The difference between Potential Compensation and Pareto Optimality

What ethical criterion – Potential Compensation or Pareto Optimality – was underlying the Province’s decision to approve this project?  Briefly explain the difference between Potential Compensation and Pareto Optimality.

Similarities between the Qin-Han tradition and that of the Sui-Tang

Why could China re-create its empire- just 400 years after the fall of the Han- but Rome could not? Are there similarities between the Qin-Han tradition and that of the Sui-Tang? Between Han and Tang expansion and contraction?

Oreskes’s major points about the merchants of doubt

What are Oreskes’s major points about the “merchants of doubt” she describes? How were a handful of atomic-age scientists able to create doubt and halt protections on issues as diverse as tobacco smoking, acid rain, pesticides, and climate change? What were the chief strategies, and how will these be best addressed in future? What are some other examples of this kind of obfuscation that you see in the news recently?

What were the fundamental goals of early anti-Jewish legislation?

Discuss the various ways German, Austrian, and Czech Jews were discriminated against before the outbreak of WWII. What were the fundamental goals of early anti-Jewish legislation? What was the extent of Hitler’s role in the creation of anti-Jewish legislation during the 1930s?  NO INTERNET SEARCHES Tutors who know this period.

Compare and contrast the Tale of Wenamun and the Battle Scene

Compare and contrast the Tale of Wenamun and the Battle Scene by considering how they construct Egyptian and non-Egyptian identities during the New Kingdom.

What were the causes of the imperialism that took place after 1880?

What were the causes of the imperialism that took place after 1880? What effects did the European quest for colonies have on Africa and Asia?

Explain how the slave clauses in the Constitution embedded slavery more deeply than ever

Explain how the slave clauses in the Constitution embedded slavery more deeply than ever in  American life and politics, even though they were compromises.  Be sure to explain what the various clauses were.

What challenges of the working class can be derived from Landscape for a Good Woman by Carolyn Steedman?

What challenges of the working class can be derived from Landscape for a Good Woman by Carolyn Steedman? What are some main themes of the book’s discussion of the working class?

The Atlantic slave trade was first and foremost about money

The Atlantic slave trade was first and foremost about money. What were some of the important financial aspects that made this system function the way it did? How were Africans who were not slaves involved in the slave trade? How did the slave trade affect African communities, both in the interior and along the coast?

Describe the story of Solomon and Sheba as the political ideology of the ruling dynasty

Describe the story of Solomon and Sheba as the political ideology of the ruling dynasty. Elaborate more on the discussion we had on this topic in class today.