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Warren G. Harding promised a resturn to: Correct Answer: Normalcy Who was the US Secretary of Treasury under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover? Correct Answer: Andrew Mellon Economic Policy favored by Harding and Cooliding administrations? Correct Answer: Tax cuts across the board How did prohibition become a law in 1919? Correct Answer: Amendment in constitution Who was the Chicago mob boss during prohibition? Correct Answer: Al Capone Which president did prohibition end with? 2 Correct...

Where did the world first urbanize, and why? How did urbanization spread around the world, geographically? Correct Answer: - Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia in 3625 B.C. between - agriculture led to the first cities How have shares of the world's population shifted between urban and rural areas over the past several decades? Correct Answer: - The world became majority urban population in the last 200 years from industrialization - 2008 marked majority urban - The rural population h...

chemically defined (synthetic) media Correct Answer: media composed of precisely defined chemicals elements that all bacteria need Correct Answer: carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen minimal media Correct Answer: media that contains exact nutrients needed for growth and nothing extra - media is useful b/c we know exactly what's in it, but few organisms are resourceful enough to survive with only a few salts and sugars complex media Correct Answer: - it contains ...

political science Correct Answer: an academic discipline that uses science to study politics All aspects of the definition of science Correct Answer: Uses inferences, Uses empirical, not normative questions, is falsifiable, is transparent, is cumulative Inference Correct Answer: making connections between phenomena we have observed and phenomena we expect to observe Empirical vs. normative claims Correct Answer: how things are vs. how things should/ought to be Tautology 2 Correct A...

What is a Subject? Correct Answer: Any person, object, practice, or process that is observed for research purposes What is an Operational Definition? Correct Answer: Defining a word in terms of the specific process or application at hand, using a set of validation tests to determine its meaning. What is an Independent Variable? Correct Answer: A variable that is manipulated by the researcher What is a Dependent Variable? Correct Answer: The variable that is measured and is expected to...

Effect on audience members that they only retain to the first/last thing the speaker says. Correct Answer: Primacy/recency effect At the beginning of the speech, used to captivate the audience and slightly introduce your topic. Could be a rhetorical question, a quote, an imaginary statement, humorous, an anecdote, etc.. Correct Answer: Attention getter Why it is it relevant to the audience? What's in it for them? Correct Answer: Relevance statement Why are you qualified to speak about...

DDL (Data Definition Language) Correct Answer: commands to create database objects such as tables, indexes, and views, as well as commands to define access rights to those objects DML (Data Manipulation Language) Correct Answer: commands to insert, update delete and retrieve data within database tables Type of integrity is enforced when a primary key is declared Correct Answer: Entity, in create table command sequence referential constraint actions Correct Answer: Makes sure that if a p...

True or False. Regarding the United States between 1865 and 1900, the nation's population doubled. Correct Answer: False, population tripled True or False. Regarding the United States between 1865 and 1900, the economic growth of the nation was more than double that of Great Britain. Correct Answer: True True or False. Regarding the United States between 1865 and 1900, the agricultural production more than doubled. Correct Answer: True True or False. Dozens of industrial corporation...

What is research? Correct Answer: An attempt to discover something 4 types of research Correct Answer: Personal Applied- uses existing knowledge, research for a specific purpose Predictive Academic Positivism Correct Answer: do you believe that there is a "logically ordered, objective reality that we can come to know?" The Interpretive Way Correct Answer: There is not one truth, but multiple truths. It is relative to the context. 2 People are active. Meaning is the key to di...

Beta Theta Pi Correct Answer: (Beta) Delta Tau Delta Correct Answer: (Delt) Kappa Sigma Correct Answer: (Kappa Sig) Lambda Chi Alpha Correct Answer: (Lambda) Phi Delta Theta Correct Answer: (Phi Delt) Phi Gamma Delta 2 Correct Answer: (Fiji) Pi Kappa Phi Correct Answer: (Pi Kapp) Sigma Alpha Epsilon Correct Answer: (SAE) Sigma Phi Epsilon Correct Answer: (SigEp) Sigma Chi Correct Answer: (Sigma Chi) Sigma Nu Correct Answer: (Sigma Nu) Alpha Chi Omega Correct Answer: (A Ch...