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Arguments in favor of Private Prisons
Arguments in favor of Public Prisons
Hello MacArthur 8th Graders!
I'm sorry I couldn't make it to school today. Try to have a good day without me. Please smile and fist pump your classmates and be extra nice to your substitute. Here is your "work" below (or "fun" depending on how you look at it.) :)
1. Complete answering the questions for Chapter 13, found on the post right below this one. You can use the downloadable text written by a master teacher, or, you can use the text that is located on the student table. Please return this text to the table at the end of class.
2. Go to this link, read the amazingly well written current event, and answer the questions. Read both articles on immigration and answer the questions.
3. Go to this link, and watch the current event videos and ponder their meaning.
Have an excellent weekend, and I'll see you Monday.
8. How did St. Vladimir I change after he converted to Christianity?
1. What does "Western Civilization" mean?
2. What is another way of saying Western Civilization?
3. List four beliefs and practices of Western Civilization.
4. In Western Civilization, is there a belief in right and wrong? Do people believe in morality?
5. What does the rule of law mean?
6. What does limited government mean?
7. What happens when a government becomes too big?
8. Name some rights of people who live in Western civilization that are not found in other countries.
9. According to the author, is life in Western Civilization better than elsewhere?
10. On what ideas was the United States of America founded?
1. Who was Jesus Christ and where was he from?
2. What were his followers called?
3. What were Jesus' followers called to do?
4. What is the holy book of Christians and when was it written?
5. What idea in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence came from Christianity?
6. After the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the official religion, who was head of the Christian Church in the Roman Empire?
7. In the Roman Empire, what were the titles of the leader of the Empire and the leader of the Church?
8. In Christianity, do individuals have rights over the government, or is government stronger than the individual?
1. What is the U.S.A.'s governing document?
2. Who is George Washington compared to?
3. Who were citizens in the Roman Republic?
4. Name one right Roman citizens had?
5. How was power separated in the Roman Republic?
6. What does the rule of law mean? How is this concept not followed in most countries of the world?
7. What were the Twelve Tables?
8. What did Cicero write about laws?
9. What was Cicero's opinion about representative government?
10. Who was Cincinnatus?
11. What did he do and what did George Washington do that was similar?
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
Hint: An apple is a fruit that grows on a tree, the apple tree. When it falls, it doesn't fall far from the tree. In many ways, when people describe children, they notice that when children become adults, they resemble their parents. Or, in history, if one country (the "mother country") founded a colony, the colony looks very similar to the mother country.
The most powerful and important civilization for many centuries of the ancient world was the Roman civilization. However, this civilization didn't start out big and strong, but only as many families living in group. Over time, these families grew, more families joined, and this people, called the Latins, were ruled by other people, called the Etruscans. Eventually, the Latins became their own rulers. In a few hundred years, the Romans had one of the most powerful empires in the world.