of water is a big threat Singapore’s 4-tap strategy by 2060 2) Southeast Asia as a “region” India and China as bookends‚ what lay in between is SEA A mixture of civilizations (Sino-Indic) Distinctive as a “region”: It transformed from just being Sino-Indic mixes to their own culture – adaptive‚ not just a passive recipient It is diverse in terms of food‚ agriculture‚ lifestyle yet distinctively different from their “parent” countries of China/India Zone of movement/trade region Decolonization
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Period: 6th Date: 1/ 29/ 13 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY ESSAY PACKET UNDERSTANDING WORDS This essay asks students to access how larger global issues and themes such as gender‚ trade‚ technology‚ and environment have changed and remained the same. If any one essay will give students difficulties‚ it is likely that this essay will. Students will not only have to identify areas of change‚ but also areas of continuity across chronological periods‚ and will have to
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HISTORY OF PRE-MARITAL SEX So who invented premarital sex? Well‚ history doesn’t really state who or when it was invented‚ but it can be said that premarital sex happened from the time human knew how to reproduce. Here are a few reasons why: In many of the ancient cultures‚ people have long practice sexual activities in their daily life and even though not married yet. For example‚ the ancient Egyptians had been practicing their sensual expression for centuries. Next‚ marriage
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During the Colonial period there was a lot of different outlooks on how the women were treated‚ how the men thought‚ how the children were raised. Colonization is dominating land‚ and its components. What I learned about the colonial period is that how they did things back then‚ is not how we do them now‚ they were more strict‚ powerful‚ demeaning. The first thing I realized about the colonial period had a difficult time seeing women‚ and men as equal. In one of the speeches we read in “The letter
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fascinated me for a long time‚ but it’s now ripe for a new synthesis because of recent advances in many fields seemingly remote from history‚ including molecular biology‚ plant and animal genetics‚ biogeography‚ archaeology‚ and linguistics. Eurasians have spread around the globe to dominate the modern world in wealth and power Africans survived & have thrown off European domination but remained behind in wealth and power Contrarily‚ inhabitants of Australia‚ the Americas‚ and southern Africa aren’t
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under the command of General Benjamin F. Butler‚ a portly lawyer politician‚ departed New York City at 11:00 am headed by rail to Philadelphia arriving around 4 pm. The Seventh New York Regiment of Volunteers departed New York City at 5:30 pm. By the time both of these regiments arrived in Philadelphia‚ news had spread of the riots in Baltimore. Samuel M. Felton‚ President of the Philadelphia‚ Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad and J. Edgar Thomson‚ President of the Pennsylvania Railroad met with General
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Christopher Columbus was the first European ever to set foot on North America. That belief changed when in 1963 a group of archaeologists found 1‚000 year old Viking artifacts on the tip of Newfoundland‚ where it is known as L’Anse aux Meadows. Over 2‚000 Viking objects were found and they uncovered a Viking-like settlement. Leif Erikson is believed to be the first European to discover North America‚ almost 500 years before Columbus did‚ and is much known for his exploring skills. Around 950 AD‚
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There is a popular misconception that‚ between the time of Columbus and the late 1800s‚ when the mass immigration began‚ there were no Italians in America. In point of fact‚ Italians were coming to these shores hundreds of years before the immigration depot at Ellis Island was built. The very name America is attributed to Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci‚ whose voyages to Brazil and the West Indies established the existence of a second super continent‚ the New World. As early as 1507‚ European
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The Ordovician Period‚ which is best known for its diverse marine invertebrates‚ began 488.3 million years ago and ended 443.7 million years ago. As mentioned‚ this period is famous for its variety of marine life but also for the major Cambrian-Ordovician extinction event and Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction which began and ended the Ordovician Period. These extinction occurred nearly 488 million years ago and 443 million years ago and eliminated many brachiopods‚ conodonts‚ and intensely lowered
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In North America‚ we are dependant on the idea of the American Dream; good jobs to pay for all our wants and needs. But when our ability to pay for our desires is threatened‚ some may turn to suicide as an escape from issues we cannot face. In recent years‚ suicide in North America has been on the rise‚ with all walks of life affected. From newly unemployed men and women killing themselves after the economic crash of 2008‚ to young girls killing themselves as a result of being publicly shamed on
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