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0a. Thematic Essay Resources
RegentsPrep Global History Exam Overview: Thematic Essay Provides step-by-step instructions designed to aid students in writing a successful thematic essay. Belief Systems Thematic Essay (Thomas C. Caswell) Asks students to provide the location, explain the major teachings, and discuss cultural influences of two different major world belief systems. Change & Turning Points Thematic Essay (August 2001 NYS Global History Regents Exam) Asks students to describe the causes and effects for two turning points in global history, and explain how each turning point changed the course of history for nations and peoples. Change & Turning Points Thematic Essay (Jeffery Watkins) Asks students to: define the term "revolution," describe three of the factors that helped bring about a particular revolution, and identify and discuss one immediate effect and one long-term effect of this revolution on the lives of the people involved. Culture & Intellectual Life Thematic Essay (Carol Blackburn) Asks students to identify two different cultures that experienced a Golden Age. They are also asked to describe the specific achievements of each culture identified and explain how these achievements continue to influence the modern world. Economic Change Thematic Essay (January 2001 NYS Global History Regents Exam) Asks students to define the term "industrialization." Students must then select one nation and discuss two specific examples of the ways in which industrialization changed the lives of workers in that nation an discuss the response of the workers, reformers, and/or government to these changes. Geography Thematic Essay (June 2001 NYS Global History Regents Exam) Asks students to select one geographic feature and explain how this geographic feature has had an effect on the historical development of two nations or regions. Justice & Human Rights Thematic Essay (June 2000 NYS Global History Regents Exam) Asks students to define the term "human rights." Next, students musy identify two examples of human rights violations that have occurred in a specific time and place and describe the causes of these human rights violations. Then, for one of the violations identified, discuss one specific effort that was made or is being made to deal with the violation. |
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