Americans daily? trillion gallons Identify three causes of water pollution. sewage‚ chemical waste‚ pesticide runoff Smog is composed of which chemicals? carbon dioxide‚ nitrogen‚ and sulfur dioxide Smog‚ combined with precipitation‚ results in what harmful effect? acid rain How is burying and burning waste harmful to the environment? Burying waste causes toxic chemicals to leech into the ground water. Burning waste causes toxic ash‚ which pollutes the air and falls back to Earth
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Annotated DBQ Rubric: Buddhism in China Sample DBQ Question: Based on the following documents‚ analyze the responses to the spread of Buddhism in China. What additional kind of document(s) would you need to evaluate the extent of Buddhism’s appeal in China? Point # Generic Description Explanation/ Commentary Examples and Commentary 1 Has acceptable thesis. Thesis addresses the specific focus of the question. The thesis should reflect a sophisticated understanding of the complexities
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mass unemployment. At the same time‚ the United States also encountered a much larger influx of people migrating from Asia; the biggest group being Chinese‚ Japanese‚ and Filipino. The second wave of this migration was in part due to the liberation of the Philippines from Spanish colonization and the start of a period when the Philippines became a part of U.S. territory. This then allowed Filipinos to be unrestricted from immigrating to the United States‚ unlike other Asians who were restricted by
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group‚ including Black‚ White‚ Hispanic‚ Asian‚ Pacific Islander and American Indian living in poverty in the United States. "Newsweek" also illustrates the number of people living in poverty by race. Statistically more than half of the people living in poverty represent people of color. The high poverty rate for people of color can be linked to what Leonce Gaiter‚ author of "The revolt of the black bourgeoisie‚" refers to as white liberalism or white superiority. Gaiter believes "It was hammered into
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ground specifically in the religious arena. The influence of magnates during this time is significant and their opposition to Philip II was obvious and justified due to the repression of Protestantism by Philip II and the Catholic Church. “The Dutch Revolt did not just happen at one moment; it evolved over a period of time and underwent numerous changes before eventually coalescing into a conscious desire among some provinces to achieve independence from Spanish rule” (Darby 1). Ultimately William the
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B2 September 25‚ 2011 Reformation DBQ During the Protestant Reformation in Germany around the 16th century chaos ensued. This was lead by Martin Luther‚ who brought the churches lie out in the open for all to see. He told the people of the corruption within the Vatican‚ and how they shouldn’t have to pay indulgences. Secularism spread throughout the lands‚ people began turning on the church. This all went on while the Renaissance was still affecting the European nations. The Roman
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They quote a former head of the National Security Agency J. M. McConnell about the seriousness of this issue. He states‚ “The critical infrastructure of the United States‚ including electrical power‚ finance‚ telecommunications‚ health care‚ transportation‚ water‚ defense and the Internet‚ is highly vulnerable to cyber attack. Fast and resolute mitigating action is needed to avoid national
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deaths related to firearms. Gun control laws do not prevent criminals from obtaining guns or breaking the laws. Criminals can obtain guns easily by stealing from a family member or friend. A report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM)‚ in June 2013‚ states that “most of all guns used in criminal acts enter circulation via initial legal transaction.” 1.4 million Guns were stolen
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inexcusable harsh treatments that they had to tolerate. This revolt has been considered both the best thing that Haiti had ever experienced and also the most disastrous. The Haitian slave revolution was justified because of the harsh working conditions within the plantations‚ the callous living conditions‚ and the unbelievable successes. The working conditions on the plantations within Saint Dominique provided reasoning for the slaves to revolt. During the rebellion‚ the plantations were the main workplace
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heart of the many countries around Europe. As Crowe stated‚ ‘The dream of a colonial empire had taken a deep hold on the German public opinion.’ This craving for international power led to strained relations and various clashes in the build up to WW1‚ for example‚ the First Moroccan Crisis. France (and Britain) issued a programme of reform to bring Morocco stability‚ and in response Germany evoked an antagonistic‚ political dispute contesting their influence in the hope that they would withdraw. Some
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