Granada Hills Charter High School A.P. United States History – 2010 Summer Assignment DUE: Day 1 of Fall 2010 semester Instructors: Mr. Klevs cklevs@ghchs.com Ms. Byars kbyars@ghchs.com 1. Students need to read book #1 Patriots: The Men who started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth [ISBN‐10: 0671675621] by August 17‚ 2010. Students need to read book #2 K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev‚ America’s Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson [ISBN‐10: 1586484974] by January
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“A tiny speck of plutonium-239‚ as little as three millionths of a gram‚ can cause lung cancer. One pound of plutonium-239 contains enough specks to kill nine billion people instantly” (Pringle 26). Plutonium-239 is a human-made element‚ also known as the most dangerous substance on earth. As a by-product of uranium fission‚ plutonium-239 is created by generating electricity from nuclear sources. Contrary to popular belief‚ nuclear energy is hazardous and threatening to health. The use of nuclear
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Throughout the Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles‚ the Greek concept of hubris is a prominent cause of the constant disastrous results. Most characters who show great pride and self-confidence have disastrous consequences. The character most represented by this shortcoming is none other than Oedipus. Oedipus constantly shows his weakness of excessive pride. After learning about the prophecy‚ Oedipus ran away from his foster parents [believing they are his real parents] so he wouldn’t fulfil the prophecy
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by making reference to the play as a whole‚ that the weird sisters play an important role in Macbeth. Shakespeare cleverly depicts the struggle between the supernatural and the natural world‚ entwining it with Macbeth’s ambition which results in disastrous action. Shakespeare’s weird sisters play a vital role in the play‚ when in the opening scene‚ they inform the audience that‚ "fair is foul and foul is fair” thus creating the overall tone and mood of the play. They prophesy that Macbeth will revisit
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result of this crisis‚ Wallace has hired Frances Rampar‚ a management consultant‚ to conduct a management survey into the problems facing The Wallace Group. Her task is to develop a series of priorities for Wallace’s consideration. Decision Date: No Date Sales: $70‚000‚000 Net Income: $ 1‚760‚000 II. CASE ISSUES AND SUBJECTS Corporate Governance Morale and Culture Diversification Organizational Structure Stages of Corporate Development
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British Airways British Airways is the largest international scheduled airline in the UK. The company was founded in 1919‚ and has continued to grow and expand since privatisation in 1987‚ until the global recession hit in 2008. On 23rd January 2009 the UK was officially declared to be in recession following two consecutive quarters in 2008 during which economic growth dropped (BBC‚ 2009). Many businesses‚ including British Airways‚ have found it increasingly difficult to survive in the resulting
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persistent advocates of a direct strategy - a cross-Channel attack that would first destroy German military power in the West‚ then drive deep into the heart of industrial Germany to end the war. The British‚ on the other hand‚ sobered by their disastrous experiences at Dunkirk and Dieppe‚ preferred to stage a number of small-scale attacks around the perimeter of fortress Europe. They thereby hoped to weaken German defenses before leaping precipitously across the Channel into the teeth of the still
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chain reaction continues until the government agencies effectively quell it or one of the groups is completely wiped out i.e. until a group has “won”. How can we term this outcome as a “win” when there’s no one to celebrate the “win” because this disastrous cycle results into nothing but massive bloodshed and deaths? Ethnic cleansing and communal riots are the obvious examples in which there is widespread bloodshed
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Seemingly innocent‚ in the 1900s there began the worst manmade catastrophe to ever be recorded in history‚ the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl‚ also referred to as the “Dirty Thirties‚” was a time of extremely disastrous dust storms that significantly affected the agriculture of the U.S. Promised cheap land‚ farmers engulfed the Southern Plains and began to plow the land to grow wheat‚ not taking into consideration the climate and soil or ecology of the land; and there was the biggest mistake made in the
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