Summer Assignment AP European History Total Points: 120 points Step One: 1. Pick up a copy of the AP Euro textbook from the library next week (5/31 to 6/9). 2. Check out the class website: http://teacherweb.com/CA/HarborHighSchool/Mayer/apt1.aspx 3. If you have questions or if you cannot complete any of the following assignments-email Ms. Mayer at jmayer@sccs.net. 4. Not completing the following assignments by the first day of school may result in being dropped from this course. Step
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The climate of the British Isles is said to be both temperate and maritime‚ discuss. The British Isles located at 54◦N has historically had very unstable and hard to predict weather patterns due its location where five significantly different air masses converge and with influences from the Sub-polar Jet stream and North Atlantic Drift. Along with the additional complication of global warming potentially causing more extreme weather‚ meteorologists have been unable to agree on whether the UK has
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larger states thought states should have proportional representation. The framers put forth various plans to solve this difficulty. The two plans proposed were the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. Each of these had advantages and disadvantages for each of the sides. Overall‚ the Virginia Plan favored the larger states‚ while the New Jersey Plan favored the small states. Eventually both sides decided on the Great Compromise. The Great Compromise solved the problem of representation because all
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Gonzalez English 1302-63003 March 10‚ 2013 Bibliography 20 Books Just‚ Peter. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University‚ 2000. Print. “In the early part of the twentieth century anthropology was typically concerned small scale‚ technologically simple societies.” (Just‚3) Marrett‚ Robert. Anthropology. New York: BiblioBazaar‚ 2007. Print. “Anthropology is the Child of Darwin.” (Marrett‚ 1) Smith‚ Cameron. Anthropology for Dummies. Indianapolis:
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The New England Colonies http://www.ushistory.org/us/3.asp I chose “Settling New England” as my topic. The website I had chosen has many intriguing facts. While reading it‚ it just made me want to read more and more. It also had very descriptive pictures that one could visualize what it was like back in the day will reading. This site is related to chapter 2 out of the book that we read because it talks about the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony‚ Thanksgiving‚ Puritan life‚ and how New England expanded
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Robert Beverley is the author of The History and Present State of Virginia (1705). He was an educated English and became the member of the House of Burgesses in 1699. He considered himself as a Virginian‚ and he used his family background to benefit himself in social status and wealth making. He wrote this book‚ a document of the history of early life in the Virginia colony‚ purposely wanted to earn more support to raise his reputation on his political status (). In this book‚ the author first wrote
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From their very genesis‚ the New England and Chesapeake Colonies displayed stark differences and contrasts. The former was founded mostly for religious reasons and the latter for purely economic ones. Though both regions were in relatively close proximity‚ comparably‚ they greatly differed religiously‚ politically‚ socially‚ and morally (in so far as their perception/exploitation of Native Americans was concerned). The exploration of these different colonies will prove to be particularly fruitful
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plain‚ one of the finest on the Moon‚ known as the Mare Crisium-the Sea of Crises. Three hundred miles in diameter‚ and almost completely surrounded by a ring of magnificent mountains‚ it had never been explored until we entered it in the late summer of 1996. Our expedition was a large one. We had two heavy freighters which had flown our supplies and equipment from the main lunar base in the Mare Serenitatis‚ five hundred miles away. There were also three small rockets which were intended for
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because of the wonderful opportunities the New World promised to the European countries. While sharing a continent‚ the Spanish and New England colonies had major similarities and a plethora amount of differences. The Spanish and New England colonies shared significant similarities with the treatment of the natives‚ yet these colonies had extreme differences with the role of religion and the control of European government. The Spanish and New England colonies shared significant similarities
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Jamestown‚ Virginia Jamestown‚ the capital of the Virginia colony. ... The Far East has its Mecca‚ Palestine its Jerusalem‚ France its Lourdes‚ and Italy its Loretto‚ but America’s only shrines are her altars of patriotism - the first and most potent being Jamestown; the sire of Virginia‚ and Virginia the mother of this great Republic. (http://www.apva.org/history/) a 1907 Virginia guidebook. In June of 1606‚ King James I granted a charter to a group of London entrepreneurs‚ the Virginia Company
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