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Assume you purchased 200 shares of GE common stock on margin at $70 per share from your broker. If the initial margin is 55%, how much did you borrow from the broker?

Frost – “Mending Wall” How do the speaker and his neighbor proceed along the wall?

Glaspell – Trifles How was John Wright murdered?

What is “Self-Reliance,” and why did Ralph Waldo Emerson write it?

Thomas Paine – Common Sense In his Common Sense introduction, what does Thomas Paine state he has studiously avoided?

John Smith – “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles” How many colonists died in the summer of 1607?

 Henry David Thoreau – Walden Why does humanity need Nature, according to Thoreau?

American Historical Period of 1820-1865 Which of the following was a common belief among white Americans in the antebellum period about the plight of Native Americans?

Christopher Columbus – “Letter of Discovery” How was Columbus able to take possession of the islands he encountered on his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere?

Ralph Waldo Emerson states that one class of person is best able to see the “integrity of impression” made by the land. Who is this person?