AP® WORLD HISTORY 2007 SCORING GUIDELINES Question 2—Continuity/Change Over Time BASIC CORE (competence) 0–7 Points 1. Has acceptable thesis. 1 Point • The thesis correctly specifies both change and continuity in the formation of national identity in the region of the Middle East‚ Southeast Asia‚ OR Sub-Saharan Africa from 1914 to the present. • The thesis must be explicitly stated in the introduction or the conclusion of the essay. • The thesis may appear as one sentence or as multiple
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In Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ the character Sethe views the past with feelings of longing because she was a former slave who endured a tough life. Due to Sethe’s longing feelings‚ the theme of slavery as a destruction of one’s identity is developed in the work. Sethe is an enslaved woman in Cincinnati‚ Ohio who is determined to escape to freedom in the 1850’s. In order to keep her children from any trauma from Sweet Home‚ she attempts to murder them. She manages to kill Beloved and her two older
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Chapter 23 The "Bloody Shirt" Elects Grant The Republicans nominated General Grant for the presidency in 1868. The Republican Party supported the continuation of the Reconstruction of the South‚ while Grant stood on the platform of "just having peace." The Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour. Grant won the election of 1868. The Era of Good Stealings Jim Fisk and Jay Gould devised a plot to drastically raise the price of the gold market in 1869. On "Black Friday‚" September 24‚ 1869‚ the two bought
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Mirroring the acceptance of the haunting of Beloved’s baby ghost‚ these portray inverse forms of facing traumatic memories. Furthermore‚ Morrison reflects the role of storyteller through utilizing familiar elements to convey a message‚ in reimagining Beloved through the lens of Denver’s birth‚ a story often told by Sethe. The emergence of a physically present ghost creates an atmosphere that forces memories to resurface for Sethe‚ and “the gothic not only grows real‚ it also grows in scope‚ taking up
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to be called Beloved‚ is infatuated with Sethe and has the characteristics of Sethe’s daughter who has been deceased for eighteen years. The events of eighteen years prior are retold as members of the community continue to question Sethe’s choice and the actions leading up to Sethe killing her own daughter in order to save the young girl from the torment of slavery. While in Beloved’s company‚ Sethe is able to express her own past and the past of her mother. In this passage‚ Beloved shares with
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A Far Cry from Africa By Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was a black poet writing from within both the English tradition and the history of his people. The speaker is conflicted‚ on the one hand he loves his native homeland in Kenya and he does not want to see his people being slaughtered and treated the way they are now. He also loves his English home‚ but if he stays in Britain‚ He feels that he is letting down his people by not going back to his native homeland to help with defending Kenya from
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of the severe social conflicts and economic downfall linked with England’s exploring into the Industrial Revolution. Conditions in the new industrial and coal-mining areas were harsh. One of England’s most famous poet Elizabeth Barrett’s poem “The Cry of the Children” (1843) convey her thoughts to an official report on child labor that describes children straining their bodies by working sixteen hours a day in horrible conditions. Victorian writers were more worried about social difficulties‚ unlike
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AP United States History Course Long Plan Course Description This course examines the major political‚ diplomatic‚ social‚ cultural‚ and economic developments in the United States from Pre-Columbian times to the present. It is a survey class that prepares the student to take the Advanced Placement examination in United States History in May of the junior year. The district has created a two year program because the high school is on a modified AB 4 x 4 block schedule. Additionally‚ district
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have taken the main roads and stop hiding‚ “They saw twelve dead blacks in the first eighteen miles”(pg.317) “In the place where once a shaft of sad red light had bathed him‚ locking him where he stood‚ is nothing”(pg.318) Paul D perceives that Beloved has gone‚ the baby´s ghost is gone. “I think I might have lost my mother Paul D”(pg.314) Sethe has no plans; she is just all day in Baby´s Bed. Maybe wanting to die there as Baby did. “Sethe‚ me and you‚ we got more yesterday than anybody.
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English III AP - AP( English Language and Composition Course Overview The English III AP (or AP( English Language and Composition) course objectives are to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods‚ disciplines‚ and rhetorical contexts” and to help students become “skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes” (The College Board‚ AP( English Course Description‚ May 2007‚ May 2008‚ p. 6). Students are expected to read critically‚ think analytically
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