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Part II. Concept Explanation (35 points) For 5 concepts below, identify one work that discusses them and explain their meaning and significance in a short paragraph of 4-6 sentences (7 points each). Please note some concepts appear in more than one work; you need only identify one and explain how its meaning and significance in that work. Please note that you do NOT need to identify any of the remaining concepts other than the five you select. Please also note that you must give an answer based upon READINGS FROM CLASS, not outside readings that we did not cover Critical Theory Discourse (General) Transnational Cycles of Vulnerability National Culture Gender as Discourse Feminist Conception of Freedom Negative vs Positive Liberty Wages for Housework

Part III. Personal Reflection (24 points) For the below, please answer one of the two questions with a short paragraph of 4-6 sentences. What author or work that we read in the second half of the course do you disagree with most? What is your main objection to their view? If you had to pick one author or work that we have read in the second half of the course to recommend to your family, which one would it be and why?

Part I. Quote Identification (41 points) For 5 of the following quotes, identify the author and work that the quotation is drawn from and explain the quote’s meaning and significance in a short paragraph of 4-6 sentences (7 points each). For the remaining 3, just identify the author and work from which the quotation is drawn (2 points each).   “We don’t have a list of demands, because we are the demand. We are the alternative… Our embodied alternative is the solution.” “Justice is the primary subject of political philosophy.” “None of these conclusions are arguments against the use of reason, but only arguments against such uses as require any exclusive and coercive powers of government; not arguments against experimentation, but arguments against all exclusive, monopolistic power to experiment in a particular field…” “The involuntary aspiration born in man to make the most of one’s self, to be oved and appreciated by one’s fellow-beings, to “make the world better for having lived in it,” will urge him on to nobler deeds than ever the sordid and selfish incentive of material gain has done.” “The capacity of modern technology to intervene on the constraints of local ecologies via massive networks of energy, transport and storage and the globalisation of trade has completely changed people’s relationships with their locale. We are now free from the vagrancies of nature.” “It is not enough to try to get back to the people in that past out of which they have already emerged; rather, we must join them in that fluctuating movement which they are just giving shape to, and which, as soon as it has started, will be the signal for everything to be called into question.” “Family justice must be of central importance for social justice.” “And so we have learnt by bitter experience that nothing unified and revolutionary will be formed until each section of the exploited will have made its own autonomous power felt.”

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers of at least _____ employees to make _____ adaptations to facilitate the employment of individuals protected by the act.

In this class, you submitted the Early Childhood Issues and Activities project. Answer the following questions. What issue did you choose and why? What did you learn from your research on this topic that you didn’t know before this project?

From Stage 1 to Stage 4 of small business growth, the small business owner becomes less of a _____ and more of a _____.

In an ethical conflict, which type of duty always wins?

A discrimination lawsuit against an employer by a prior employee is an example of _____ tort liability.