Please attest that you understand the expectations regarding…

Please attest that you understand the expectations regarding final exams for this course in terms of proctoring and, most importantly, grading. The expectations are that: You will be present for ALL grading parties, including those for the final exams. You will be on campus until after ALL final exams end. This means you will not schedule travel until after the final exam period for the Institute has finished — not after your personal exams are completed. You understand the importance of student final exams being scored properly. You understand the importance of participating in this effort to keep the workload fair and balanced for the entire TA team.

Apart from his navigational skills, what most set Columbus a…

Apart from his navigational skills, what most set Columbus apart from other Europeans of his day were not the things that he believed, but the intensity with which he believed in them and the determination with which he acted upon those beliefs…. Columbus was, in most respects, merely an especially active and dramatic embodiment of the European – and especially the Mediterranean – mind and soul of his time: a religious fanatic obsessed with the conversion, conquest, or liquidation of all non-Christians; a latter-day Crusader in search of personal wealth and fame, who expected the enormous and mysterious world he had found to be filled with monstrous races inhabiting wild forests, and with golden people living in Eden.                                                                           – David E. Stannard, historian, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, 1992 Which of the following best describes the excerpt above?