What reason did President James K. Polk give when he asked Congress to declare war against Mexico?

2. explain the two different types of egyptian calendars. 3. what architectural advances did the ancient egyptians make? what impact do these advances have on our lives today? 4. what did egyptian art usually depict? how does this compare to forms of art that we see today? 5. what all was found in king tut’s tomb?

Athief was passing by a house under construction when he noticed that the ladder being used by workers on the roof had copper braces supporting the rungs. after making sure that the workers on the roof could not see him, the thief used pliers that he had in his pocket to remove all of the copper braces that he could reach from the ground. a short time later, a worker climbed down the ladder and it collapsed. he fell to the ground and severely injured his back. the thief was apprehended a few hours later trying to sell the copper for scrap. a statute in the jurisdiction makes it a felony for "maliciously causing serious physical injury to another." the thief was charged with malicious injury under the statute and was also charged with larceny. after a jury trial in which the above facts were presented, he was convicted of both charges. if he appeals the conviction for the malicious injury charge on grounds of insufficient evidence, how should the court rule? a affirm the conviction, because the thief was engaged in criminal conduct at the time of the act that resulted in the injury. b affirm the conviction, because the jury could have found that the thief acted with malice. c reverse the conviction, because there was no evidence that the thief intended to injure anyone. d reverse the conviction, because there was no evidence that the thief bore any malice towards the workers on the roof.

1. according to the article, the chinese government has tried to control its people in all of the following ways except: question 1 options: create and spread propaganda in the media censorship of the media allowing people to create their own social media deleting people's social media posts without their permission when a government has total control over its citizens, including the media, it is a of government question 2 options: constitutional monarchy parliamentary democracy autocracy presidential democracy according to the article, "social credit" is question 3 options: an experiment to people talk on-line a farming experiment that hurt people under mao ze dong using someone else's data from the internet, to give or take away things such as the right to buy an airline ticket a credit you get in china for having friends in real life, and not just on social media china wants to take control over social media in which other region? question 4 options: taiwan chile japan hong kong