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When discussing environmental factors, you mention to your f…

When discussing environmental factors, you mention to your friend that Heat exhaustion commonly includes:

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John Locke, Excerpts from the Second Treatise of Government…

John Locke, Excerpts from the Second Treatise of Government   Recommended citation: Locke, John, Second Treatise of Government (1688), Online Resource, Section #.     CHAPTER. II. OF THE STATE OF NATURE.   [Professor’s note: pay special attention to how reason is connected both to the laws of nature and human nature.]   Sect. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. Question: What does Locke mean by “perfect freedom…within the bounds of the law of nature”? A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more power than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, born with the same advantages of nature, and the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection… Question: what does Locke mean by “equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal”? Sect. 5. This equality of men by nature, the judicious Hooker looks upon as so evident in itself, and beyond all question, that he makes it the foundation of that obligation to mutual love amongst men, on which he builds the duties they owe one another, and from whence he derives the great maxims of justice and charity… Sect. 6. But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker…and being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us, that may authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another’s uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for ours. Every one, as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station wilfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another. Question: use the idea of reason as the foundation of the law of nature to connect the bolded passages together. The first law of nature = The second law of nature = Sect. 7. And that all men may be restrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of nature is, in that state, put into every man’s hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree, as may hinder its violation… Question: what does “execution of the law of nature” mean? Can you think of any real-life scenarios where this happens? Do they tend to work out well? Sect. 8. And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no absolute or arbitrary power…but only to retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression…In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity…and so he becomes dangerous to mankind…Which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of nature…EVERY MAN HATH A RIGHT TO PUNISH THE OFFENDER, AND BE EXECUTIONER OF THE LAW OF NATURE… Sect. 14. It is often asked as a mighty objection, were there ever any men in such a state of nature? To which it may suffice as an answer at present, that since all princes and rulers of independent governments all through the world, are in a state of nature, it is plain the world never was, nor ever will be, without numbers of men in that state. I have named all governors of independent communities, whether they are, or are not, in league with others: for it is not every compact that puts an end to the state of nature between men, but only this one of agreeing together mutually to enter into one community, and make one body politic; other promises, and compacts, men may make one with another, and yet still be in the state of nature. The promises and bargains for truck, &c. between the two men in the desert island, mentioned by Garcilasso de la Vega, in his history of Peru; or between a Swiss and an Indian, in the woods of America, are binding to them, though they are perfectly in a state of nature, in reference to one another: for truth and keeping of faith belongs to men, as men, and not as members of society…. Question: what kind of premise is John Locke’s idea of the state of nature (empirical or analytic)? What is his response to the objection that “were there ever any men in such a state of nature?” Do you find his response to this objection sufficient, why or why not? Question: does the law of nature obligate men to keep their word?    

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Respond to each of the following questions.  1/2 point each…

Respond to each of the following questions.  1/2 point each A.   This is achest image.   B.  This chest Xray is rotated enough to be repeated C.  Scapula are out of the lung field on this image D  All required anatomy is visible on this image E.  This image has a deep enough inspiration E.  This image should be  

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  Referring to the above image respond to each of the follow…

  Referring to the above image respond to each of the following questions.  1/2 point each question A.   This is achest image.   B.  The red star is located on rib number C.  The red star is located onrib. D.  This chest Xray is rotated enough to be repeated E.  Scapula are out of the lung field on this image F.  All required anatomy is visible on this image G.  This body habitus of this image most closely resembles H.  The marker is appropriately placed in this image I.  This image has an deep enough inspiration J.  This image should be: 

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  CHAPTER. V.    OF PROPERTY. [Professor’s note: this chapte…

  CHAPTER. V.    OF PROPERTY. [Professor’s note: this chapter is Locke’s greatest unintentional contribution to political theory, as it sets the foundation for what is later known as the labor theory of value. This chapter is quite important to the overall argument, because it shows that property does exist in a state of nature, and that a revolution would be unjustified in taking away the property of persons, that is, a revolution would be limited to a change in government, but would have to leave ownership of property largely untouched. Notice also the use of tacit consent and the laws of nature. This chapter is also important for both libertarian and Marxist approaches in political theory.]   Sect. 25. Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence: or revelation…it is very clear, that God has given the earth to the children of men; given it to mankind in common. But this being supposed, it seems to some a very great difficulty, how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing?…But I shall endeavour to shew, how men might come to have a property in several parts of that which God gave to mankind in common, and that without any express compact of all the commoners. Sect. 26. God, who hath given the world to men in common, hath also given them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience…. And no body has originally a private dominion, exclusive of the rest of mankind, in any of them, as they are thus in their natural state: yet being given for the use of men, there must of necessity be a means to appropriate them some way or other, before they can be of any use, or at all beneficial to any particular man. The fruit, or venison, which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his, i.e. a part of him, that another can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of his life. Sect. 27. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men: for this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others. Sect. 30. Thus this law of reason makes the deer that Indian’s who hath killed it; it is allowed to be his goods, who hath bestowed his labour upon it, though before it was the common right of every one. And amongst those who are counted the civilized part of mankind, who have made and multiplied positive laws to determine property, this original law of nature, for the beginning of property, in what was before common, still takes place… Sect. 31. The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too…But how far has he given it us? To enjoy. As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labour fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy… Sect. 33. Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use…. Sect. 36. The measure of property nature has well set by the extent of men’s labour and the conveniencies of life: no man’s labour could subdue, or appropriate all; nor could his enjoyment consume more than a small part; so that it was impossible for any man, this way, to intrench upon the right of another, or acquire to himself a property, to the prejudice of his neighbour, who would still have room for as good, and as large a possession (after the other had taken out his) as before it was appropriated. This measure did confine every man’s possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in… Sect. 37. This is certain, that in the beginning, before the desire of having more than man needed had altered the intrinsic value of things, which depends only on their usefulness to the life of man; or had agreed, that a little piece of yellow metal, which would keep without wasting or decay, should be worth a great piece of flesh, or a whole heap of corn; though men had a right to appropriate, by their labour, each one of himself, as much of the things of nature, as he could use: yet this could not be much, nor to the prejudice of others, where the same plenty was still left to those who would use the same industry. Sect. 38. The same measures governed the possession of land too: whatsoever he tilled and reaped, laid up and made use of, before it spoiled, that was his peculiar right; whatsoever he enclosed, and could feed, and make use of, the cattle and product was also his. But if either the grass of his enclosure rotted on the ground, or the fruit of his planting perished without gathering, and laying up, this part of the earth, notwithstanding his enclosure, was still to be looked on as waste, and might be the possession of any other…. Sect. 40. Nor is it so strange, as perhaps before consideration it may appear, that the property of labour should be able to over-balance the community of land: for it is labour indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing; and let any one consider what the difference is between an acre of land planted with tobacco or sugar, sown with wheat or barley, and an acre of the same land lying in common, without any husbandry upon it, and he will find, that the improvement of labour makes the far greater part of the value. I think it will be but a very modest computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man nine tenths are the effects of labour: nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come to our use, and cast up the several expences about them, what in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them ninety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour… Sect. 44. From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property; and that, which made up the great part of what he applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had improved the conveniencies of life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others. Sect. 47. And thus came in the use of money, some lasting thing that men might keep without spoiling, and that by mutual consent men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable supports of life. Sect. 48. And as different degrees of industry were apt to give men possessions in different proportions, so this invention of money gave them the opportunity to continue and enlarge them… Sect. 50. But since gold and silver, being little useful to the life of man in proportion to food, raiment, and carriage, has its value only from the consent of men, whereof labour yet makes, in great part, the measure, it is plain, that men have agreed to a disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth, they having, by a tacit and voluntary consent, found out, a way how a man may fairly possess more land than he himself can use the product of, by receiving in exchange for the overplus gold and silver, which may be hoarded up without injury to any one; these metals not spoiling or decaying in the hands of the possessor. This partage of things in an inequality of private possessions, men have made practicable out of the bounds of society, and without compact, only by putting a value on gold and silver, and tacitly agreeing in the use of money: for in governments, the laws regulate the right of property, and the possession of land is determined by positive constitutions. Sect. 51. And thus, I think, it is very easy to conceive, without any difficulty, how labour could at first begin a title of property in the common things of nature, and how the spending it upon our uses bounded it. So that there could then be no reason of quarrelling about title, nor any doubt about the largeness of possession it gave. Right and conveniency went together; for as a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon, so he had no temptation to labour for more than he could make use of. This left no room for controversy about the title, nor for encroachment on the right of others; what portion a man carved to himself, was easily seen; and it was useless, as well as dishonest, to carve himself too much, or take more than he needed.    

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Which of the following is an appropriate method for estimati…

Which of the following is an appropriate method for estimating the size of a sessile organism population (i.e., organisms that don’t move)?

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In a mark-recapture study, 100 fish are captured, marked, an…

In a mark-recapture study, 100 fish are captured, marked, and released into a lake. A week later, 200 fish are captured, and 20 of them are marked. What is the estimated total population size of fish in the lake?    

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I understand that assessments are closed book assessments. …

I understand that assessments are closed book assessments.  I understand that the exam area must be clear of study notes, formula sheets and electronic studying information.

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I understand that I must contact Honorlock Support immediately if I experience technical issues during an exam.  If I wait until the end of the exam, NOTHING can be done.

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