With regard to public opinion, the supreme court: (a) ignores it in order to make decisions that are based on enduring values rather than the public's passing whims. (b) remains uninformed about it because justices stay on the bench for life and never face the public scrutiny of an election. (c) attempts to stay close enough to public opinion so as to avoid outright defiance of its decisions. (d) attempts to follow it very closely in order to create public enthusiasm for its rulings. (e) none of these answers is correct.

Though most presidents have claimed affiliation with a christian church, the only roman catholic president has been a) abraham lincoln. b) john f. kennedy. c) george washington. d) franklin d. roosevelt.

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.

List one personal value and explain why it’s important to you