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[BLANK-1] was a southerner and one of the fiercest defenders of slavery in the leadup to the Civil War. This figure published several books defending slavery as a necessary evil and a positive good for both slave and slave master. The person embraced the “benevolent paternalism” justification of slavery and argued that blacks were better off within the institution of slavery in the south than were “wage slaves” – the northern workers who were exploited and paid little by industrial capitalists.

Your elderly neighbor’s television is quite loud and you can hear it in your apartment right across the hall. It occurs to you that, while the loud television is distracting you from your studies, it is likely that your neighbor is hard of hearing and hasn’t looked into their options for minimizing the effects of hearing loss. Describe the options available to your neighbor to help with the hearing loss they are experiencing and explain how you would approach your neighbor about the topic.

Why is it important to be careful regarding advertisements and literature touting the importance of “brain fitness” as it applies to neuroscience?

Based on research by Smith and Glass (1977) and others, the “Dodo bird effect” has come to be known as which of the following?

The Great Nation of Futurity, written by [BLANK-1] laid out the plan for the concept of Manifest Destiny. In this work, the author argued that the future of the North American continent should be dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant culture, which the writer believed was a superior culture. The work motivated many settlers, mostly white men with families, to move to western territories.

Do negative stereotypes about aging have any impact on older adults’ memory performance?

John Donne’s poem “For Whom the Bell Tolls” ends with the line

The main point of functional brain imaging research is to establish how age-related deterioration in specific brain structures affects a person’s ability to perform various tasks,

The        are involved in higher-order executive functions such as the ability to make and carry out plans, switch between tasks, and maintain attention and focus.

Part 2 [8% points each = 40% total] Short Identification Questions (IDs):A short answer ID should briefly address the basic journalistic questions: who or what, when, where, and why. Each term should be at least 4-5 sentences long. Be sure to discuss the significance. Write an answer for FIVE (5) of the following, even if you must guess somewhat (partial credit is better than none):The Declaration of the Immediate CausesThe Election of 1844The Election of 1860Ghost TownsHinton Rowan HelperJayhawkersJim BeckwourthThe Kansas-Nebraska ActThe Runaway ScrapeThe Sack of Lawrence