CAUSES OF SOCIAL CHANGE Social change has many causes. Also in a world linked by sophisticated communication and transportation technology‚ change in one place often begets change elsewhere. Some of the causes of social change are being discussed here. Culture and Change There are three important sources of cultural change: invention‚ discovery‚ and diffusion. Invention is the combination of existing elements of culture into something new. Inventions produce new objects‚ ideas‚ and social patterns
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Outline: Question: Identify the most important lesson to be learned about human nature in Lord of the Flies. Demonstrate how the novel makes these lessons clear to us Thesis: In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ he teaches us that humans are all evil and destructive inside. This is because of how easily the society on the island collapsed‚ the fight between good and evil and lastly‚ the immense amount of symbolism thats in the book‚ further conveying his theme of how all people have evil
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“Thanatopsis” (Pg. 171) first written when Bryant was almost 17 Meaning: Thanatos (death) Opsis (seeing) - The title presents the poem as a way of looking at death. He added to the poem in 1821. His additions frame the poem and add an element of human comfort. “Thanatopsis” – Stanza 1 Questions 1. Bryant inverts the opening clause of the poem. Rephrase it without inversion. 2. What literary device is used in lines 4-8? 3. Who is the speaker? 4. What is the tone? 5. What images of death
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TAKE-HOME MIDTERM ESSAY The decision to drop the A-bomb was chosen for several reasons‚ first and foremost to end the war against Japan. This strategy was decided upon because Japan’s war-fighting industries were highly concentrated in metropolitan areas‚ but weren’t zoned away from residential areas‚ and those cities had a high proportion of flammable materials. Operation Downfall was the original plan which caused for a massive invasion of Japan by mostly US forces. The casualty estimates
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RENASSIANCE 1400 Italy Rebirth Stressed secular subjects in lit and art Italy = center bc connected to roman tradition‚ led in banking and trade Focused on stylistic grace‚ practical ethics and codes of behavior Francesco Petrarch Art- nature and people‚ perspective Classism architecture from Greece and rome Commerce and shipping Iberian penninsula Chapter 7 Outline The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Era i. Abbasid Empire disintegrated between the ninth and
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biotechnology------------------------------------------------- Before the Common Era[edit] * 7000 BCE – Chinese discover fermentation through beer making. * 6000 BCE – Yogurt and cheese made with lactic acid-producing bacteria by various cultures. * 4000 BCE – Egyptians bake leavened bread using yeast. [1] * 500 BCE – Moldy soybean curds used as an antibiotic. * 250 BCE – The Greeks practice crop rotation for maximum soil fertility. [2] * 100 BCE – Chinese use chrysanthemum as
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permeate in ethical discussion today. He discusses the idea of a „just price“. The price that doesn´t ask for much more than the cost of production and what is needed to sustain the worker. It´s not about the profit but about the maximazing the value Mercantilism is a school of thought that focuses on a nations control of trade to promote a positive trade balance Basically‚ we should always make sure to sel stuff to other nations to keep the nation prosperous. The main idea was to cumulate a lot of money
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History V07A. Week 1: 6/18/2013 1. American civil war is first modern war‚ where technology dominated(#15 from list of reasons to study US hist.) 2. Reasons the Europeans expanded into the known and unknown worlds 15th and 16th centuries 3.1. Collapse of environment in middle ages and lack of natural resources stopped progression and expansion. 3.2. Econ. Depression 1350-1450AD caused by defeat in crusades (1096-1298AD) and internal conflict pushes states into econ tailspin
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The History of Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was known as a president‚ general‚ and a politician. However people have not heard of some of the things he had to go through with his past life. His family was from Ireland and then moved to America on a farm in south Carolina where Andrew was born. Andrew got his name from his father when he died [go.galegroup.com.] As he started to grow up the revolutionary war broke out. So Andrew his two brothers Hugh and Robert joined the battle. Sadly they both
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HIS236 Lecture Notes The 17th Century The century of revolution And the Glorious Revolution (bloodless‚ political revolution‚ the crowning achievement of the British constitution) Constitutionalism – the law reigns‚ not the monarch. Law limits the government’s power. The will of the people. Laws are created in the parliamentary fashion Charles I was trialed before the parliament and was decapitated because he was overtaxing the public. Absolutism - reigned by the monarch (divine ruler
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