Directions: Annotate the text (print the text or write your annotations in response to this question) and handwrite a two paragraph analysis answering the Guiding Question. If you have typing accommodations, you can annotate and write your response below.   The text can be downloaded or viewed here.   This is an excerpt from the travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert, published in 2006.   The whole idea of Bali is a matrix, a massive and invisible grid of spirits, guides, paths and customs. Every Balinese knows exactly where he or she belongs, oriented within this great, intangible map. Just look at the four names of almost every Balinese citizen — First, Second, Third, Fourth — reminding them all of when they were born in the family, and where they belong. You couldn’t have a clearer social mapping system if you called your kids North, South, East and West. Mario, my new Italian/Indonesian friend, told me that he is only happy when he can maintain himself — mentally and spiritually — at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know exactly where he is located at every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power. It’s not a ludicrous hypothesis, therefore, to say that the Balinese are the global masters of balance, the people for whom the maintenance of perfect equilibrium is an art, a science and a religion. For me, on a personal search for balance, I had hoped to learn much from the Balinese about holding steady in this chaotic world. But the more I read and see about this culture, the more I realize how far off the grid of balance I’ve fallen, at least from the Balinese perspective. My habit of wandering through this world oblivious to my physical orientation, in addition to my decision to have stepped outside the containing network of marriage and family, makes me — for Balinese purposes — something like a ghost. I enjoy living this way, but it’s a nightmare of a life by the standards of any self-respecting Balinese. If you don’t know where you are or whose clan you belong to, then how can you possibly find balance? Given all this, I’m not so sure how much of the Balinese worldview I’m going to be able to incorporate into my own worldview, since at the moment I seem to be taking a more modern and Western definition of the word equilibrium. (I’m currently translating it as meaning ‘equal freedom,’ or the equal possibility of falling in any direction at any given time, depending on . . . you know . . . how things go.) The Balinese don’t wait and see ‘how things go.’ That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.   Guiding Question: How does the author blend travel writing and personal memoir conventions to communicate what she’s learned to the reader?

Which of the following gained the favor of Andrew Jackson during the Battle of the Horsehoe Bend?

If a state did not like or approve of a law passed by Congress, many Southerners believed the state could reject that law. What is this called?

The Compromise of 1790 agreed to move the capitol out of New York city and into which city for a period of ten years, while a new federal city was built along the Potomac River?

A nurse is evaluating a 12-month-old with poor weight gain, abdominal bloating, and foul-smelling stools. These findings are most consistent with which diagnosis?

On admission, a client with gastrointestinal bleeding had vital signs of a blood pressure of 121/70 mm Hg, pulse 72 beats/minute, respirations 14 breaths/minute, and temperature 98.8F (37.1C). What finding should be reported to the health care provider immediately upon reassessment?

Directions: Annotate the text (print the text or write your annotations in response to this question) and handwrite a two paragraph analysis answering the Guiding Question. If you have typing accommodations, you can annotate and write your response below.   The text can be downloaded or viewed here.   “A better measure for society” (excerpt from Remarks at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968) by Robert F. Kennedy to 20,000 community members as a stop on his campaign tour. Kennedy was a politician who supported the civil rights movement, worked against organized crime and the US involvement in Vietnam. He was assassinated June 5 as he was campaigning to be President of the United States.     Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.   Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product – if we judge the United States of America by that – that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.  It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them.  It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.  It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities.  It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.   Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play.  It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials.  It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.   And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans. Robert F. KennedyMarch 18, 1968 Guiding Question: How does the author use structural techniques and rhetoric to achieve his purpose with his target audience?

Explain two microbe-mediated mechanisms that enhance insecticide resistance in insects. Use specific examples.

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