AP World History-Theme Analysis Chart Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment. | * Like religious faiths‚ infections and contagious diseases also spread along the trade routes of the classical world. * The most disruptive of these diseases were probably smallpox and measles‚ and epidemics of bubonic plague may also have erupted. * During the second century C.E. epidemics reduced roman population by about one-quarter‚ to forty-five million. | Theme 2: Development and
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In the book A Raisin in the Sun the author highlighted the values of a society through the characters who were alienated from the society because of their gender‚ race and class. The younger family current condition and living condition motivated ‚to get a house in a all white neighborhood knowing that her family wouldn’t like it. Living in poverty motivated him to attempt to open his own liquor store. Beneathas current condition based on society stereotype when to simply be a nurse motivated her
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Trapped By the Past I sat on the teacher’s dais‚ alone and unprotected. As floods of small schoolboys flowed into the room in unrelenting waves‚ I began to realise the full extent of my vulnerability. Standing at the highest point in the room‚ I was an obvious target. Any of the malevolent children below me could easily hit me with a heavy object or swarm on me like a crowd of ants‚ overwhelming me with sheer force of numbers and sending me tumbling to the ground. During the war‚ I had been far
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CMT3321 – Week 19 – Sample Exam Question Question (a) Describe the key features of Tangible User Interfaces‚ comparing and contrasting them with multi-touch interactive surfaces. [ 10 marks ] (b) Consider the following scenario: The Tangible Disaster Simulation System is a collaborative tool for planning disaster measures based on simulations of disasters and responses such as evacuation and the actions of emergency services. Users can define parameters of a disaster (such as its scale
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The Effects of Alienation and Loneliness in Lives of the Saints Loneliness is a state of mind that leaves people depressed and emotionally weak. The members of the Innocente family suffer from alienation through various social groups. In Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints‚ Cristina and grandfather (Cristina’s father) are alienated from the community (grandfather is isolated from the community)‚ and Vitto is alienated from his family. Alienation makes the lives of these characters lonely and depressing
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Death of a Salesman: Society’s Alienation of Willy Loman By: Joey Powell It is often stated that society is very judgmental. It can be seen in movies‚ literary works‚ or just an everyday walk of life. Arthur Miller chooses to portray society’s prejudice against the protagonist‚ Willy Loman‚ in his play‚ Death of a Salesman. Society‚ in this case‚ rejects Willy Loman because he isn’t upper class‚ and because he is getting up in age. Many occurrence s highlight society’s judging of Willy‚ including
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Practice 1 – one story you like the best & what lessons you have learned from the story The novel Step by Wicked Step by Anne Fine which I have studied‚ all the stories are special in their own way but the one that strikes a chord with me is Claudia’s Stories: The Green Pyjamas. The story is about Claudia’s slow but sure acceptance of her stepmother‚ Stella. In the beginning‚ she is depicted as young girl who struggles to accept the changes in her life. Her parents have decided to separate
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Sabrina Huwang Mr. Maiore AP English Language 9 June 2014 Alienation as the Embodiment of Self-Preservation in The Catcher in the Rye Written in 1951 during Post-World War II America by J.D. Salinger‚ The Catcher in the Rye details the deteriorating psychological state of the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ a pessimistic misanthrope who is convinced that the adult world is spurious and full of “phonies.” Throughout the bildungsroman‚ Holden’s various interactions with incommensurable individuals
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Today‚ readers learn much about older cultures through the writers of a specific period. A common method is to illustrate the life of a citizen in a community who is alienated from the rest. An individual that is alienated from society is not always looked down upon or discriminated against. In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde‚ Dorian Gray is seen as immoral by the citizens of London and by himself.The personality Wilde gave Dorian Gray is a representation of who many citizens of 19th century
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In the book Fahrenheit 451 the setting is in a suburban city in the twenty fourth century‚ in this book‚ the government is afraid that the people in the city will learn too much from these books‚ so the books of the innocent are burned‚ and unfortunately the town has a girl named Clarisse McClellan she is a young girl who causes Montag (the main character) to reconsider his field of work later in the story she is also being alienated by everyone she comes into contact with in the town. They all think
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