I think the answer is the first choice but I'm not 100% sure
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Historians have argued that the settlement of the English colonies was
undertaken in a haphazard manner, with little regard to the geography,
climate, peoples, or practical demands of the New World. this is true, the basis for the setelers coming to America was haphazard. They came to America to seek refuge from the Huge restrictions of the British monarchy. When they got here they did nothing but Industrialize start wars and kill Indians. When they first came they brought with them deadly (to the Indians) diseases, and also contracted deadly diseases. That happened for a good decade. After that they continued to go about steeling the land form the Indians and turning it into their land. The made countless treaties and broke almost all of them. Then they fought for independence and won leaving everything in shambles. After that came the great industrialization which drained energy and lively hood out of the geography. Every thing down to the very reason they came was done in a very haphazard way.
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One of the major controversies in developmental psychology centers if development is continuous or discontinuous. Those psychologists who support the continuous view of development suggest that development involves gradual and ongoing changes throughout the life span, with behavior in the earlier stages of development providing the basis of skills and abilities required for the next stages. Not all psychologists, however, agree that development is a continuous process. Some view development as a discontinuous process. They believe development involves distinct and separate stages with different kinds of behavior occurring in each stage. This suggests that the development of certain abilities in each stage, such as specific emotions or ways of thinking, have a definite starting and ending point. However, there is no exact time at which ability can appear or disappears. Although some types of thinking, feeling or behaving may seem to appear suddenly, it is more than likely that this has been developing gradually for some time. Stage theories of development rest on the assumption that development is a discontinuous process involving distinct stages which are characterized by qualitative differences in behavior. They also assume that the structure of the stages is not variable according to each individual, however the time of each stage may vary individually. Stage theories can be contrasted with continuous theories, which posit that development is an incremental process.
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