Chapter 15: Historical Research Answers to Review Questions 15.1. Define historical research. Historical research is the type of research that examines past events or combinations of events to arrive at an account of what has happened in the past. 15.2. Why would a person want to conduct historical research? Historical research is conducted to • Uncover the unknown‚ • Answer questions‚ • Identify the relationship that the past has to the present‚ • Record
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When the English were colonizing North America‚ they brought with them their laws. Being from the British Common Law system‚ the settlers understood how that system worked‚ so they modeled their own government using Common Law. In the 18th century‚ when the Union was formed and the colonies became states‚ they kept their Common Law governments. However‚ the Articles of Confederation set forth to establish one supreme court‚ being the federal court. Article III of the U.S. Constitution states: ’The
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believe. You may think that this is something that just happens at this day in age‚ but this occurs everywhere and has occurred over time. This is called historical bias. This paper will investigate ways to avoid historical bias‚ how historical bias may affect how we think about our past‚ and other examples of historical bias. First‚ avoiding historical bias may be hard but it is not impossible. There are many things one can do to make an accurate decision or even a compromise of all the stories and
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NOT MARBLE NOT THE GUILDED MONUMENTS (SONNET 55) BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THEME Shakespeare believed that love is eternal and everlasting. It cannot be destroyed or withered away‚ like man-made monuments which are all doomed to destruction with the passage of time. The sonnet opposes the power of verse to death and the ravages of time‚ promising immortality to his friend by making him the subject of his poem. Q AND A Q1. Why do you think the rich and powerful……(see text Q no. 1)
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1. What are historical explanations? Historical explanations are another term for ultimate explanations which are concerned with the entire existence of a group of organisms as opposed to just the explanations of a specific individual. 2. How are Freudian concepts historical explanations? What mistake do such explanations make to manufacture an immediate cause of behavior? Freudian concepts are historical explanations because of the use of childhood experiences as explanations for adulthood behavior
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Emigration to new colonies is encouraged because of 3 reasons? 1. Provide supervisors to watch the taking of resources 2. Relieve over population in the European nation 3. To replace native populations with European people What were some effects of first contact? Disease killing 8-10 million‚ and assimilation and permanent changes to culture Differing approaches to the Indigenous peoples North America situation- French/British needed help from native people to get furs and they traded
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The Monuments Men The Monuments Men were a group of men and women who served to recover the stolen paintings in World War II. They recovered millions of paintings that were stolen by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s in World War II. The Monuments Men were an important military group in World War II because of their origin‚ assignment‚ and number of paintings recovered. The Monuments Men were created from 14 different nations who were either museum directors‚ curators‚ art historians‚ archivists
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for their architecture. Specifically‚ in this case she compares Triumphal monuments‚ and how each triumphant general used their materials to emphasize different meanings with their monuments. She emphasizes that to understand Roman’s materiality there must be a “holistic” approach when looking at the architecture‚ not just simply trying to understand one material but combinations of materials‚ and what or who these monuments are dedicated to. She also makes it clear that in many cases there were other
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often filled with chaos and disorder. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury is a story that takes place in the future but takes its name from a 19th century writer. It is a story that takes a science-fiction plot and embroils it with real life moral and philosophical concerns. Bradbury’s protagonist is a house standing alone in a world destroyed by nuclear war in the 1950’s. When the story was written‚ the fear of devastating effects of nuclear war was painfully clear in peoples’ minds. With
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Singin’ In the Rain Review Singin’ In the Rain (1952) Genre: Comedy‚ Musical‚ Romance Cast Don Lockwood: Gene Kelly Cosmo Brown: Donald O’Connor Kathy Seldon: Debbie eynolds Lina Lamont: Jean Hagen R.F. Simpson: Millard Mitchell Zelda Zanders: Rita Moreno Roscoe Dexter: Douglas Fowley Singin’ in the Rain is one of the most-loved and celebrated film musicals of all time from MGM‚ before a mass exodus to filmed adaptations of Broadway plays emerged as a standard pattern. It was made
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