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    Analyse how contrast was used to communicate an important message or idea ‘Once Were Warriors’ Directed by Lee Tamahori and based on the novel by Alan Duff is a powerful‚ hard hitting film‚ seething with raw emotion and pride. It is a film about strength and power of culture and belonging and these ideas are displayed through the contrast of characters‚ setting and music and sound effects. Characters are the heart of this film. Complex and brutally real‚ they are portrayed in daring and passionate

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    What were the economic and social results of the agricultural revolution? Agricultural revolution often called as Neolithic revolution is period when people started to produce food. Before agricultural revolution people obtained food through hunting and gathering. However during the agricultural revolution‚ people learned how to produce food by farming or ranching. Thus Neolithic people could end their nomadic life. People started to settle in one place. Also thanks to the agricultural revolution

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    Instead of the law‚ And Then There Were None cares more about morals‚ which is much more unclear‚ objective‚ and uncertain than the law. For instance‚ in Emily Brent’s case‚ she is accused of killing Beatrice Taylor‚ her servant who got pregnant without getting married. However‚ Miss Brent did not kill Beatrice directly‚ but drove her away from her house. Beatrice later committed suicide‚ but Miss Brent does not think she should be responsible for her death at all. Wargrave‚ on the contrary‚ considers

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    choices show carelessness or confusion between force and speed‚ and what constant acceleration means. 2. When you drop a ball it accelerates downward at 9.8 m/s2. If you instead throw it downward‚ then its acceleration immediately after leaving your hand‚ assuming no air resistance‚ is A. 9.8 m/s2. B. more than 9.8 m/s2. C. less than 9.8 m/s2. D. Cannot say‚ unless the speed of throw is given. A is correct. Choices B and D indicate confusion between speed and acceleration. 3. A heavy rock

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    development of the American colonies had six different factors contributing to it. They were the Enlightenment‚ European population explosion‚ Glorious Revolution‚ Great Awakening‚ mercantilism‚ and Religious tolerance. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that challenged the authority of the church in science and philosophy while elevating the power of human reason. One of the most influential Enlightenment writers was John Locke. He argued with the church that people were not born with

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    Mercantilism is an economic theory where a nation’s strength comes from building up gold supplies and expanding its trade. Britain formed the American colonies so that they could increase their gold stores. They wanted raw supplies to make into products to sell and make money. They wanted America to pay taxes so that Britain could make money. America used the theory in that they thought they ought to‚ in order to be strong expand their trade beyond Britain. Countries like Belgium‚ and France wanted

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    Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin‚ by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur? Underline your thesis statement in all DBQ and FRQ responses in class and during the AP Exam. Example 1 (Good) In the early 1600s‚ disaffected English emigrants began settling on the eastern seaboard of North America. Although the initial settlements in New England and the Chesapeake region were largely settled by

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    The colonies from the 1700s and today have many differences and similarities in natural resources. I will compare the differences in natural resources of current day New Jersey‚ New York‚ and Pennsylvania to their colonial counterparts. These states have grown in natural resources since their colonial days. Pennsylvania in the 1700s had a lot of natural resources. Back in colonial times coal and iron were Pennsylvania’s natural resources. Today Pennsylvania has a great mine that produces most of

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    Those living in the American colonies in the seventeenth century faced many challenges. These tensions of political‚ social‚ religious and economic natures came from abroad and within. Influences of the political and economic nature from abroad onto the established American colonies shifted the shape and nature of the colonies; whereas‚ the social and religious tensions from abroad tended to create new colonies. The Quakers‚ for instance‚ were a group of English Protestants who left England in

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    experience‚ as the lifestyle of African Americans varied depending upon the circumstances of which they were under. At this time‚ black people were commonly mistreated by white Americans. There was a portion of African Americans who were enslaved and a portion of them that were free. Given that those that were enslaved were to be considered the property of their white slave owners‚ slaves were subjected to much harsher conditions by them. Enslaved African Americans would have to endure both physiological

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