Category: Social studies

What did Socrates mean when he said that the unexamined life is not worth living? Socrates was considered by many to be the wisest man in ancient Greece, his spoken words are still listened to and followed today. Meaning of – An unexamined life is not worth living. Through this statement, Socrates means that an […]

How does Antigone feel about her punishment? Does Antigone fear being punished for burying her brother? No she does not, she actually welcomes it She is doing what she thinks is best. List the past events about which the chorus speaks in lines 88-125. What event does the conclusion of the exchange between haemon and […]

Who did the Chaldeans defeat? Babylon How were the Chaldeans destroyed? The city fell in 587/586 and was completely destroyed. Many thousands of Jews were forced into “Babylonian exile,” and their country was reduced to a province of the Babylonian empire. The revolt had been caused by an Egyptian invasion that pushed as far as […]

What are the advantages of eco tourism in Costa Rica? Ecotourism in Costa Rica has a number of environmental strengths including: conservation and protection of land, a general social consensus among Costa Ricans that environmental protection is a positive investment, environmental education of tourists that visit and communities living around eco sites, and ecotourism … […]

What are the two analytical frameworks used by historians? Answer: The two analytical frameworks that sport historians begin to use in the 1970s to make sense of data they collected in their research of the history of physical activity were modernization theory and human agency. What does a physical activity historian do? What Does a […]

What is the landscape like in Chile? The area generally is chilly and wet and houses a combination of channels, fjords, snow-capped mountains, and islands of all shapes and sizes within a narrow space. The southern part of the far south includes the city of Punta Arenas, which, with about 125,000 inhabitants, is the most […]

What are the three stages in the Atkinson-shiffrin model of memory? In order for a memory to go into storage (i.e., long-term memory), it has to pass through three distinct stages: Sensory Memory, Short-Term (i.e., Working) Memory, and finally Long-Term Memory. These stages were first proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin (1968). What are […]

Did Dostoevsky finish Brothers Karamazov? Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. What does the Inquisitor mean when he says there is no freedom of choice where men […]

What caused the uprising in Tunisia? The demonstrations were caused by high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, a lack of political freedoms (such as freedom of speech) and poor living conditions. What was the Arab spring trying to achieve? The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that […]

What is geographic criminal profiling? Geographic profiling is an investigative support technique for serial violent crime investigations. The process analyzes locations connected to a series of crimes to determine the most probable area in which the offender lives. What is the crime triangle theory? The Crime Triangle identifies three factors that create a criminal offense. […]