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5. How does Las Casas use vivid imagery and emotion to persuade his audience?

10. How does Wheatley use religious language?

9. What is Wheatley’s main message in this poem?

A lesion affecting the hypoglossal canal results in tongue deviation toward the side of the lesion. Which cranial nerve is involved, and what is its type?

15. In the de Las Casas podcast, Dr. Thornton spent a lot of time on the section of the text called the Pearl Divers. What happened to pearl divers later in the day?

20. Phillis Wheatley – On Being Brought from Africa to America Key Quotation:“’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, / Taught my benighted soul to understand / That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour[,] too.” What’s so significant about these lines that we need to pause and reflect upon what she says, how, and why? 

17. Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography Key Quotation:“I included Temperance first, because it tends to procure that coolness and clearness of head, which is so necessary where constant vigilance was to be kept up.” However, why did he write this list and which virtue plagued him most and why?

2. How does Franklin describe his quest for moral perfection?

Which of the following are the main functions of the nose?I. HumidificationII. HeatingIII. FilteringIV. Immune

Why do most aspirated objects and fluids end up in the right mainstem bronchus instead of the left mainstem bronchus?