ch. 7 notes
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The Earth and Its People 3rd Edition Chapter 1 Outline
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classical civilizations outline
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Mesopotamia
Culture-
• Believed in many gods
• Had public, state-organized religion is most visible in the archaeological records
• Priest had the power of divination
• Cuneiform was made
• Metallurgy
State-
• Cities evolved from villages
• cities and rural farming villages were dependent on one another
• made of many small city-states
• by the third millennium BCE a king or lugal erected from Sumerian cities
Social Structure-
• slaves comes from mountain tribes
• hereditary slavery
• slaves are able to earn freedom
• the patriarchal society reinforced the elite class
• laws were created to provide answers to lifes' daily dilemmas
• a monarchal society
Egypt
Culture-
Bradbury Rhetorical Analysis
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It is an inescapable conclusion that we must come to when reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 that the people and the society he describes are not happy. They constantly search for solace in their lives and, when confronted by the obvious unhappiness of their situation, they drown their troubles in “families” and electronics. Guy Montag, on the other hand, finds his own solace and newness in life through connection to the opposite, as Bradbury shows through specific rhetorical strategies in this passage.
ap world history- chapter 1
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AP World History - Stearns
Chapter 1 – From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations
I. Introduction
A. Human origin – 2.5 million years ago
1. 1/4000 of earth’s existence – 24 hour day – last 5 minutes
B. Human negatives and positives
1. Aggressiveness, long baby time, back problems, death fears
2. Grip, high/regular sex drive, omnivores, facial expressions, speech
C. Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age – 2.5 million to 12000 BCE
1. Simple tools – increase in size, brain capacity – Homo erectus
II. Late Paleolithic Developments
A. Homo sapiens sapiens – 120,000 years ago – killed off others?
a. Population growth required change – 1 square mile to hunt/gather for 2 people
i. Long breast feeding – limit fertility
American Pageant 13th edition Chapter 8 outline
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire (1775-1783) The Colonies just wanted to have a say in how they?re ruled and they weren?t really trying for independence. The Americans started to raise money for military and seemed to be very close to a war between them and the British. The British rejected most all the repeals the Americans requested. Congress Drafts George Washington George Washington was not necessarily a great military man but he had great moral. He had good leadership skills but was chosen for more political reasons. He was chosen even though he had little experience and he lost more than he won. He wasn?t looking for money. Bunker Hill and Hessian Hirelings The fight for independence finally started and the king formally declared the colonies as rebellious.
Eight Themes of Biology (trite study guide)
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1. Which of the following properties do we associate with living things?
a. evolutionary processes
b.energy processing
c.responding to the environment
d.growth and reproduction
2.Which of the following is not a theme that unifies biology?
a.interaction with the environment
b.emergent properties
c.evolution
d.reductionism
e.structure and function
3. A localized group of organisms that belong to the same species is called a
a.biosystem
b.community
c.population
d.ecosystem
e.family
4.For most ecosystems ____ is(are) the ultimate source of energy, and energy leaves the ecosystem in the form of ___.
a.sunlight;heat
b.heat;light
c.plants;animals
d.plants;heat
e.producers;consumers
5.A type of protein critical to all cells is organic catalysts called
Chapter 6: Roman and Han China
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Tone
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Tone is a noun – so the description of tone is always an adjective and more specifically, an adjective of attitude:
Attitude of pleasure – peaceful, cheerful, joyful, playful, satisfied
Attitude of pain – worried, vexed, annoyed, sorrowful, sullen, bitter, irritable, disgusted, disappointed
Attitude of passion – nervous, hysterical, reckless, desperate, furious, enraged, angry, jealous
Attitude of self-control – calm, solemn, serene, gentle, temperate, wary, cautious, nonchalant
Attitude of friendliness – cordial, tolerant, gracious, compassionate, pitying, loving, tender
Attitudes of unfriendliness – sharp, cutting, spiteful, scornful, contemptuous, belittling, disparaging
Attitudes of comedy – ironic, mocking, playful, humorous, facetious, flippant
SAT Vocabulary #3
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David Kang Per. 5 10/5/10 English SAT Vocabulary #3 Definitions artifice (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive trickery; guile; craftiness cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness cacophony an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds harsh discordance of sound; dissonance a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds dastardly evil and cruel cowardly; meanly base; sneaking effete weak and without much power lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent unable to produce; sterile fetter (n. , v.) to keep someone within limits or stop them making progress to tie someone to a place by putting chains around their ankles a chain or shackle placed on the feet (Usually, fetters) anything that confines or restrains harpy a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; shrew
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