At the center of Roberts’ account is the First World War. Roberts’ argues that before the war‚ most of the slum dwellers were part of an undermass. Men and women who had unskilled work‚ if they had any work at all‚ whose lives were marked by poverty and the constant quest for money to buy food or pay the rent. He dismisses those who look back on the period as some sort of golden age‚ arguing instead that the grinding poverty held little rosiness for most of Salford’s population. Their lives were
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Studying in the Twenty-First Century In the article “What Works‚ What Doesn’t‚” John Dunlosky and other researchers report different types of learning strategies to determine their effectiveness for students and teachers in a variety of subjects and settings. Rating the best and worst strategies that work for students. Method and content are equally important in learning and students are not being taught from teachers. The problem with experts studies is that some strategies may be time consuming
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Answer 1: The 19th and first half of the 20th century conceived of the world as chaos. Chaos was the oft-quoted blind play of atoms which‚ in mechanistic and positivistic philosophy‚ appeared to represent ultimate reality‚ with life as an accidental product of physical processes‚ and mind as an epiphenomenon.… It was chaos when‚ in the current theory of evolution‚ the living world appeared a product of chance‚ the outcome of random mutations and survival in the mill of natural selection. In the
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AP World History Changes & Continuities Essay Rome from 100 CE-600 CE Just like every other empire‚ Rome experienced many changes both politically and culturally. Along with these changes in the classical era came continuities as well. As I mentioned there are many changes in this time period‚ one being the destruction of paganism and the acceptance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Roman influence in Europe began to disintegrate‚ especially after the division of the empire. The East transformed
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University of Waterloo Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering E&CE 231 Final Examination - Spring 2000 Aids: Formula Sheets (attached)‚ Scientific Calculator Time Allowed: 3 hours Exam Type: Closed Book Instructor: C. R. Selvakumar Date: August 10‚ 2000 Max Marks: 100 Instructions: Answer all questions in PART-A and any two questions in full from PART-B. State your assumptions clearly. Be concise‚ precise and clear in your answers General assumptions to be made when not
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Since it first began‚ Indian Ocean commerce has been a linking force in the surrounding region. However‚ it has not all remained the same. Between 650 CE and 1450 CE‚ Indian Ocean trade routes and dominating groups changed significantly‚ while the goods they traded remained largely the same. Trade routes used by Indian Ocean mariners were important to the region’s commerce. They needed to find faster‚ easier routes to the destination. At first‚ many merchants would have to sail to far away
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Geometric period: 900-700 BCE. The earliest form of Greek artistic decoration‚ after the decline of the Minoan and Mycenean cultures‚ is the Geometric period. It is characterized by block form and triangular shapes‚ which represent human forms. Abstract shapes fill the spaces surrounding these figures‚ as in represented in Garner’s “Art through the Ages” page 108 image 5-2‚ Geometric krater form the Dipylon cemetery‚ Athens Greece‚ ca. 740 BCE. As well‚ Bronze statues are simplistic and more
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AP World Final Study Guide Definitions up to 600 BCE: Paleolithic: The period of the stone age associated with the evolution of humans (Old Stone Age‚ and was a time of nomads and hunter gatherers) Neolithic Revolution: Agricultural Revolution in the New Stone Age Pastoralists: A way a life dependent on large herds of small and large stock (Africa and Central Asia) Hunter-Gatherers: A way of life of people who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering edible plants and insects
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CE 371 HOMEWORK 2 1) Find the difference in pressure between tanks A and B if d1=300mm‚ d2=150mm‚ d3=460mm‚ d4=200 mm and S.GHG =13.6 w=9.80 kN/m3 2) Determine the elevation difference‚ h‚ between the water levels in the two open tanks shown in the figure. w=9.80 kN/m3 3) An air-filled‚ hemispherical shell is attached to the ocean floor at a depth of 10 m as shown in the figure. A mercury barometer located inside the shell reads 765 mm Hg‚ and a mercury U-tube manometer designed to give the
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Lab Report: Chemistry DCP + CE Jovi Arya 28 August 2012 Aim The aim of this lab is to determine the order of the reaction between Propanone and aqueous Iodine with respect to Iodine. Apparatus and Reagents Apparatus I. Eye Protection (1) II. Spectrophotometer III. Cuvettes for spectrophotometer IV. Burette (4) V. Burette Stand (4) VI. Stopwatch VII. Conical flask (2) Reagents I. 0.020M I2 (aq.) II. 2.0M CH3COCH3 (aq.) III. 2.0M HCl (aq.) Raw
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