A site from the UK. Includes very detailed characterizations from the novel, as well as thematic analysis on topics such as marriage and societal standards.

Often characterized as unstable, Gadhafi's life as ruler of Libya is reviewed. Incidents between the United States and Gadhafi are also covered. A summary and discussion questions are provided. February, 2011

From a PBS television series, this site offers a summary of the features which characterize the phylum chordata and includes multiple color photos.

What characterizes animals from plants? General characteristics of the animal kingdom are noted here. Click on Classification for the Kingdom Animalia; clicking on the camera provides pictures of each animal.

A biographical profile of author Truman Capote. Included is a lesson on characterization for Grades 7-12.

Incredible photographs of the Alps along the Swiss-French frontier feature facts about the mountain range, individual peaks, and the glaciers that characterize the nation.

Students become marine biologists, and their goal is to characterize the biological communities that live on or near the seamount in the Monterey Bay area. There, they must identify a mystery mollusk.

This site provides information about the active ingredients registered as pesticides. Site discusses toxicology, exposure, dose-response and risk characterization.

With our 24-hour news cycle, we are used to media following politician's every move. For the first women in Congress, the media coverage was just as extensive for the early 1900's. They were a novelty and American's wanted to know their...

An excellent resource explaining the details that characterize ragtime music. From the rhythms to the typical form, this site gives a great overview of this early style of jazz.

This resource provides information about impetigo, a skin disorder characterized by crusting skin lesions and caused by bacterial infection. Content includes causes, symptoms, treatment, complications, and more.

Commentary on Paul's letter to the Galatians, an important document that characterizes Christianity as a break from Mosaic law. Includes information about the Galatian people and many references to corroborating evidence from the Acts of...

The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...

Learn how playwrights characterize their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.

FishBase indexes over 30,000 species of fish. Therefore, it may come as no surprise that they are able to offer this exhaustive list of "Flounders", and all species that can be characterized as such. Each link offers the specifics, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The reviewer characterizes "both, in their own ways, curmudgeons and snobs" with a relationship that is "poignant and full of love. And Bile." The review from "The International Herald Tribune" will be...

The purpose of this task is to show that the points on a parabola can be characterized by being equidistant from a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). Aligns with HSG-GPE.A.2.

In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...

Depressions are sustained troughs in the business cycle characterized by declines in output, employment, income, and trade. While they date from the earliest years of American history, little is known about them from the Colonial Era....

This is a collection of 16 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic The Cold War. After America and the Soviet Union fought as allies in World War II, a new "cold" war emerged between the two superpowers characterized not by direct...

Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...

Elegant stacked domes, reaching to the heavens, and towering, slender pencil minarets characterize Ottoman mosque architecture. Few mosques, however, are as visually stunning and architecturally significant as the Selimiye Complex in...

Hunefer's high status is reflected in the fine quality of his Book of the Dead, which was specially produced for him. This, and a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure, inside which the papyrus was found, are the only objects which can be ascribed to...

These activities encourage students to examine the tensions that characterized the political and social landscape of the early 17th century and to compare these with fears about the disintegration of the social structure expressed in...