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Duties of a Veterinary Assistant Flashcards

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5004756376Care for animals0
5004759344Clean cages1
5004768399Monitor patients2
5004773959Prepare rooms, surgical suite3
5004780271Restrain animals4
5004784946Prepare medications, instruments, equipment5
5004793020Assist with surgery6
5004804329Administer oral, topical medications7
5004820093Prepare tissue samples8
5004825763Record observations9

Ap world history period 6 Flashcards

Ap period 6 history

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4570147413FascismPolitical ideology marked by it's intense nationalism and authoritarianism0
4570147414Great depressionWorldwide economic depression that began in 1929 with The New York stark market crash and continued in many areas until the outbreak of world War two1
4570147415Adolf HitlerLeader of the German Nazi party in head of state from 1933 until his death2
4570147417Marshall planPuget US government initiative to aid in the post-World War II restoration of Europe masterminded by US secretary of state George Marshall3
4570147418Mussolini BenitoCharismatic leader of the Indian fascist party4
4570147419NATONorth Atlantic treaty organisation have a military and political alliance founded in 1949 that committed the US to the defence of Europe in an event a soviet aggression5
4570147421New dealReforms enacted by the FDR Administration between 19 33-1942 with the goal of the ending of the great depression6
4570147422Total warWar that requires each country involved to mobilise its entire population in the effort to defeat army7
4570147423Treaty of versailles1919 treaty that officially ended World War I8
457014742414 pointsProposed by US President Woodrow Wilson especially noted for its idealistic approach to the end of world War one9
4570147428BolsheviksRussian revolutionary party lead by Lenin and later renamed the Communist party10
4570147430Chinese revolutionLong revolutionary process from 19 12-19 49 that began with the overthrow of the Chinese imperial system and ended with the triumph of the communis party11
4570147431CollectivizationPrices of rual reform undertaken by the communis leadership of both the USSR and china in which private property rates were abolished and persons were forced into larger and more industrialise forums to walk in and share the proceeds out as a community rather than individuals12
4570147432Cuban Missle crisisMajor stand-off between the US and the soviet union in 1962 over Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba13
4570147433Cultural revolutionMassive campaign in China launched by mao Zedong in the mid nineteen sixties to combat the capital list tendencies that he believed reached into even the highest ranks of the communist parties14
4570147434Mikhail GarbachevLeader of the soviet union from 1985 to 1991 who's afferents to reform the USSR lead to its collapse15
4570147435Great purgesRita purges of the 1930s were in massive attempt to cleanse the soul the union I was supposed enemies of people16
4570147436GlasnostGorbachev's reform policy of openness watch permitted in on President to the range of culture and intellectual freedom17
4570147437Mai ZedongChairman of China's communist party18
4570147438PerestroikaBold economic program launched in 1987 by Gorbachev with the intention of freeing up Soviet industry and businesses19
4570147439Russian RevolutionMassive revolutionary are people in 1917 that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by communists under the leadership of lenin20
4570147440StalinLeader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death21
4570147441Ayatollah KhomeiniImportant Shia Ayatollah who became the leader of Iran's Islam Eric revolution and mold I ran from 1979 until his death in 198922
4570147443DecolonizationProcess in which many African and Asian states won their independence from Western colonial rule23
4570147444Mohandes K GandhiUsually referred to as Mahatma A political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian driver independence from Great Britain24
4570147445Nelson MandelaSouth African nationalist and leader of African national Congress who was imprisoned for 27 years on charges of treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the government of south Africa he was elected to be the president in south Africa in 199425
4570147446SatyagrahaLiterally, truth force; Gandhi's political philosophy which advocated confrontational but nonviolent political action26
4570147447Sowetoimpoverished Black neighborhood outside Johannesburg,South Africa, the site of a violent uprising in 1976 in which hundreds were killed27

Vocab 7: AP Language: Semester 2 Flashcards

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5973166412narrationThe telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse.0
5973166413pacingthe movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another1
5973166414paradoxa statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning Example: "I can resist anything but temptation." -Oscar Wilde2
5973168225metonymya figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated Example: We must wait to hear from the crown until we make any further decisions.3
5973168226oversimplificationwhen a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument4
5973168344parallelismthe technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form Example: "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - President Lincoln at Gettysburg5
5973170312moodsimilar to tone; the primary emotional attitude of a work; syntax is an important factor6
5973170313oxymorona figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases7

AP World History Chapter 14 Vocabulary Flashcards

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7842677953African DiasporaName given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.0
7842677954BeninWest African kingdom (in what is now Nigeria) whose strong kings sharply limited engagement with the slave trade.1
7842677955British/ Dutch East India companiesPrivate trading companies chartered by the governments of England and the Netherlands around 1600; they were given monopolies on Indian Ocean trade, including the right to make war and to rule conquered peoples.2
7842677956DahomeyWest African kingdom that became strong through its rulers' exploitation of the slave trade.3
7842677957Ayuba Suleiman DialloSold into slavery in West Africa and transported to work on a plantation in Maryland in 1730, this well-educated Muslim (1700-1773) became a celebrity in England because of his life story. He returned to his home in West Africa in 1734 after philanthropists brought his freedom.4
7842677958Indian Ocean commercial networkThe massive, interconnected web of commerce in premodern times between the lands that bordered on the Indian Ocean (including East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia); the network was badly disrupted by Portuguese intrusion beginning around 1500.5
7842677959PotosiCity that developed high in the Andes (in present-day Bolivia) at the site of the world's largest silver mine and that became the largest city in the Americas, with a population of some 160,000 in the 1570s.6
7842677960Silver DrainTerm often used, along with "specie drain" to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East, a process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets; eventually, the bulk of the world's silver supply made its way to China.7
7842677961Soft GoldNicknames used in early modern period for animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it.8
7842677962Philippines (Spanish)An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process that extended for the century or so after 1565, a process accompanied by a major effort at evangelization; the Spanish named them the Philippine Islands in honor of King Philip II of Spain.9
7842677963Tokugawa shogunateMilitary rulers of Japan who successfully unified Japan politically by the early seventeenth century and established a "closed door" policy toward European encroachments.10
7842677964Trading post empireForm of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.11
7842677965Banda IslandsInfamous case of the Dutch forcibly taking control of the spice trade; nearly the entire population of these nutmeg producing islands was killed or enslaved and then replaced with Dutch planters.12
7842677966CartazA pass that the Portuguese required of all merchant vessels attempting to trade in the Indian Ocean.13
7842677967DaimyoFeudal lords of Japan who ruled with virtual independence thanks to their bands of samurai warriors.14
7842677968HuronsNative American people of northeastern North America who were heavily involved in the fur trade.15
7842677969Little Ice AgeA period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era.16
7842677970Magellan, FerdinandPortuguese mariner who commanded the first European (Spanish) fleet to circumnavigate the globe (1519-1521).17
7842677971ManillaCapital of the Spanish Philippines and a major multicultural trade city that already had a population of more than 40,000 by 1600.18
7842677972Middle PassageName commonly given to the journey across the Atlantic undertaken by African slaves being shipped to the Americas.19
7842677973Piece of EightStandard Spanish coin that became a medium of exchange in North America, Europe, India, Russia, and West Africa, as well as in the Spanish Empire; so called because it was worth 8 reales.20
7842677974SamuraiThe warrior elite of medieval Japan.21
7842677975ShogunIn Japan, a supreme military commander.22

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6737621511Big geography and the peopling of Earth.Period 10
6737621512The Neolithic revolution and early agricultural societies.Period 11
6737621513The development and interactions of early agricultural, pastoral, and urban societies.Period 12
6737621514The development and codification of religious and cultural tradition.Period 23
6737621515The development of states and empires.Period 24
6737621516Emergence of interregional networks of communication and exchange.Period 25
6737621517Expansion and intensification of communication and exchange networksPeriod 36
6737621518Continuity and innovation of state forms and their interactions.Period 37
6737621519Increased economic productive capacity and its consequences.Period 38
6737621520Globalization networks of communication and exchangePeriod 49
6737621521New forms of social organization and modes of production.Period 410
6737621522State consolidation and imperial expansion.Period 411
6737621523Industrialization and global capitalism.Period 512
6737621524Imperialism and nation-state formation.Period 513
6737621525Nationalism, revolutions, and reformPeriod 514
6737621526Global migration.Period 515
6737621527Science and the environment.Period 616
6737621528Global conflicts and their consequences.Period 617
6737621529New conceptualizations of global economy, society, and their culture.Period 618

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