Short Essay One:                           [75 points: CHOOSE ONE]In 3 to 5 paragraphs, answer One of the following questions. A good answer will have a clear argument that is supported by evidence (specific examples). Organize your essay with a logical structure and use topic sentences to make the logic of your answer clear.Explain how the United States changed in the fifty years since the end of the Civil War. Your answer should account for political, economic, and social developments.How is the history of America’s westward expansion a story of both triumph and tragedy?

Choose Five of the following key terms & write One paragraph (or bulleted list) identifying each term you choose. Only choose 5. No credit will be awarded for attempting more than 5 terms.William Jennings BryanGreat Railroad StrikeEugene DebsKnight of LaborGhost DancePromontory PointFrontier ThesisChief JosephBirth of a NationWilliam “Boss” TweedRedeemersNew ImmigrantsFrancis Benjamin JohnstonChinese Exclusion ActU.S.S. MaineGreat White FleetBull Moose PartyMuckrakersJane AddamsW.E.B. DuboisZimmerman TelegramArchduke Franz FerdinandRMS LusitaniaSchlieffen Plan

Complete the following short answer essay for up to 5 bonus points.    The “wedding cake” model of criminal justice can give lawyers the status of celebrities. You have been a public prosecutor for years, and are looking to make a move into the private sector. You have been assigned a high-profile case: the quarterback of your city’s professional hockey team has been accused of murdering his girlfriend. You already have a book offer, and know the media pressure will be high to take the case through a trial. The defense attorney is signaling her client may want to plea bargain. How will you decide how to proceed?  

“No sweetness of honey could be sweet to me when I saw the dragon and saw the mice gnawing away my support.”

PART B. IDENTIFICATIONS: The following passages come from the readings you have done for the semester. For this part of the exam, you are to name the author of FIVE of these passages and interpret these same FIVE passages, each in a coherent paragraph. In “interpreting a passage,” you should give its context within the author’s argument, the meaning of the passage, and how it relates to other ideas in the author’s argument or the wider course. Use as many specific details as possible.

“Since, therefore, there exists a twofold truth concerning the divine being, one to which the inquiry of the reason can reach, the other which surpasses the whole ability of the human reason, it is fitting that both of these truths be proposed to man divinely for belief.”

While reviewing a client’s home medication list, the nurse reads they take pantoprazole 40 mg daily before breakfast. The nurse would expect the client to report which medication condition?

“What makes man happy? Indeed our final good is that for the sake of which other things are desired, but which is itself desired for its own sake.”

“We have given you birth, nurtured you, educated you; we have given you and all other citizens a share of all the good things we could.  Even so, by giving every Athenian the opportunity once arrived at voting age and having observed the affairs of the city and us the laws, we proclaim that if we do not please him, he can take his possessions and go wherever he pleases…We say, however, that whoever of you remains, when he sees how we conduct our trials and manage the city in other ways, has in fact come to an agreement with us to obey our instructions.”

According to one of the video lectures assigned to class the terms “people, planet, profit” refer to: