USGS maps identify potential ground-shaking hazards in 2017 from both human-induced and natural earthquakes in the central and eastern U. S., known as the CEUS. The overall seismic hazard for 2017 is lower than in the 2016 forecast, but despite this decrease, there is still a significant likelihood for damaging ground shaking in the CEUS in the year ahead. Despite the decrease in the overall number of earthquakes in 2016, Oklahoma experienced the largest earthquake ever recorded in the state as well as the greatest number of large earthquakes compared to any prior year. The chance of damage from induced earthquakes will continue to fluctuate depending on policy and industry decisions What conclusion would you draw based on this text?

This chart shows the number of soldiers killed according to two different sources. source a is a book written by university professors. source b is from a well-known historical website. in a paragraph, explain why the data presented is different, and evaluate the reliability of each source. which should be used in a school research project, and why?

In writing about her findings in a brazilian shantytown, nancy scheper-hughes’s account of alto do cruzeiro provides a window into the terrible toll of nonconsensual organ harvesting among the poor, as well as how she herself changed over time. how might an anthropologist justify the publication of this ethnographic research when considering the problem of ethnographic authority? a. all of the poor must be given an equal voice, thus polyvocality is justification. b. anthropologists are themselves changed in fieldwork, and so honest reflexivity is justification. c. the horrific conditions made it impossible to ignore, and since she obtained informed consent, this is justification. d. authoritative writing asks us to consider what right we have to report, thus a moral challenge is justification.

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery