GCC HUMANITIES
With this method, communities build solutions from within, as opposed to looking to police and prisons to solve societal challenges
What is transformative justice?
This item is usually revealing of some aspect of your innermost self
What’s an “essence object”?
A people whose land, whose coconut trees, and whose entire traditional island culture is at risk of disappearing under the rising ocean.
Who are the Kiribati (“KEER-ih-bahs”)?
f(x)
What is a function?
She is the main character of The Mystery Woman in Room Three, from the Dominican Republic, lives with her mom, is learning English, and discovers the missing Senator in Shady Orchards.
Who is Amandys?
The three persuasive appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
A number on each element of the periodic table that tells how many protons can be found in the nucleus of that element's atom.
What is atomic mass?
Anatomical structures that number 206 in an adult human and are categorized as long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid.
What are bones?
This form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-Black people to portray a caricature of a Black person
What is Blackface?
This author stated, "My silence had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you."
Who is Audre Lorde?
This essay type (A, B, C, or D) was written by a student who *has* faced a significant challenge but *does not know* what they want to study in college.
What’s a “Type B essay”?
A biome that functions as Earth's “carbon sink.” Its lush trees suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The capacity of this biome to filter carbon dioxide is essential for mitigating global warming and its effects.The answer to a question in the basic form of a sentence
What is the (Amazon) Rain Forest?
first, outside, inside , last
What is F.O.I.L.?
The Senator of Florida who gets kidnapped at the beginning of The Mystery Woman in Room Three.
Who is Senator Jane Samuelson?
The organization in the U.S. government meant to protect the environment.
What is the EPA?
The elements: Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon. They often exist by themselves and do not bond with other elements.
What are noble gases?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What is DNA?
This person said in their narrative, “why does the slave ever love?”
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
Speaking words of __________ as a daily practice allows us to understand one another's humanity
What is Love, empathy, or compassion?
I’m the title of an essay whose first paragraph reads: “At age three, I was separated from my mother. The court gave full custody of both my baby brother and me to my father. Of course, at my young age, I had no clue what was going on. However, it did not take me long to realize that life with my father would not be without its difficulties”
What’s “Raising Anthony”?
A people whose gelid geographic location is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world.
Who are the Yup’ik?
The number 3 in 3x
What is the coefficient?
The last sentence of the introduction in an essay.
(In general) where should the thesis appear?
The year Roe v. Wade was originally ratified.
What is 1973?
The heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance by a given degree/amount.
What is specific heat?
Water moving across the membrane to achieve equilibrium of another substance.
What is osmosis?
These are the four parts of a thesis statement.
What are so what/who cares, argument, topic, evidence?
Before proceeding with any activity involving another person, one should have this
What is consent?
I’m the title of an essay whose first paragraph reads: “As a kid I was always curious. I was unafraid to ask questions and didn’t worry how dumb they would make me sound. In second grade I enrolled in a summer science program and built a solar- powered oven that baked real cookies. I remember obsessing over the smallest details: Should I paint the oven black to absorb more heat? What about its shape?”
What’s “Endodontics”?
A “man-made” process that could cause the pH of the Caribbean Ocean to drop from 8.2 to 7.8 over the course of the century, the largest such change in 20 million years.
What is acidification?
y=mx + b
What is slope intercept?
Climate change is causing sea levels to rise, which is leading to this.
What is flooding in Florida?
A website you should use as a resource to see step by step how to cite information in the various formats along with other helpful guides for writing at a college level.
What is Purdue Owl?
A substance that is dissolved into another substance.
What is a solute?
How adapted an organism is to survive and reproduce.
What is fitness?
This person says to Alice Walker "...there's a world in your eye".
Who is her daughter?
An ______ poem is a type of poem that involves redaction of certain words to create a new poem
What is erasure?
I’m the final act in the structure of a narrative essay. I follow the climax or moment of truth of the plot.
What’s “denouement”?
Because of climate change, you are a people for whom malnutrition has become common. Half of your children die before the age of one. Those who survive develop a reddish fuzz on top of their heads—a sign of malnutrition.
Who are the Barbara?
x = (−b ± √(b^2 − 4ac))/ (2a)
What is the quadratic formula?
These are types of domestic and family abuse that we learned about in the article "What is Domestic Violence." (List 7 out of 11)
What are financial/economic abuse, verbal abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, social isolation abuse, digital/technology abuse, spiritual/cultural abuse, stalking, sexual abuse, reproductive control, damage to personal property, and physical abuse?
This is how some communities are impacted more than others by climate change (list 4 out of 7).
What is... (1) Air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. (2) Accessibility concerns for seniors and people with disabilities (evacuation, extreme heat). (3) Limited income prevents people from accessing safe housing. (4) Language barriers slow the spread of important information to immigrant communities. (5) Indigenous communities lose more and more land as populations migrate into their territory. (6) Drought limits affordable access to healthy food. (7) Young people are impacted as their futures are negatively altered by climate change.
The heat released from an amount of platinum (130 J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹) cooled from 250.0K to 240.0K and whose mass is 500g.
What is -650J
Changes in temperature and/or pH that cause an enzyme to lose both shape and function.
What is denaturation?
The following are examples of laws: "People were not allowed to gather in groups of more than 3" "People could not own weapons" "People could not read or right"
What are slave codes?