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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.”

“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: