What is History? interpretation of the past gathering evidence & analyzing it‚ making interpretations way to construct arguments about past based on evidence goal of class is to teach how to think historically Herodotus ca. 484-420 BC Greek writer of “The History of the Persian Wars” used the word Historion (greek word - questioning‚ inquiry‚ investigation‚ gathering of evidence) his work is an investigation on a war etc. it’s something active - History is investigation/questioning
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From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400 The Norman conquest of England‚ in the 11th century‚ made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two
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1. A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them on systematic astronomical observation. (A) that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them (B) of the North American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them (C) of the development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians
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1. Linguistic features of Germanic languages: vowels. Germanic languages also have some peculiarities in the sphere of vowel sounds‚ which distinguish them from other Indo-European languages. Their main characteristic feature in this sphere is the treatment of the Indo-European short vowels o and a and the long vowels o and a. Indo-European short o and a appear as short a languages. E.g.:in IE Germanic Russ. Яблоко germ. Apfel Lat. Noctem goth. Nahts Russ.ночь germ. Nacht Indo-European
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Project Gutenberg Australia a treasure-trove of literature treasure found hidden with no evidence of ownership A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook Title: Good-bye‚ Mr. Chips (1934) Author: James Hilton (1900 - 1954) eBook No.: 0500111h.html Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding: HTML--Latin-1(ISO-8859-1)--8 bit Date first posted: January 2005 Date most recently updated: January 2005 This eBook was produced by: Don Lainson dlainson@sympatico
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C R E A T I N G S U C C E S S Develop Your Leadership Skills • Know the essential qualities • Learn about the role • Master the key skills John Adair Develop Your Leadership Skills C R E A T I N G S U C C E S S Develop Your Leadership Skills John Adair London and Philadelphia Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press‚ and the publishers and author cannot accept
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Richard C. Carrier‚ Ph.D. “Bayes’ Theorem for Beginners: Formal Logic and Its Relevance to Historical Method — Adjunct Materials and Tutorial” The Jesus Project Inaugural Conference “Sources of the Jesus Tradition: An Inquiry” 5-7 December 2008 (Amherst‚ NY) Table of Contents for Enclosed Document Handout Accompanying Oral Presentation of December 5...................................pp. 2-5 Adjunct Document Expanding on Oral Presentation.............................................pp. 6-26
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The Human Right of Self-Defense David B. Kopel‚1 Paul Gallant2 & Joanne D. Eisen3 I. INTRODUCTION “Any law‚ international or municipal‚ which prohibits recourse to force‚ is necessarily limited by the right of self-defense.”4 Is there a human right to defend oneself against a violent attacker? Is there an individual right to arms under international law? Conversely‚ are governments guilty of human rights violations if they do not enact strict gun control laws? The United Nations and some non-governmental
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GMAT OFFICIAL GUIDE th 10 Edition 1 CRITICAL REASONING 1. Which of the following best completes the passage below? In a survey of job applicants‚ two-fifths admitted to being at least a little dishonest. However‚ the survey may underestimate the proportion of job applicants who are dishonest‚ because____. A. some dishonest people taking the survey might have claimed on the survey to be honest B. some generally honest people taking the survey might have claimed on the survey to be dishonest
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Introduction. When people speak about style they usually consider texts of verbal art [cf. 14] and it is believed that on the whole only masters of style deserve special investigation and of course masters of style are usually those who are writing artistic texts. But as is absolutely clear any text is characterized by a certain style [4]‚ and it doesn’t matter whether it is good or bad because even if the person is writing in a neutral way [17;18] all the same it is the stylistic
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