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“Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander in chief…and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion do…order and designate as the states and parts of states wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following… “I do order and declare that all persons, held slaves within said designated states and parts of states are, and henceforward shall be, free… “And I further declare…that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States… “And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity.”-Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863To issue an Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln felt that he needed which of the following?”

“Now we all found the loss of Captain Smith; yea, his greatest maligners could now curse his loss. As for corn provision and contribution from the savages, we had nothing but mortal wounds, with clubs and arrows… “Nay, so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him; and so did diverse one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs… “This was that time, which still to this day, we called the starving time.  It were to vile to say, and scarce to be believed, what we endured; but the occasion was our own for want of providence, industry, and government, and not the barrenness and defect of the country…For till then in three years, for the numbers were landed us, we have never from England provision sufficient for six months.”-John Smith, description of “starving time” in Virginia, 1607-1614According to the excerpt, which of the following was the primary cause for the starving at Jamestown?

“Mr. President…I proposed on Tuesday last that the Senate should proceed to the consideration of the bill to organize the territories of Nebraska and Kansas… Now I ask friends and the opponents of this measure to look at it as it is.  Is not the question involved the simple one, whether the people of the territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery, subject only to the limitations of the Constitution?… “If the principle is right, let it be avowed and maintained.  If it is wrong, let it be repudiated.  Let all this quibbling about the Missouri Compromise, about the territory acquired from France, about the act of 1820, be cast behind you; for the simple question is – Will you allow the people to legislate for themselves upon the subject of slavery? Why should you not?”-Stephen A. Douglas, Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854Which of the following ideas is Douglas appealing to when he says, “whether the people of the territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery”?

#14: Consider the functions and defined below.  The function  is given by the graph below. The function  is given by the table below. 

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Should the explorer try to stop the punishment (out of an objective sense of what right behavior is) or should he merely observe (out of a respect for the values and practices of other cultures)?  Explain your answer.

Please share your thoughts on the following case. Your answer should include an assessment on the hematology, biochemical profile, blood gas data, and urinalysis.  Signalment: 11-year-old FS canine History: Weight Loss & Polyuria Physical Examination: Thin, Slightly Dehydrated Hematology Day 1 Reference Range PCV (%) 36.0 37-55 Hgb (g/dl) 12.5 12-18 RBC (x10^6/μl) 5.38 5.5-8.5 MCV (fl) 67.0 60-72 MCHC (g/dl) 35.0 34-38 NCC (x10^3/μl) 7.0 6-17 Segs (x10^3/μl) 6.1 3-11.5 Bands (x10^3/μl) 0.1 0-0.3 Monos (x10^3/μl) 0.2  0.1-1.3 Lymphs (x10^3/μl) 0.5 1-4.8 Eos (x10^3/μl) 0.1 0.1-1.2 Platelets (x10^3/μl) 400 200-500 TP (P) (g/dl) 8.1 6-8   Biochemical Profile Reference Range Gluc (mg/dl) 112 65-122 BUN (mg/dl) 216 (77.1) 7-28 (2.5-10.0 mmol/L)  Creat (mg/dl) 15.6 (1379) 0.9-1.7 (79-150micromol/L) Ca (mg/dl) 12.1 9.0-11.2 (2.25-2.8 mmol/L) Phos (mg/dl) 20.9 (6.75) 2.8-6.1 (0.9-2.9 mmol/L) TP (g/dl) 6.9 5.4-7.4 Alb (g/dl) 4.0 2.7-4.5 Glob (g/dl) 2.9 1.9-3.4 T. Bili (mg/dl) 0.4 0-0.4  Chol (mg/dl) 335 130-370 ALT (IU/L) 73 10-120 AST (IU/L) 25 16-40 ALP (IU/L) 662 35-280 GGT (IU/L) 8 0-6 Na (mEq/L) 144 145-158 K (mEq/L) 6.2 4.1-5.5 CL (mEq/L) 98 106-127 TCO2 (mEq/L) 13.1 14-27 An. gap (mEq/L) 39 8-25 Lipase (IU/L) 386 30-560 Amylase  (IU/L) 866 50-1250   Urinalysis  Color Yellow Transparency Cloudy Sp. Gravity 1.011 Protein 3+ Glucose Negative Bilirubin 1+ Blood Trace pH 6.0 UPC 11.1 Urine Sediment   WBCs/hpf 1-2 RBCs/hpf 1-2 Epith cells/hpf 5-8 Casts/lpf 0-1 Coarse Granular and Waxy Crystals Negative Bacteria Negative  

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