then scoop up Burn oil Use chemicals to biodegrade it * 257 oil spills annually * 1 gallon of motor oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of fresh water = years supply for 50 people. * U.S.A wastes 1.3 billion gallons of oil each year Earthquakes * 80% occur near ring of fire * Measured on Richter scale (1-10) * Plate moves as fast as fingernail grows * Release of energy in earth’s crust creates seismic waves/tremors * 10
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1 Renaissance on the Italian Peninsula Constantinople had been captured by Turks in 1453‚ which cut trade routes to East. Greek scholars fled to Italy with their classical knowledge and materials. ("end" of Middle Ages‚ "beginning" of Renaissance) 2 1st country to break with the Church England (Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church to divorce and remarry) 3 # of City States in Italy 12 4 The 3 Humanist Principles individual worth (improving humans through study) strong commitment
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Chapter 17 Vocabulary 1. William Henry Harrison - "Old Tippecanoe"‚ 9th President‚ "log cabins and hard cider" 2. Daniel Webster - Secretary of State‚ Whig‚ Only member of Tyler Cabinet to not resign‚ negotiating treaty with Britain over Maine’s boundary 3. Henry Clay - The Whig candidate for president in the election of 1844 4. John Tyler (1841) - Leader elected vice president on the Whig ticket who spent most of his presidency in bitter fueds with his fellow Whigs 5. Canadian insurrection
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Chapter 15 Vocabulary Deism- the liberal religious philosophy of the late 1800s that believed in a Supreme Being who had created a knowable universe and endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior. Unitarians- the spin-off of Puritanism of the early 1800s that held that God only existed in one person‚ not the Trinity. Second Great Awakening- the movement that arose in the early 1800s in reaction to the growing liberalism in religion. Charles Grandison Finney- the greatest of the
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Geography Study Notes Chapter 9: The Changing Nature of the World • Every person in the world is part of the global village • Globalisation brings people together from all over the world through the free flow of goods‚ services‚ money and information. • The physical size of the world has not changed‚ but due to globalisation the world has “become a smaller place”. • Globalisation is the breakdown of barriers that has allowed for changes in the way we trade and communicate. • People
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Bright lights‚ colorful signs‚ and delicious smells‚ all are things that may be found in an ethnic neighborhood. An ethnic neighborhood is a neighborhood‚ where the majority‚ if not all the population is of the same belief‚ and follows the same religion. One of the most well-known neighborhoods in Chicago is Chinatown. Chinatown has many cultural traits that set it apart from neighboring areas; however there is always a looming threat of internal and external threats to its culture. China town
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(Lecture Notes: Chapter 1) 1 [CHAPTER 1] Sociology: Theory and Method WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? • Sociology is the scientific study of human social life‚ groups‚ and societies. • Sociology shows us that aspects of life we consider natural or take for granted are influenced by social and historical forces. • Sociology is a discipline that insists on studying people within their social context. Your textbook begins by defining sociology and then by asking you to consider an unlikely topic—autism—sociologically
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a. Social Location- the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. In the city of Mumbai‚ there is a thriving city and successful businesses like Bollywood. It’s beautiful‚ but in the center there is 1 square mile area that is different. This is the slum called Dharavi. To the unknown eye‚ Dharavi is a dirty poor district that has nothing to give to the community. There is garbage that is dug through‚ poverty‚ and disease. That is what you would think upon
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1. literary tradition - language that is written as well as spoken. Example: English is a literary tradition. 2. official language - in multilingual countries that language selected‚ often by the educated and politically powerful elite‚ to promote internal cohesion; usually the language of the courts and government. Example: The official language of India is Hindi. 3. Proto-Indoeuropean - hypothesized ancestral Indo-European language that is the hearth of the ancient Latin‚ Greek‚ and Sanskrit
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|Chapter 3: Classical |Civilization: India |AP World History | | | | | |The Framework for Indian History: Geography and a Formative Period | |
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