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[BLANK-1] convened in Independence Hall in Philadelphia in May, 1775, and included most well-established colonial political figures, but also a new representative from Virginia named Thomas Jefferson. This was an active body that was responsible for The Olive Branch Petition, the creation of the Continental Army and Navy, and The Declaration of Independence. There was hardly consensus among the representatives, however, and there was much debate before the eventual decision to declare independence from Great Britain was achieved.

The most willing confessors during the 1692 Essex County Witch Scare were [BLANK-1]. In July, two young women “witch-finders” paraded through the town pointing out witches. By August most of the accused had been arrested and nearly all of them confessed. It had become apparent that confession was one of the surest ways to save one’s own skin by this point in the trials, however, this does not fully explain the high rate of confession. One woman later recounted that she submitted to the repeated pressure from the examiners to confess, “I had been press’d, and urg’d, and affrighted until I said anything that they desired.” Every accused child from this group confessed. The people of this community preferred consensus, valued submissiveness and obedience from women and youths, encouraged individuals to follow the majority opinion. Ironically, the fact that the children from this group were behaving as good New England children should, by submitting to authority and doing what was asked of them by adults (in this case, to confess to being a witch), meant that they would do what their elders told them to do and claim to be witches.

Instructions: Combine one prefix, one root, and one suffix from the selection below to form a correct medical term. Then define it. Prefixes: brady-, inter-, hypo-, hyper-Roots: my/o, cardi/o, therm/o, neur/oSuffixes: -itis, -megaly, -algia, -ic Example: an-, ech/o, -ic = anechoic > produces no echoes and therefore appears black 

All of the following are essential steps toward maintaining optimal physical health *except*:

All of the following are guidelines for evaluating online health claims *except*:

Which of the following does *not* describe “wellness”?

Exercise boosts the production of mood-elevating brain chemicals known as:

The ability to perform repeated muscular effort describes:

When a person with type 1 diabetes runs out of injectable insulin, their body will produce ketone bodies to be used as an emergency energy source (i.e., for brain function).  When these ketone bodies accumulate in the blood, which dangerous condition may result?

You are hiking with your friends and start to get hungry.  So that your body does not become hypoglycemic, it releases a hormone called ______________ to promote the breakdown of glycogen (carbohydrate) that is stored in your muscles and liver.