] Gerrit Rietveld Academy Basicyear Longlist Exam Questions 2013 1. Why can modern day man‚ not be granted authority to disclaim cultural expressions that is foreign to that of himself from/as being art? 2. Breton wrote in 1929 ’The problem of women is the most marvellous and disturbing problem in the world’. Explain the place of woman in the surrealist movement. The place of woman in the surrealist movement is divided in two. On one hand the woman are used as muses for artists and is
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The Progressive Era was a thirty year period in which the United States was completely reformed. Actions were taken to improve working conditions for laborers‚ create a sexually unbiased work system and regulate the economy. President Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson both helped create a more direct democracy in which the people would have a voice. During those thirty years‚ amendments 16 to 19 were ratified to regulate and reform the country. Muckrakers were writers who worked for the printing
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Andrew Meiborg Dr. Mary P. Dalles English 1130-07 2 April 2014 Response to “People Like Us” In the essay “People Like Us”‚ Brooks states that maybe we are indeed a diverse nation when considered as a whole‚ but when you look at us on the community level‚ we are homogenous. Brooks describes numerous ways in which Americans separate themselves from one another. Overall‚ I agree with the points made by Brooks and can draw many similarities to my own life. For example‚ when Brooks describes how
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AP US HISTORY ID’s/ Objective Questions ID’s 1) The English Civil War- The English Civil War took place during the years 1642-1646. The English Civil War was the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects‚ generally called the “parliamentarians‚” that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth. The parliamentary army’s leader‚ Oliver Cromwell‚ during the so-called Commonwealth period ruled. But after
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Question: "From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the Unites States with an effective government. Use the documents and your knowledge of the period to evaluate this statement." Although the Articles of Confederation provided a working government for the United States‚ it was not necessarily an effectively working government; an effective government would be one that not only establishes control and authority‚ but one under which the nation flourishes. Certainly the Articles set
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Kellie Crouch Honors U.S History Britain’s financial problems accumulated over a long period of time. However after the victory following the French and Indian war‚ Britain’s financial problems increased tremendously since war was not cheap Even though Britain was victorious; there success came at a great cost. For instance‚ on January 1763 Britain was 122 million pounds (a little over two hundred million dollars in U.S. currency) in national debt. Because of Britain’s enormous debt which
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Data response question: oil production in Kazakhstan a. What advantage does Kazakhstan have in oil production? The advantage Kazakhstan has in oil production is it has major oil fields‚ especially in Tengiz and Karachaganak. This is a huge advantage because they can exploit their own oil mine which is huge and rich‚ from that‚ they can sell or exchange oil with another nearby country‚ which might not has major oil fields or don’t have oil mine to exploit. b. What risks does Kazakhstan run
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staples on the Continent‚ and interest payments on the credit they extended. Each colonial region developed its own peculiar economy. Staple export economies‚ using indentured or slave labor‚ developed in the southern colonies. Although a majority of free and indentured white colonial migrants came from towns where they had been artisans and wage laborers‚ the colonies were overwhelmingly agricultural. Farm operators relied heavily upon their families for labor. While fathers and older sons cleared
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AP WORLD HISTORY STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM ONE: “FOUNDATIONS: PREHISTORY – 600 C.E.” TERMS/IDEAS TO KNOW: 1. Pastorialism 2. Patrilineal 3. Matrilineal 4. Hominids 5. Cuneiform 6. Hammurabi’s Code of Law 7. Upper Egypt 8. Lower Egypt 9. Mandate of Heaven 10. Scholar-gentry 11. Legalism 12. city-state 13. Monotheism 14. Polytheism 15. Maize 16. Civil service examination system 17. Delian League 18. Peloponnesian League 19. Council
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and the Standards in Historical Thinking Resources 2 2 3 3 3 6 23 37 54 54 Correlations to National and State Standards 58 World History for Us All A project of San Diego State University In collaboration with the National Center for History in the Schools (UCLA) http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/ World History for Us All Big Era 7 Panorama Unit Why this unit? All too often‚ we restrict our study of modernization to the trappings of modernity—industrial capitalism
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