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    Pompeii and Herculaneum Students learn about: Non-examinable background • stages of occupation • brief historical overview up to and including the eruption of AD 79 • early discoveries and brief history of the excavations • representations of Pompeii and Herculaneum over time Examinable content: 1 Geographical context • the physical environment: the geographical setting‚ natural features and resources of Pompeii and Herculaneum • plans and streetscapes of Pompeii and Herculaneum

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    newer conventions‚ built from the changes presented to Baroque music by its creators. This evolution can best be understood by careful investigation of musical conventions through these three periods. For perspective‚ we begin before 1650‚ with Monteverdi. His opera Orfeo of 1607 did not redefine any new style in vocal music‚ but rather served to collect existing techniques and forms of the time combining such forms as recititative‚ airs‚ madrigals‚ ritornello‚ and recitativo arioso. It also was

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    Foundation by Isaac Asimov

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    Foundation (novel) Foundation is the first novel in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series). Foundation is a collection of five short stories‚ which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951 which‚ together‚ form a single plot. Foundation saw multiple publications—it also appeared in 1955 as part of Ace Double D-110 under the title "The 1‚000-Year Plan". Four of the stories were originally published inAstounding Magazine (with different

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    Motivation in Macbeth

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    Shakespeare not only presents the actions of characters‚ but also helps us to understand what motivates characters to act the way they do. The tragedy‚ Macbeth‚ is a play where there are many dreadful events‚ and strong motivations behind them. Macduff and Macbeth are two characters of Macbeth who encounter great‚ but not always good‚ motivation for their actions. Macbeth is a heroic character at the beginning of this play "unseaming men from the nave to the chops." He has much potential as a

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    Topic: Macbeth’s coronation dinner and his reaction to seeing Banquo’s ghost. The weird sisters appear and speak to Macduff after King Duncan is killed. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth prepare for Banquo’s funeral and tell the story of their interaction.  Generating Ideas: Lady Macbeth and the death of Banquo. How everyone reacts to his death. The way everyone sees him. The weird sisters talking to Macduff after everything happened. Who? List and describe the characters involved in the narrative you

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    What role did Steve Biko and Black Conciousness play in bringing about a change in South Africa in the 1970’s? For nearly 10 years in South Africa ‚ after the banning of political organisations and the Rivonia Trial in the early 60’s ‚there was political calm and no visible organised political activity among Africans. In the same decade South Africa’s economy prospered and for whites life was good. For blacks however their misery continued. All in all the black man became a shell‚ a shadow of

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    Hamlet Essay

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    Unseen Tragedy and the Common Character Shakespeare is known for his deep understanding of human nature in the sense of diverse feelings‚ emotions‚ and passions in both positive and negative ways. I believe that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play based fully around the tragedy of not only the key character Hamlet‚ but also other characters with a lower status such as: Ophelia; Hamlet’s love interest‚ Gertrude; Hamlet’s grief driven mother‚ and Laertes; Ophelia’s exceedingly noble brother. In Arthur

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    Account for the significance of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Discuss with reference to the period. The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was a very significant point during the French Wars of Religion. It had great impacts on the Huguenot movement and on Catholicism‚ destabilising both in a sense. It also had an impact on the government at the time‚ creating a divide between north and south as well as creating rivalry in the higher ups of society. The Massacres of 1572 had‚ to some extent a devastating

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    Timeline of the Fifties

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    VI‚ Princess Elizabeth was coronated at the Age of 25 after her father died. She became the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states which is the Commonwealth realms. She was coronated a year later in 1953 and it became the first televised coronation in history. 1953: * Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed (June 19) * They were the first U.S citizen convicted of communist conspiracy and espionage. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the

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    6 KINGDOMS SCIENCE

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    Plants‚ also called green plants‚ are multicellular eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. They form a clade that includes the flowering plants‚ conifers and other gymnosperms‚ ferns‚ clubmosses‚ hornworts‚ liverworts‚ mosses and the green algae. In biology‚ kingdom (Latin: regnum‚ pl. regna) is the second highest taxonomic rank below domain. Kingdoms are divided into smaller groups called phyla. Traditionally‚ textbooks from the United States used a system of six kingdoms. A  fungus (/ˈfʌŋɡəs/; plural:

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