Category: Social studies

What are the current challenges facing the country of Haiti? Corruption, vulnerability to natural disasters, resurgent gang violence, and disproportionate use of force by police against protesters remain major human rights concerns in Haiti. Displacement. Rights to Health, Water, and Food. Criminal Justice System. Illiteracy and Barriers to Education. Abuses by Security Forces. What is […]

When you blank you are driving on the wrong side of the road? When you Cut the corner on a left turn, you are driving on the wrong side of the road. this means that, when you are driving u need to find the cars that come in front and which may collide. What happens […]

What objects were buried with mummies in Egyptian tombs? Pharaohs were mummified with amulets and jewels inside the linen wrappings and then buried in lots of coffins inside coffins to protect the body. Tutankhamen’s body was put inside a solid gold coffin with a gold death mask that showed the boy king’s face. What things […]

Why is a genetic variation the key issue in a small population approach? Since it is the many different genetic combinations an individual gamete can produce, is the key issue in the small population approach, because the total size of a population may be misleading because only certain members will pass their alleles to their […]

What are some examples of devolution? The most famous example of devolution is in the United Kingdom, where Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland exercise authority over their own lands, but remain part of the U.K. Usually, the central government maintains power of things like national security and defense but allows devolved governments to do things […]

How did the English get New Jersey? Colonial Times The colonial history of New Jersey started after Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay in 1609. Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey’s first permanent European settlement. In 1664 the Dutch lost New Netherlands when the British took control of the land and added it to […]

What form did the Sanskrit language originate? Sanskrit evolved from Proto-Indo-European languages and was used to write the Vedas, the Hindu religious texts compiled between 1500-500 BCE. Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, the most ancient Hindu scripts, compiled c. 1500-500 BCE. Which is the best comparison of the basic beliefs of Aryans […]

What is the name of the influential lectures of the philosopher Karl Jaspers in which he addresses the problem of individual responsibility for Nazism? In 1919 Jaspers published some of his lectures, entitled Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (“Psychology of World Views”). What is a key point for the philosophy of communication for Karl Jaspers? Thus from […]

What can be defined as a moving dot in art? Line. In terms of art, line is considered a moving dot or the path of a dot. Line can be used to define edges, add shading or value, and create the illusion of form. What refers to the distribution of the actual or apparent weight […]

What does Miss Lucy mean by told and not told? by luciebowyer. In this part of the novel, Miss Lucy tells a group of students that they have been ‘told and not told’ about their future or if they had been told, no one really understood. She states that if they want to live ‘decent […]