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Write an essay about the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. Why and how does Spain go from being a middling kingdom with limited natural resources to being an empire it was said that the “sun did not set” up on it? How does it administer its vast possessions, specifically with an eye towards Texas and Mexico? Explain the success that the Spanish mission/presidio system had while noting the failures. What was life like for a neophyte in the mission, a soldado in the presidio, or a Canary Islander settler in Bexar? Geographically, what are the three main villas in Texas and what roads does one travel on to get there? Lastly, what causes the downfall of Spain and the Mexican Revolution? (Consider the relationship between the classes in Mexico. Also, how does European politics of the post 1763 and the Napoleon era gut Spain’s ability to rule her empire?)

While using a DBMS, Ginny attempts to access a record that she needs to alter, but finds that she can view but not change the record. She turns to another task for a few minutes, then tries again and successfully modifies the record. It is most likely that Ginny’s access to the record was initially limited by her DBMS’s _____ feature.

Suppose a programmer defines a function that performs a calculation on a variable and then returns the result to the main program. Which flow control method is being utilized when this function is called in the main program?

Within a database, a list of keys, each of which provides a pointer to the record that contains the rest of the fields related to that key, is a(n) _____.

With just facts and goals, Prolog would be nothing more than a database, but the language also provides programmers with a means to manipulate the facts by writing _____.

After learning of a data breach at his credit union, Samuel wants to inform potential lenders that they must verify the identity of anyone attempting to open an account in his name. Samuel should activate a(n) _____.

A block of code that defines an action in an object-oriented program is a(n) _____.

A facility where several corporations lease space and equipment to hold and protect their data is called a(n) _____ center.

Imagine you are looking at a UML class diagram when you notice a class called Dog and a closed arrow pointing upward from Dog to another class called Pet. What does this tell you about the Dog and Pet classes?