Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and exercises for History for Primary education

Middle and Conative Alternations in English Transitivity

HistoryUpdated on 2.06 KB

Transitivity Alternations

The Middle Alternation

The middle alternation involves a change in a verb's transitivity. Transitive verbs with an agent subject and a patient object can have an intransitive pattern. The subject of this intransitive pattern takes on the role of the object in the transitive use, followed by an adverbial or prepositional phrase.

Example:

  • Transitive: The carpenter sawed the wood.
  • Intransitive: The wood saws easily.

Verbs allowing the middle alternation express a change of state in the object. The middle construction emphasizes the subject being affected by the action (affectedness constraint). Verbs like pat or touch, where the object isn't affected, don't allow this construction.

Example:

  • They hit the ball.
  • *The ball hits easily.
...
Continue reading "Middle and Conative Alternations in English Transitivity" »

Spain in the 17th Century: Economic and Social Decline

HistoryUpdated on 2.51 KB

The 17th Century Crisis in Spain

The 17th century was a tumultuous period for Spain, characterized by a severe demographic and economic crisis.

Economic Challenges and Financial Instability

Spain's economy suffered due to constant warfare across Europe, which drained national resources. As the influx of gold and silver from the Americas began to decline, the Crown relied heavily on these precious metals to finance military campaigns. Consequently, the monarchy turned to European bankers for loans, eventually leading to repeated state bankruptcies.

The feudal structure remained largely unproductive, with wealth concentrated in land ownership held by the privileged classes—the nobility and the clergy—who lived primarily off rents. This system...

Continue reading "Spain in the 17th Century: Economic and Social Decline" »

Addison's Royal Exchange Essay and 18th-Century Commerce

HistoryUpdated on 2.33 KB

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) from The Spectator, N 69 (Published in 1711)

The Royal Exchange

In the periodical The Spectator No. 69, Joseph Addison creates a persona that reveals a new, diverse society of merchants who established the Royal Exchange. These merchants rivaled the powers of Parliament and past Monarchies over the British domains.

The Royal Exchange, located in the heart of the City (London's financial district), was not only a hub for business but also a center for eighteenth-century essays, poetry, letters, and opinions, originally edited by Addison and Steele.

It stands as a symbol of globalisation, highlighting the “increasing importance of the international commerce to the British economy.” Addison believed the world seemed...

Continue reading "Addison's Royal Exchange Essay and 18th-Century Commerce" »

Notebook

History2.77 KB

31 nervos pares
3º mes de vida= curvatura secundaria  cervical
6º mes de vida= curvatura secundaria lombar
2 curvaturas primarias: toracica e sacral.
2 cuvaturas secundarias: cervical e lombar.
4 curvaturas
Curvaturas da coluna vertebral:
Curvaturas primarias: mantem o sentido da curvatura da coluna fetal: toracica e sacral
Curvaturas secundarias: Cervical (surge em torno do 3º mes de vida, quando a criança ja sustenta o peso da cabeça.
Lombar: surge em torno do 6º mes de vida, quando a criança ja sustenta o corpo em posição ortostatica)
CURVATURAS NOMAIS:
Cifose: acentuação das curvaturas primarias= toracica e sacral
Lordose: acentuação das curvaturas secundarias= cervical e lombar
Quando a lordose é muito acentuada, denomina-se hiperlordose
Escoliose:...

Continue reading "Notebook" »

Vaodale

History6.74 KB

Submetida a um tratamento médico, uma pessoa ingeriu um comprimido contendo 45 mg de ácido acetilsalicílico (C9H8O4). Considerando a massa molar do C9H8O4 180g/mol e o número de Avogadro 6.10²³, o número de moléculas da substancia ingerida é?
Primeiro transformando mg para g

1g..................1000mg
x....................45mg

x = 0,045g

1 mol.........................180g

x................................0,045

x = 0,00025mol


1 mol...............6,0 . 10²³

0,00025............x

x = 1,50 . 10^20

A balança mais precisa pode detectar uma variação de aproximadamente 10( elevado -8g). Quantos átomos de ouro existiriam em uma amostra desse peso?
Primeiramente consulte uma tabela periódica para obter a massa atômica do ouro( ma = 197u)
assim, a

...
Continue reading "Vaodale" »

Legal positivism" "meaning and scope of legal rules

History3.2 KB

  1. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY The most democratic organ, in which each state (193) gets one vote, no matter how big or small, rich or poor. The General Assembly has the competence to discuss and make recommendations on all matters that fall within the scope of the UN Charter.

  1. THE SECURITY COUNCIL The most powerful organ. Its primary responsibility is to maintain peace and security.

It is composed of 15 members, 5 permanent with veto power (United States, China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom) and 10 elected by the GA for 2 years.

The Security Council is the only organ that can impose sanctions on states or deploy military forces on behalf of the international community to keep the peace in certain areas, regions, or countries.

  1. THE SECRETARIAT

...

Continue reading "Legal positivism" "meaning and scope of legal rules" »

20th Century American History Quiz

History3.49 KB

Question 1

What did the U.S. do during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?

Kennedy ordered a naval and air blockade around Cuba, a quarantine against all offensive weapons.

Question 2

In the 1960s, the radical group known as “Weathermen” was involved in:

College bombings that claimed several lives.

Question 3

When was the Equal Pay Act passed by Congress?

June 10, 1963.

Question 4

What happened during the Yom Kippur War of 1973?

Syria and Egypt held a surprise attack on Israeli-held lands.

Question 5

How did the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton end?

It ended with no charge attracting a majority of votes in the Senate.

Question 6

In 1992, Ross Perot made the best third-party showing in American politics since:

Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

Question 7

In...

Continue reading "20th Century American History Quiz" »

Unitarian vs. Federalist Conflicts in Early Argentina (1820s)

History2.51 KB

Caudillos

Caudillo: A term for powerful landowners who led rural militias.

Unitarian Project

Unitarians held a centralist political conception, espousing the need for a strong central government. Economically, they aimed to maintain free trade and the hegemony of the Port of Buenos Aires, ensuring it remained the sole port and that customs revenue stayed within the province.

Federal Project

Organization based on the voluntary association of provinces. Provinces sought to retain the ability to elect their own authorities and establish their own constitutions and laws.

Federalists of the Interior

Advocated for customs protection policies to support local producers.

Coastal Federalists

Demanded the free navigation of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, seeking...

Continue reading "Unitarian vs. Federalist Conflicts in Early Argentina (1820s)" »

Concept of education

History4.99 KB


  • Nation-state was not how political Communities were organized – nationalism is only 200 years old.

(ancient Greece city-states, ancient Indian republics and kingdoms, European monarchs/dynasties in feudal Kingdoms)

  • Little agreement among writers on the Exact meaning of ‘nationalism’.

  • Nationalism: The belief that a Group of people are united by a common history, tradition, language And culture, and hence they should establish a sovereign political Community of their own – nation.

  • Ideology/movement that seeks to Establish a nation-state.

  • Belief that the nation is the primary Focus of loyalty, the sole object of people’s allegiance.

  • Sense of loyalty that makes people to Live and work within the modern state, even die for the state in

...
Continue reading "Concept of education" »

Early American History: Key Events and Figures

History3.98 KB

Key Events in Early American History (1784-1865)

Late 18th Century

  • State of Franklin (John Sevier) - 1784-1790
  • Shay's Rebellion - 1786-1787
  • Federalists (Favor ratifying Constitution, strong central government)
  • North Carolina Ratification Conventions (1 & 2) - 1788/1789
  • Federalist/Democratic (Alexander Hamilton) - 1788 (Federalist Papers)
  • Republicans (Thomas Jefferson) - 1790 (American political party)

Early 19th Century

  • Dismal Swamp Canal - 1805 (Important route of commerce)
  • Whiskey Rebellion - 1791 (Tax protest in US)
  • Treaty of Greenville (Fallen Timbers) - 1814 (Treaty of Paris/Friendship US/Natives)
  • Jay Treaty - 1794-1795 (Settle issues between US and Great Britain)
  • Revolution of 1800 (Adams vs. Jefferson)
  • Embargo Act - 1807
  • War of 1812 (US and Great
...
Continue reading "Early American History: Key Events and Figures" »