Category: Sociology

Who led the Israelites to the Promised Land? Joshua What is the promised land called today? Israel How long was it supposed to take the Israelites to get to the promised land? 40 years Why did God take the Israelites the long way? “When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on […]

Is the redesign of a job to provide workers with more authority responsibility? Job enrichment provides an employee with more tasks to do as part of their job as well as the responsibility and authority needed to complete those additional tasks. Job enlargement is a job redesign strategy that increases only the tasks of a […]

What good things did Andrew Jackson do as president? Known as the “people’s president,” Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, founded the Democratic Party, supported individual liberty and instituted policies that resulted in the forced migration of Native Americans. He died on June 8, 1845. What did Andrew Jackson consider his greatest […]

In what way are whales and elephants different? Conversation among sperm whales takes the form of patterned sets of clicks whose frequencies can vary from 200 to 32,000 Hertz. Elephants use very low frequency sound — below the threshold of human hearing — to speak with one another. There are other human qualities. Both species […]

What are the methods for proposing and ratifying amendments? The traditional constitutional amendment process is described in Article V of the Constitution. Congress must pass a proposed amendment by a two-thirds majority vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and send it to the states for ratification by a vote of the […]

What precedents did George Washington establish? The list below represents some of the major things Washington did first as president that established a precedent for future leaders of the position. Appointing Judges. Ceremonial purposes. Chief foreign diplomat. Chooses a Cabinet. Commander in Chief of the Military. Mr. No lifetime appointment. What do you believe is […]

How many Americans were killed or listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War? The United States listed about 2,500 Americans as prisoners of war or missing in action but only 1,200 Americans were reported to have been killed in action with no body recovered. Many of these were airmen who were shot down […]

What is the point where a river empties into another body of water? The place where a river enters a lake, larger river, or the ocean is called its mouth. River mouths are places of much activity. As a river flows, it picks up sediment from the river bed, eroding banks, and debris on the […]

Is psychology empirical or rational? Psychology is an empirical science in particular because the way we test whether a theory is wrong is by comparing its predictions to actual data. What is the empirical method in psychology? any procedure for conducting an investigation that relies upon experimentation and systematic observation rather than theoretical speculation. The […]

Who developed Georgian architecture? It was designed by the 3rd Earl of Burlington, who drew inspiration from the attempts by 16th-century Italian architects, notably Andrea Palladio, to recreate the kind of villa that might have been found in ancient Rome. When did Georgian architecture start? 1714 Is Georgian architecture from Georgia? The architecture of Georgia […]