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During World War 2, in order to control rampant wartime inflation, there was a wage freeze, even for the most productive employees. In order to bypass this regulation, employers sought to offer health coverage in leiu of wage income. This arrangement left out one group of the adult population and eventually led to the establishment of:

Medicare celebrated its golden anniversary in 2015. Medicare consists of how many parts or components?

Complete the following line from your reading of Descartes’ Meditations:  I am, however, a real thing, and really existent; but what thing? The answer was, a ____________ thing. 

Explain some key points of disagreement between empiricism and rationalism. (minimum 200 words)

When an ionic compound dissolves in water:

How many moles of NaF are in 34.2 grams of a 45.5% by mass NaF solution?

Complete the following line from your reading of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (On Property and the Formation of Societies): And thus came in the use of ________, some lasting thing that men might keep without spoiling, and that by mutual consent men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable supports of life. 

Complete the following line from your reading of Hobbes’ Leviathan: The question who is the better man has no place in the condition of mere nature, where (as has been shown before) all men are equal. The inequality that now is has been introduced by the laws civil. I know that ____________ in the first book of his Politics, for a foundation of his doctrine, maketh men by nature, some more worthy to command, meaning the wiser sort, such as he thought himself to be for his philosophy; others to serve, meaning those that had strong bodies, but were not philosophers as he; as master and servant were not introduced by consent of men, but by difference of wit: which is not only against reason, but also against experience.  

Suppose a vodka martini contains 30% alcohol with the remaining portion of the drink composed of water. What is the solute in this type of martini?

You have fifty-five minutes for this portion of the final.   Identify the quotations or concepts as fully as possible with author, speaker (if appropriate), context (within the work), and/or relevance to the wider themes of that author’s work or the issues we have discussed in the class (such as, for example, economic, social, historical, or philosophical issues).  Mentioning connections with other works we have read or discussed (other than the actual work being identified) is appropriate.  Choose ten out of the twelve options.  Do not do extra responses.  You will be graded on the first ten you do, regardless of whether or not they are the best ten.  If you change your mind about a response, be sure to communicate that clearly by deleting the entire response.