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    Intimate Frontiers

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    In Hurtado’s Intimate Frontiers‚ the author argues that‚ by the late 1800s‚ an Anglo-American presence in California had dominated the region‚ and Anglos in that territory had risen to the top of the social hierarchy. There were many draws to California for the migrating Anglos‚ and numerous reasons for braving the often dangerous journey‚ just as the means of establishing an “Anglo hegemony” were numerous as well. Hurtado analyzes the period through the lens of gender-relations and sex‚ and through

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    AMH 2042 Chapter 24 Study Guide Foreign Policy Under Wilson “It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs” -Woodrow Wilson Part One: Chapter Questions 1. What were the circumstances of the sinking of the Luisitania? How did the US react? 2. What was the nature of American foreign policy from 1901 to 1920? What changes came about? |President/Policy |Major Events

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    The Western Frontier The romanticism of the west employed the frontier as the outer edge of the wave meeting “between savagery and civilization.” To historians‚ a frontier is “is not a lining of marking the start of an empty place but a zone of interaction where two or more societies vie for the use of land.’ In the “frontier thesis”‚ Frederick Turner describes the frontier as “gradually peopled.” However‚ the congress in 1862 funded the transcontinental railroad‚ the union pacific‚ and

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    final determination regarding my five main books. Part I – The Original Thesis Turner‚ Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ 1920. This book includes Turner’s landmark

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    Aboriginal Frontier Wars

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    Frontier wars would of been seen or felt the impact by every Aboriginal that came into contact with Europeans. The definition of a frontier war is fighting that happens on the border of the furthest extent of inhabited areas. A good example of this would be the Bathurst Wars which eventually become the largest military campaign to take place in our own country. The impact of the frontier war can still be felt today such as the destruction of sacred sites such as burials. The nature of frontier

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    The Female’s Side of The “Frontier Thesis” England‚ a small and familiar place for many‚ was a community with very strict rules and beliefs. The Church of England was the dominant power over the country‚ and not everyone was happy with this dictatorship. Once the land in America was founded‚ Puritans and other men searching for freedom gathered and sailed across the sea to the new land. America became a “melting pot” full of various traditions‚ cultures‚ and beliefs from England as well as new

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    Frontier Thesis Questions

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    1. What is the frontier thesis? What role does Turner argue the frontier has played in American history? The frontier thesis is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that expresses how the idea of the frontier‚ as the meeting point between savagery and civilization‚ influenced the American culture by promoting individualistic democracy. He explains that expansion to the American West changed people’s views on their own culture. 2. Trace the process which turner

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    Economics Extended Response Outline how the production possibility frontier can be used to demonstrate opportunity cost and examine how the effects of unemployment and technical change on production in the economy. A production possibility frontier is a basic model that can examine the efficiency of an economy’s resource use‚ irrespective of the wants of that economy. A production possibility frontier is the simplest tool usable to demonstrate opportunity cost‚ at all possible combinations of

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    When America comes to mind‚ you usually think of freedom or opportunity. That was exactly what the frontier provided. The frontier came to symbolize America for numerous of reasons. The frontier gave everyone opportunity’s including black‚ female‚ or even deprived white. With the westward expansion‚ you were allowed to build your own empire no matter your primary status. Especially with the Homestead Act now in place‚ it made the West very promising. The Homestead Act was an act that assured 160

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    The definition of the efficient frontier says that “the efficient frontier represents the set of portfolios that has the maximum rate of return for every given level of risk‚ or the minimum risk for every level of return.” I plotted standard deviation on x axes and Returns on y axes to interpret efficient frontier. Exhibits also include these and the graphs you asked for as graph2: In our study‚ we concentrated on the optimal portfolios‚ the one which has the lowest volatility or risk‚ for given

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