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1. What is the preferred method of contact for the professor in this course?

List the traits that are shared by Phylum Chordata.

Briefly explain why it is unlikely that endothermy could evolve in animals that get their O2 from water. How can this account for whales?

“In the field of its highest development, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport.” Who is the author of this statement?

“If, for example, the mind must suddenly deal with what it takes to be a radically new form of life…the response on the whole is conservative and defensive. […] The threat is muted, familiar values impose themselves, and in the end the mid reduces the pressure upon it by accommodating things to itself as either ‘original’ or ‘repetitious.’” Who is the author of this statement?

“The geographic boundaries I have been discussing accompany the social, ethnic, and cultural ones in expected ways. Yet very often the sense in which someone feels himself to be not-foreign is based on a very unrigorous idea of what is ‘out there’, beyond one’s own territory. All kinds of suppositions, associations, fictions appear to crowd the unfamiliar and strange space outside one’s place…” Who is the author of this statement?

“Language, in particular, can aid in decolonizing the mind. Thinking in one’s own cultural references leads to conceptualizing in one’s own world view, which, in turn, leads to disagreement with and eventual opposition to the dominant ideology.” Who is the author of this statement?

“Waste of time is thus the first and in principle the deadliest of sins. The span of human life is infinitely short and precious to make sure of one’s own election.” Who is the author of this statement?

“What is more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labor increases, in the same proportion of the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by the increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of machinery, etc.” Who is the author of this statement?

“Of course, dispossession of Native peoples was the origin, and continues to be the core, of U.S. foreign policy. From the Indians of the Americas to Pacific Island Natives, to the indigenous peoples of Asia, the U.S. has an unbroken record of invasion, land theft, and genocide.” Who is the author of this statement?