Category: Social studies

Why was Roger Williams banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Native American land. What was Roger Williams against? Williams, a Puritan, […]

Are you an American citizen if one parent is? If only one parent was a U.S. citizen, that parent must have resided in the U.S. for at least ten years before your birth. At least five of those years must have been after that parent reached the age of 16. With a parent thus qualified, […]

How do you write a letter to a minister? Begin the letter with “Dear Prime Minister”. If you are writing an email it is still appropriate to begin with “Dear Prime Minister”. If you are writing to a former prime minister begin with “Dear Sir/Madam,” or “Dear Mr./Mrs./Ms. Lastname.” Do you write a letter to […]

What is not protected by freedom of speech? Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial … What […]

What kind of energy is a ball falling? kinetic energy How much mechanical energy does the ball lose during its first bounce? If it bounces back, for example, to 95% of its initial height, then 95% of its mechanical energy has been retained, and 5% lost to non-conservative actions during the bounce. What is the […]

What are the main religions in East Asia? To provide an introduction to China and Japan’s four major religions: Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto. What religions are in the East? Eastern Religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism. What religion started in East Asia? East Asia. Ancient Chinese religious and philosophical traditions survive in the form of […]

Which school of thought did Franz Boas promote? Franz Boas was a German-born anthropologist who founded the relativistic, culture-centered school of American anthropology that dominated 20th century thought. Which was a focus of the historical particularism school of thought? Historical particularism is an approach to understanding the nature of culture and cultural changes of specific […]

What is the role of RAM in an embedded system? Many embedded systems use blocks of 512 or 4,192 Kbytes for small form factor devices. The role of volatile memory, or RAM, is reading instructions generated by the CPU. This can lead to operations being performed that cause data to be written back to memory. […]

What would happen if America lost the war of 1812? If the U.S. had lost the War of 1812 then there would be a country called Canada to their North. Because the U.S. won the war of 1812 no such country exists and the US northern border stretches all the way to the arctic sea […]

Who can be denied voting privileges? Today, citizens over the age of 18 cannot be denied the right to vote on the basis of race, religion, sex, disability, or sexual orientation. In every state except North Dakota, citizens must register to vote, and laws regarding the registration process vary by State. What is the relationship […]