“But the facing of so vast a prejudice could not but bring the inevitable self-questioning, self-disparagement, and lowering of ideals which ever accompany repression and breed in an atmosphere of contempt and hate.”

“First World militarization of the region is more contested since the Pacific evolved from a strange place with a few watering ports and frontier outposts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into a strategic area for superpower nuclear politics, ocean and land mining, and First World dumping in the twentieth century.”

“The geographic boundaries I have been discussing accompany the social, ethnic, and cultural ones in expected ways. Yet very often the sense in which someone feels himself to be not-foreign is based on a very unrigorous idea of what is ‘out there’, beyond one’s own territory. All kinds of suppositions, associations, fictions appear to crowd the unfamiliar and strange space outside one’s place…”

“Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes: in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up.”

A nurse teaches the patient about a prescribed medication, which is administered via the “Buccal” route . Which statement by the patient indicates a successful understanding of the patient education, concerning this specific mediation route?

9,432 written in verbal is: 

5/9 divided by 5 

Find greatest common divisor and reduce to lowest terms:  12/96

The sales tax in Bill’s state is 6%. Bill bought a Suburu having a sales tax of $820. What was the cost of the car? Round to the nearest dollar. 

The price of a Panasonic Flat Screen Television decreased by 1/5. If the original price was $1,500, what is the new price today?