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Calculate the change in entropy associated with a hospital f…

Calculate the change in entropy associated with a hospital freezer lightbulb being activated upon opening the freezer door for 10 seconds. Assume the following: i) the freezer maintains a constant temperature of -80 oC throughout;  ii) zero Kelvin = -273 oC; iii) the bulb emits 2.5 J s-1 in the form of heat.    

Now answer all the following questions. You may use any of t…

Now answer all the following questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources which you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1 Study Sources A and B. How far do these two sources agree? Explain your answer using details of the sources. {7}   2 Study Sources C and D. How similar are these two cartoons? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge. {8}   3 Study Source E. What is the cartoonist’s message?  Explain your answer  using  details  of  the  source  and  your knowledge. {8}   4 Study Source F. Are you surprised by  this  source?  Explain  your  answer  using  details  of  the  source  and  your  knowledge. {8}   5 Study Sources G and H. How far does Source G prove that Source H is wrong? Explain your answer using details of the sources and your knowledge {7}   6 Study all the sources. How far do these sources provide convincing evidence that the League of Nations was a failure?  Use the sources to explain your answer. {12}

SOURCE A It became clear very quickly that the League would…

SOURCE A It became clear very quickly that the League would be just an addition to existing international relations mechanisms and often one to be kept at arm’s length; Britain and France had no intention of allowing the Treaty’s  enforcement  to  become  a  League  responsibility.  It  is  also  not  clear  whether  the  ‘new  diplomacy’ achieved different results than the ‘old’ diplomacy might have done in similar circumstances. The League, however, did have its uses. Handing over the government of Danzig and the Saar to  the  League  solved  tricky  problems.  The  League’s  beneficial  role  in  inhibiting  slavery,  international  prostitution  and  the  trading  of  drugs,  in  promoting  the  protection  of  refugees,  and  preventing  and  controlling disease, was acknowledged. It enjoyed successes in the Swedish-Finnish quarrel over the  Aaland Islands in 1920 and in the Greece-Bulgaria dispute of 1925, but significantly, both were in  accessible parts of Europe, were between minor states, and did not involve the direct interests of a  great power. The League was much less effective where any of these criteria did not apply. It was in Abyssinia in 1935 that the demands of the old and new diplomacies came into sharpest conflict. The circumstances meant that the credibility of the League and the ‘new’ diplomacy became linked with the response to this problem. The lessons were painful. The League had ended in failure. It had been based on too many paradoxes: the attempt to create collective security in a world of sovereign national states and the hope of international democracy in a world dominated by great powers. After Abyssinia the League became an increasing irrelevance. From a history book published in 2010.

Option B: 20th Century topic HOW FAR WAS THE LEAGUE OF NATIO…

Option B: 20th Century topic HOW FAR WAS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS A FAILURE? Study the Background Information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. Background Information The League of Nations faced many difficult problems after its establishment in 1919. Its critics claim that it achieved little and point to the fact that another world war broke out in 1939. Its defenders argue that although it did eventually fail to prevent another world war, it had several successes. Overall, how far was the League of Nations a failure?