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Answer 5 of the following short answer questions.  Each question is worth 10 points, and this section of the test is worth a total of 50 points. 1.  What are the two methods for raising an objection against an argument?  How are they different from each other? 2.  The second formal charge against Socrates is that he does not believe in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other new spiritual things.  However when Socrates questions Meletus, Meletus changes the charge.  How does Socrates defend himself against the new charge that he is an atheist?  Is his defense strong and credible?  Why or why not? 3.  How does Socrates draw an analogy between raising colts and calves and raising children.  How does this analogy involve excellence (arete – also translated as virtue)? 4.  How does Socrates distinguish between conviction-persuasion and teaching-persuasion?  Is he right that conviction-persuasion is what oratory employs?  Why would Socrates say that politics practices teaching-persuasion? 5.  How does Socrates argue that oratory is only an image of politics? 6.  Aristotle says that the many and the wise identify the best good as happiness (eudaimonia), though they disagree over what it is.  What does Aristotle mean by happiness? 7.  Why does Aristotle reject the life of pleasure, the life of honor, and the moneymaker’s life as candidates for achieving the best good?  

While the Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836) shared many elements with the U.S. Constitution, it also shared many elements with Spanish-Mexican law, including

Which of these statements about the Texas Constitution is accurate?

How did the Constitution of 1876 prevent future governors, including today’s governor, from consolidating power like Governor Edmund Davis did under the Constitution of 1869?

The post-2008 boom of oil and gas production is mostly due to

In the reaction mechanism below, ___ is the catalyst and ___ is the intermediate.             Cl  +  O3 → ClO  +  O2             O  +  ClO  →  Cl  +  O2

A reaction has the following rate law:      Rate = k[A][B]2 In experiment 1, the concentrations of A and B are both 0.10 mol L–1; in experiment 2, the concentrations are both 0.30 mol L–1. If the temperature stays constant, what is the value of the ratio, Rate(2)/Rate(1)?

Explain in terms of buoyant force how a fish is able to rise and sink in water. Contrast this to the way a submarine rises and sinks.

More than one weld bead, or weld pass, is usually needed to complete a weld on thin metal.

A correctly made weld has better physical properties than the base metals.