Reference no: EM13738663 , Length: 2000 Words
Short Answer Questions
In four or five sentences, briefly answer the following questions. Ten marks each.
1. From the Steinberg textbook, Reflections from a Woodlot explain what were some of the main environmental factors that impeded or facilitated resettlement.
2. After reading Samuel de Champlain's Voyages, how do you think his target audience e shape his writing?
3. Based on Cook's argument, how important were ecological factors to survival in the New France colony? How do Virginia DeJohn Anderson's findings compare to Ramsay Cook's?
4. What is Carl Martin's main argument regarding the impact of Europeans on the culture of the northeastern Algonquian?
5. In what ways does Charles Bishop refute or contradict Carl Martin's thesis? How does Carl Martin respond to his critics? Do you think his ecological interpretation is sound?
6. From Steinberg's chapters 5 and 7 and Joyce Chaplin's article, explain how access to water shaped power relations in the U.S. South. What impact did water and agriculture have on the enslavement of African peoples in this part of North America?
7. Based upon Donald Worster's essay and the primary sources "An Advocate Encounters the Irrigators, 1887" and "An Advocate Encounters the Irrigators, 1887", explain how irrigation was organized in California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? Were there alternatives to the model chosen?
Long Answer Questions
Answer the following questions. 250-350 words per question. Twenty-five marks each.
1. Considering the environmental challenges of resettlement, how might an environmental history approach change the way historians think about the colonization of North America by European peoples?
2. How did the encounter with capitalism through the fur trade alter the Aboriginal relationship with fur-bearing animals?
3. How did the control over water through the use of different irrigation technologies alter social power relations in the U.S. South and West?
4. The following criteria will be used to evaluate your answers.
|
Find what opportunity for us companies might you foresee
: China and India have demonstrated trends toward Western-style consumption over the last decade. What opportunity for U.S. companies might you foresee
|
|
Evaluate security products from two competing vendors
: Use the Web to research and evaluate security products from two competing vendors, such as antivirus software, firewalls, or antispyware software. For each product, describe its capabilities, for what types of businesses it is best suited, and it..
|
|
Current place of employment or an organization
: Explain this use in your current place of employment or an organization with which you are familiar. Describe concerns with properly controlling this flow, including keeping it safe from unauthorized use.
|
|
Describe the organizational authentication technology
: Identify and describe the organizational authentication technology and network security issues and make a list of access points internal and external (remote).
|
|
What carl martins main argument regarding impact of european
: What is Carl Martin's main argument regarding the impact of Europeans on the culture of the northeastern Algonquian?
|
|
Consideration for ethics and diversity proposal
: Consideration for Ethics and Diversity Proposal Choose two ethical considerations and two diversity considerations affecting your division.
|
|
Describe the domestic factors that drive demand for edutot
: Describe the domestic factors that drive the demand for EduTot, including demographic, social, cultural, technological, economic, and legal
|
|
Excel spreadsheet that addresses the environmental factors
: As a consultant for EduTot, an educational toy company, you have worked with marketing experts in similar industries and concluded that exporting is the best marketing strategy for a company starting in the international arena
|
|
Monitor the productivity and communications of employees
: Employers often want to find out if their workers are productive and loyal. Determine at least one limit that you would place upon a private employer's rights to monitor the productivity and communications of employees at work. Support your respon..
|