Summer Reading Assignment Name: ____ __________________ 10th Grade The House on Mango Street Before returning to school next school year‚ you will need to read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and complete this assignment. This organizer is intended to guide your reading and focus your thoughts in preparation for the discussions‚ summer reading quiz and writing assignments you will engage in when you return in September. By carefully completing this assignment over
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Was Western imperialism an inevitable result of the advance of the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not? Yes‚ it was an inevitable result because even though imperialism was sort of being used‚ there was now a reason to go after it. With the Industrial Revolution now making it easier to produce goods‚ countries were able to grow at a faster rate. With all the products being made‚ more countries wanted the profit that it would bring. With the quality of goods being produced‚ changes had to be made
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Question: | Answer: | Current-Day Region | Letter on Map | I founded the Choson dynasty and focused my government on Confucian principles. | Yi Song-gye | Korea | C | King Sejong replaced the complex Chinese system of writing with this alphabet. (both written and spoken) | Hangul | Korea | C | Was a dynasty and during this age‚ Buddhism reached its greatest influence in Korea. | Koryo Age | Korea | C | What religion reached its greatest influence during the Koryo Age? Buddist texts were
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GCSE History – Medicine Through Time Revision Notes TOPIC 1 – PREHISTORY Prehistory is the time before written records! Background Information Prehistoric man lived in nomadic lives They were hunter-gathers‚ they didn’t grow crops They left no written records‚ historians rely on archaeological evidence which may be hard to interpret One way round the problem of evidence for prehistoric medicine is to study people who‚ until very recently‚ lived in a similar way to prehistoric man. For
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Notes on the history of the atom In 1897 the British physicist Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson (1856–1940) discovered the electron in a series of experiments designed to study the nature of electric discharge in a high-vacuum cathode-ray tube‚ an area being investigated by numerous scientists at the time. Thomson interpreted the deflection of the rays by electrically charged plates and magnets as evidence of &quotbodies much smaller than atoms&quot that he calculated as having a very large value
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Sophie’s World Notes Introduction Questions posed: Who are you? Is there life after death? Where does the world&universe come from? Why are we here? How ought we to live? Is the human brain like an advanced computer? Ideas: “It’s tragic that people have to get ill to appreciate life”‚ the possibility of something coming from nothing‚ we study philosophy because reading what others think can help us formulate our own ideas. We are aware that we are part of something mysterious. Philosophy
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one book as being worthy of special note on account of their beauty and relevance for molding the lives of future generations of Buddhists. It is also surprising that according to Britannica Encyclopedia‚ Dhammapada is accepted both in Theravada Buddhism and in Mahayana Buddhism although there is a difference in the number of verses in the two versions. However‚ according to Encarta Encyclopedia‚ the most translated version is that of Theravada. The history of Dhammapada is also not so different
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History study notes CHAPTER ONE- FEDERATION Definitions Constitution- set of rules outlining the structure and powers of an organisation or government. Federation- a political unit formed from smaller units on a federal basis. Australia’s six colonies united under a central government on January 1st 1901. Free trade- a belief that trade should be free from tariffs and protection Tariffs- A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods. Economic advantages-by
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History Of Spice Egyptians used a lot of spices for cooking and stuffed mummies Burned cinnamon to hide stench First recorded spice Traded spice with India Spice trade silk road All roads go to fertile crescent Arabs created a monopoly on the spice trade moving toward Europe Arabs Kept Europeans in the dark about the source of spices brought from India Created secrets and Myths Might boil seeds so Europeans couldn’t grow it Crusaders brought back new spices when they returned from battle
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and religious fragmentation Feudal society -> states Feudalism= a defficult concept Feodum -> fief Lords have sovereignty over an area Kings still fight to achieve control over land and countries Social upheaval The Early Modern World (500-1300) 1) Crisis of the Western Church also known as the Great Schism 2) Hundred Years’ War 3) Great Plague or Black Death Orders if medieval society: Those who Prayed Those who fought Those who worked 1305: Clement V elected pope (friends
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