Lesson 13.6 HOW WAS THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO FORMED? In 1912‚ Alfred Wegener proposed the past existence of a supercontinent called Pangaea (or Pangea). According to Wegener‚ Pangaea had split apart into a northern half called “Laurasia” and a southern half called “Gondwanaland”. Surrounded by a global ocean called “Panthalassa” and separated by a big body of water called “Tethys Sea”. The slow drifting of continents has been occurring over the past 250 million years. In the 1960s‚ the theory
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Families living in poverty in urban areas face extraordinary pressures (Atkins et al.‚ 2006). Strong Start‚ a program sponsored by Family Service of Greater Boston‚ is trying to decrease some of these pressures by utilizing a hands-on-model in urban preschools. Strong Start places an educational specialist and a clinician on-site at under-resourced‚ under-educated‚ urban early childhood development centers. It is an early intervention/prevention program that promotes healthy social-emotional development
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Characters Kept Me Company: How Literacy Was My Outlet Reading and writing are significant in my life because they have given me a way to express myself and hide from my everyday life‚ even though I don’t read or write as often as I once did. Literacy provided me a way to understand and communicate with others. Societally‚ literacy is important to comprehension and education. We as humans are taught from the moment we are born to speak‚ read‚ and write. It is our most basic form of communication
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On the winding road to create a strong brand. Part I Mass marketing and great availability of products have accelerated our transformation into a consumer society‚ or the one that exists simply because it buys. People express themselves through what they possesses. However‚ nowadays the product has been replaced by a brand‚ a shopkeeper replaced by advertising. Corporations have become accustomed to the fact that although they produce products‚ what consumers pay for is basically the brand. Enterprises
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stronger public speaking skills? List and explain several examples. After completing the Demonstrative Speech‚ I feel that I had several strong public speaking skills. The first I would like to discuss‚ is my introduction. My introduction included an attention getter‚ reason to listen‚ thesis‚ and transition to the first main point. The attention getter I used was a summary of blood pressure from ATI’s Nursing Education skills module on vital signs. The summary included the definition of blood pressure
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Revolution was quite revolutionary‚ due to the fact that a lot changed in America during the 18th century. Colonist wanted to protect their rights and since they were denied them by their ex-owners the revolution began. The American Revolution greatly transformed America. America singed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. This was the start of the Revolution because America stopped all the unnecessary taxes that they were liable to pay due to the French and Indian war. America was able to succeed
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The Weimar Republic was the German government between the fall of Autocracy in 1918 and the rise of Nazi Germany in 1933. This political system had both positive and negative aspects‚ therefore we could say it was successful to a certain extent. During these years the country had its ups and downs economically‚ politically and artistically. From a creative point of view‚ different art branches‚ such as architecture‚ painting‚ cinema and literature could now flourish. There was an emancipation on that
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spite of their ideals‚ there was one entity stopping them from fulfilling and continuing their beliefs ; Mexico. Although Mexico was precluding their aspirations‚ it didn’t give the United States the right to go to war. Going to war with Mexico was not justifiable for multiple reasons. First‚ and foremost‚ the primary reason war was not justified‚ nor warranted‚ is because the Americans were on Mexican land that they were originally invited to inhabit. Once Mexico was declared free from Spain
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Empire was one of the most powerful‚ longest lasting empires of all time. It was formed by a sultan named Osman in 1299 A.D. He started to expand the empire and make it one of the most feared. Janissaries protected the sultans and fought for them‚ for they were a major part of expanding the empire. The empire grew and grew eventually becoming it’s most powerful under Suleiman “The Magnificent.” After Suleiman’s rule of the Ottoman Empire in 1566‚ a rumor arose that the ottoman that he owned was possessed
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past‚ and this Quiet revolution‚ right after a new Liberal government led by Jean Lesage came in 1960. This was the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. Lesage had an excellent team of cabinet ministers which included Rene Levesque. The Liberals promised to do two things during the Quiet Revolution; one was to improve economic and social standards for the people of Quebec‚ and the other was to win greater respect and recognition for all the French people of Canada. The Liberals started a program
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