jails. It struck young Rosicky that this was the trouble with big cities; they built you in from the earth itself, cemented you away from any contact with the ground. You lived in an unnatural world, like the fish in an aquarium, who were probably much more comfortable than they ever were in the sea. 2. It wasn’t nervous, it wasn’t a stupid lump; it was a warm brown human hand, with some cleverness in it, a great deal of generosity, and something else which Polly could only call “gypsy-like,”—something nimble and lively and sure, in the way that animals are. Polly remembered that hour long afterwards; it had been like an awakening to her. It seemed to her that she had never learned so much about life from anything as from old Rosicky’s hand. It brought her to herself; it communicated some direct and untranslatable message. 3. He remembered what his master had said to him on the day of his death, after the congestion of both lungs had shut off any probability of recovery, and the sculptor had asked his pupil to send his body home. “It’s not a pleasant place to be lying while the world is moving and doing and bettering,” he had said with a feeble smile, “but it rather seems as though we ought to go back to the place we came from in the end. The townspeople will come in for a look at me; and after they have had their say, I shan’t have much to fear from the judgment of God!” 4. Nature’s first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold./Her early leaf’s a flower;/But only so an hour. 5. Translation from the Italian: “If I believed that my answer would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would move no more, but because no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can reply with no fear of infamy.” 6. And indeed there will be time            To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”   Time to turn back and descend the stair     With a bald spot in the middle of my hair    (They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”) 7. Then again she comes to the curbto call the ice-man, fish-man, and standsshy, uncorseted, tucking instray ends of hair, and I compare herto a fallen leaf. 8. Way Down South in Dixie(Break the heart of me)They hung my black young loverTo a cross roads tree.Way Down South in Dixie(Bruised body high in air)I asked the white Lord JesusWhat was the use of prayer. 9. …and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word ‘dissipate’ — to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something. 10. by jingo by gee by gosh by gumwhy talk of beauty what could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy deadwho rushed like lions to the roaring slaughterthey did not stop to think they died insteadthen shall the voice of liberty be mute?”He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water 11. “You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you.” 12. The river was there. […] Nick looked down into the clear, brown water, colored from the pebbly bottom, and watched the trout keeping themselves steady in the current with wavering fins. As he watched them they changed their positions by quick angles, only to hold steady in the fast water again. Nick watched them a long time.

Vegetative cells undergo ____ forming spores. These spores  _____ into vegetative cells when conditions are favorable.

The _____ is comprised of a series of complement proteins that work together to make holes in some bacteria and viruses that causing them to burst. 

Graph y = -x – 4 and y = x + 2 by finding a table of values for each linear relation.Include your table of values and graph and identify the point of intersection.   Creating Graphs: You may create a table of values and graph by hand on paper, then scan or take a picture of your work to be uploaded for this answer. If you are unable to upload a picture, then you must make your graph on Google Drawing. The link is at the bottom under Assessment Details-Allowed URL’s OR You may use “Google Drawing” to make your graphs. Note:  No other graphing software will be permitted. 

Graph y = 3x + 1 and y = -x + 5 by finding a table of values for each linear relation.Include your table of values and graph and identify the point of intersection.   Creating Graphs: You may create a table of values and graph by hand on paper, then scan or take a picture of your work to be uploaded for this answer. If you are unable to upload a picture, then you must make your graph on Google Drawing. The link is at the bottom under Assessment Details-Allowed URL’s OR You may use “Google Drawing” to make your graphs. Note:  No other graphing software will be permitted. 

Answer the following questions using complete sentences. You may write in paragraph form (writing all answers in one free-flowing paragraph) or in list form (using numbers or bullets to separate the responses). Answer EVERY question. Write 100+ words overall. (You can see the word count at the bottom right.)    Tell me about your experiences as a learner of English: How long have you studied English? Where? What types of English writing have you done for those classes? Do you like writing in English? Why/why not? 

The core of Milton Friedman’s argument for shareholder primacy is pretty solid: Shareholders own the corporation Executives work for the owners Owner interests come first Owner’s interest is usually profit   Two (2) problems with this were discussed.  First, that Friedman does not really believe this when a voting majority of owners want something other than profit (discussed in class).  Second, because shareholder power primarily is a collective power, shareholders are effectively powerless (discussed in the video).  For this question: Briefly (a few lines at most) explain why the second issue is true Give one example of why or how this is true (based on the video discussion)