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These labels are often used to describe certain types of theories adopted by historians, but what do they actually mean?

Voluntarist: These approaches stress the importan...

Metamorphism is a process by which preexisting rocks can be altered in composition or structure, to form a new rock. Regional metamorphism occurs in areas of above average pressures and temperatures, such...

Singer’s preference utilitarianism as laid out in his book practical ethics, asserts that when thinking ethically one should take the view of the ‘impartial observer’. By this he means that your own inter...

Reminder - a cartesian equation is written in terms of x and y (e.g. y = 2x + 3) while parametric equations are written with x and y separately in terms of t.

Example: Find the cartesian ...

Electron pairs arrange themselves so they are as far apart as possible (electron pair repulsion theory). In a covalent compound, the number of electron pairs around the central atom determines the shap...