may be given for a correct method even if the answer is incorrect. Write your answer to each question in the space provided. Additional paper may be used if necessary but you must clearly show your candidate number‚ centre number and question number(s). Do not write in the bar codes. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES • • • The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. The total number of marks for this paper is 60. This document consists of 16 pages. Any blank
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Every nation that has engaged in war has returned changed and diminished in various ways. Some costs were obvious‚ such as the immediate human and financial tolls. Some took longer to play out: emotional and psychological scars on those who survived‚ and the lingering fallout for a society that had many of its best and brightest torn from its midst forever. One of the most notorious of the time was the First World War. The Great War lasted four years‚ spanning from 1914 to 1918. The war was the result
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Technology has been in development since the beginning of time. Whether it was starting a fire‚ or new ways to grow crops‚ or even new techniques of hunting‚ these new advancements or technologies brought change upon a certain society. Sometimes technology is advantageous to a certain group‚ and not for the other. Whether this advancement or technology is helpful or deadly depends on the ways that certain technologies were used throughout that certain time period. During World War I and World War
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Thomas Edison’s invention of the lightbulb was so significant that it is still effecting society to today. Thomas Edison’s lightbulb had to consist of three things‚ the first being a durable incandescent material‚ the second thing the lightbulb needed was to eliminate the oxygenation from the bulb‚ and the last thing the lightbulb needed was a filament material of high resistance. The first lightbulb was going to be made out of platinum‚ however‚ platinum was very expensive to distribute to homes
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Alpha Sharmaine V. Salonga BSA-IA November 12‚ 2010 THE EVOLUTION OF PHILIPPINE CURRENCY The evolution of the Philippine currency has become a journey through centuries that began in the pre-colonization periods and continued up to now in our modern days. During the Pre-hispanic era‚ trading of goods was conducted through barter. Later on‚ its inconvenience led to the use of mediums of exchange such as gold‚ piloncitos‚ gold barter rings. These are believed to be the earliest coins of
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The war had a major effect on America‚ one of which led to protecting its maritime rights. The British naval forces were defeated and compelled to leave American waterways‚ relieving the latter of the pressure of securing its sailors. The outcome of the war brought into the limelight the nation’s place in the world by sounding a warning to the rest of the world that America was a major power that could challenge any country in case it national interests are endangered. Consequently‚ this gave America
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In the early nineteen hundreds‚ the United States was changing in ways that would later better the future. People who were known as Progressives had a hand in the development of the United States. They made politics and corporations better established‚ making sure that business is advancing. Conservatism was influenced as well. Along with a few clubs trying to improve the education‚ waste‚ and police of the cities. Progressives were in the middle class‚ educated‚ financially secure‚ usually in their
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The Mongolian invasion of Europe impacted them in both negative and positive ways. During the initial invasion the Mongols they wiped out most of the population of some entire towns that resisted the invasion. In other regions they confiscated the crops and livestock preventing people from surviving on their own. The Mongol conquest also allowed deadly diseases to travel from its home range in china to Europe along newly restored trade routes. Some positive effects of the invasion came from the “Pax
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Before the First World War‚ Canada was a member of the British Empire and was obligated to follow the mother country. Even though Canada had no choice whether to go to war‚ Canadians across the country were eager to fight. As many men volunteered‚ the situation at home began to change. Some of the changes included industrialization and new status for women. Many positive changes were implemented‚ but so were negative ones. There was even a time when our democracy and freedom was threatened. The war
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The Titanic was completely underwater around 2:20 a.m. on April 15. Cunard’s Carpathia got the stress call at midnight and went around and found the lifeboats containing the few 705 survivors‚ about 1‚517 people died that day. The ship’s remains lay 2.5 miles on the ocean floor. Life changing events‚ like the Titanic‚ affected people personally and culturally. The Titanic also affected us personally By the time Margaret Tobin Brown
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