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Let Q be an m × m orthogonal matrix. (a) Prove that for any given vectors u and v in R m, the angle between u and v is the same as the angle between Qu and Qv. (b) Prove that IIQII₂ = 1. (c) Give an example 2 × 2 orthogonal matrix Q, such that IIQII does not equal 1 and IIQII_∞ does not equal 1. (d) Prove that IIQAII₂ = IIAII₂, for any m × m matrix A.

Two arguments offer the bare beginnings of an answer to this complicated question. The first is that the desire to exploit labor was a central feature of most colonizing societies in the Americas, especially those that relied on the exportation of valuable commodities like sugar, tobacco, rice and (much later) cotton. Cheap labor in large quantities was the critical factor that made these commodities profitable, and planters did not care who provided it - the indigenous population, white indentured servants and eventually African slaves - so long as they were there to be exploited.

To say that this system of exploitation was morally corrupt requires one to identify when moral arguments against slavery began to appear. One also has to recognize that there were two sources of moral opposition to slavery, and they only emerged after 1750. One came from radical Protestant sects like the Quakers and Baptists, who came to perceive that the exploitation of slaves was inherently sinful. The other came from the revolutionaries who recognized, as Jefferson argued in his Notes on the State of Virginia, that the very act of owning slaves would implant an "unremitting despotism" that would destroy the capacity of slaveowners to act as republican citizens. The moral corruption that Jefferson worried about, in other words, was what would happen to slaveowners who would become victims of their own

"boisterous passions.

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But the great problem that Jefferson faced - and which many of his modern critics ignore - is that he could not imagine how black and white peoples could ever coexist as free citizens in one republic. There was, he argued in Query XIV of his Notes, already too much foul history dividing these peoples.

And worse still, Jefferson hypothesized, in proto-racist terms, that the differences between the peoples would also doom this relationship. He thought that African Americans should be freed - but colonized elsewhere.

This is the aspect of Jefferson's thinking that we find so distressing and depressing, for obvious reasons. Yet we also have to recognize that he was trying to grapple, I think sincerely, with a real problem.

No historical account of the origins of American slavery would ever satisfy our moral conscience today, but as I have repeatedly tried to explain to my Stanford students, the task of thinking historically is not about making moral judgments about people in the past. That's not hard work if you want to do it, but your condemnation, however justified, will never explain why people in the past acted as they did. That's our real challenge as historians.

Do you believe the founders of the United States are still relevant to our modern times? Why or why not? Use evidence from the text and materials from the unit to support your claim

At different moments, the Virginia colonists had tried to limit the extent of the slave trade, but the British crown had blocked those efforts. But Virginians also knew that their slave system was reproducing itself naturally.

They could eliminate the slave trade without eliminating slavery. That was not true in the West Indies or Brazil.

The deeper reason for the deletion of this passage was that the members of the Continental Congress were morally embarrassed about the colonies' willing involvement in the system of chattel slavery. To make any claim of this nature would open them to charges of rank hypocrisy that were best left unstated.

If the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, thought slavery was morally corrupt, how did they reconcile owning slaves themselves, and how was it still built into American law?

Based on Eurocentric beauty ideals, give an example of a piece of media (from an advert, social media post, film, show, comic book, magazine, etc.) that you think celebrates a type of beauty that tends to fall outside of those parameters. Do you see yourself reflected in it? Give a few lines on how you think it does this. 

35Cl2 (560 cm-1), 39K35Cl (281 cm-1), 1H2 (4401 cm-1). Calculate the force constants for these molecules if treated as harmonic oscillators. 

Post an example of a type of media you've encountered (so a book, film, show, meme, gif, podcast, song, etc.) that you think makes commentary or pushes back against any of the following: racist ideologies, orientalist ideologies, processes of racialization, gender stereotyping, processes of Othering. Give a line or two on how you think it does that. You can share links/images/gifs

English homework

(For this assignment I chose the story “Lob Girl” by Joan Aiken)

Subject-civics

Identify and explain four of the six goals expressed in the American Constitution's Preamble for the American government system.

Subject-civics

Writing Activity 13: "I claim the 5th."

Instructions: You've heard it stated, "I decline to testify on the basis of my Fifth Amendment right!" Write a paragraph that explains the meaning of this statement. Also, state under what kind of circumstances might this statement be made and why? (This will take a little internet searching. Use "key word--Fifth Amendment--as a starting point.) 

Subject-civics

Name and describe with some detail (at least three sentences each) the functions of each branch of the American government.