Multiple Choice: 1. Which of the following was NOT a progressive-era Muckraker who published and expose? Upton Saniclair- wrote the Jungle‚ about the meatpacking industry Ida Tarbel: wrote about the Standard oil trusts Lincoln Stefens: wrote about Machine Gov’t and Boss Rule 2. Theodore Roosevelt became known as a “trustbuster” because he directed the Justice Department to prosecute: The Northern Securities Co.- under the Sherman Anti-trust Act 3. Woodrow Wilson was only the second
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Bernie Sanders’ article “Make College Free for All” published in the Washington Post illustrates the desideratum for free college and higher education for all American students. Sanders accurately acknowledges the necessity of free education in order for the nation to prosper and the excessively high costs that college requires that make it difficult to achieve; however‚ Sanders explicitly discounts the unexplained logic about the finance that will make the probability of a free education possible
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I. The AP English course was well organized and featured a broad range of literary works. At the beginning of the year‚ we read and analyzed an assortment of American short stories‚ ranging from the straightforward and touching “The Gift of the Magi” to the structurally convoluted “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” These bite-sized stories exposed us to a variety of storytelling devices and narrative styles‚ and they whetted our appetite for the longer novels to follow. Next‚ we read The Scarlet
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1. Who is the narrator? Where does the story take place? What time period? – How did you guess? The speaker of this piece is Scott Russell Sanders. The setting of the story is in Memphis‚ throughout his youth. The time period is in the course of slavery in the end of 1940s and 1950s. I came to this conclusion from the text when he stated “The first men‚ besides my father‚ I remembered seeing were black convicts and white guards‚ in the cotton field across the road from our farm on the outskirts
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force gave way for ethical reflection. Quite obviously‚ in hindsight‚ Eugene “Bull” Connor’s crusade on Birmingham’s weakest population seemed‚ to the national public‚ an atrocity conveying the true instability of desegregation. To characterize his response as anything but listlessly immoral would give credence to an unthinking way of living in which one’s own values have no basis in reality and therefore no respectable place in modern society. One could say Eugene “Bull” Connor was simply following
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Extended Response Writing in HSC Geography There are two parts to approaching an extended response: 1. Reading the question 2. Writing the response 1. Reading the Question By effectively reading the question you find out what FACTS and TOPICS are required how the examiners want you to answer it. 3 How do I effectively read the question? 4 Determine what syllabus dot point it is from? All questions are based on a syllabus dot point. Once you can recognise
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IMPORTANT WORDS FOUND IN ESSAY QUESTIONS Analyze: Divide a complex whole into its component parts and examine these parts to determine how the parts contribute to the whole. Identify the components‚ examine them‚ determine relationships among them‚ eliminate irrelevant information‚ and explain how the parts contribute to the whole. Details in the essay should work toward proving your thesis and should relate back to your thesis. DO NOT NARRATE or laundry list information. Narration
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1. A class that I believe was most particularly significant to me is AP Chemistry. Prior to enrolling in the class‚ I was mostly breezing through school without having to put in a considerable amount of time for homework and studying purposes. A few weeks into the course however‚ I had realized that this class was not going to be even close to the ones I have taken before in terms of the rigor and depth of understanding required to succeed. Now that I have finished the course‚ albeit with a B first
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first AP class. I was really nervous about going to the meeting to sign myself up to get the summer assignment because I felt that I was not ready for the work load‚ and I would not be able to pass the class. My excuse for not going to the meeting was that I was helping in the cafeteria and I was really late‚ but when I told my two best friends Jenny and Virginia that I wasn’t going to take it anymore. They got so frustrated and annoyed with me because they said I was stupid if I didn’t take AP calculus
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Summary & Response: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Living in a world where it is foreign to be colored was hard for many people of this nature in the 1920s. For Zora Neale Hurston‚ this was not a challenge at all. This high-spirited girl gives an explanation of how it felt to be‚ “...like a brown paper bag of miscellany propped against a wall” (Hurston 197). Written by Hurston herself‚ “How It Feels To Be Colored” gives us a humorous‚ sarcastic-ridden view of what her childhood was like from her
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