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Rest Of The World Indian Ocean
1,954 wordsFor nearly three decades in the early 15 th century China was the most powerful force in the world. They had fine artisans who crafted the most beautiful, delicate porcelains and silks in the known world. They had the technologies of firepower, astronomy, and oceanic navigation. They had the belief that they were the center of the world, the Middle Kingdom, and that the Son of Heaven ruled them. But most importantly, they had the means to bring their influences and culture to the rest of the wor...
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Classic Hero Theseus Mary Renault Tells Story
791 wordsReview of Mary Renault's The King Must Die Mary Renault tells a wonderfully dashing tale of the classic Hero Theseus, who was said to have lived shortly before the time of the Trojan War. Although the book is very appealing to me the author did not follow the classic legends in several aspects. This can be a good technique and does bring newness to the story, however some departures changed the very fabric of the tale. In Renault's story many details are added that give the tale much more flavor...
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Golden Age Merchant Ships
1,039 wordsPiracy is usually determined as a seizure of property (ship, airplane or software) that holds no commission from the owner (Piracy 1). It is mostly linked to the dirty, bearded men that sailed the seven seas and robed merchant ships or ships that carried a valuable cargo. This however, was not the case in the late eighties and is definitely not the case today in the nineties. Now software pirates copy software without the permission of the company for their own personal benefits. Since piracy in...
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Brave Mouse Reepicheep University College Oxford Lewis
1,154 wordsThe story begins in the bedroom of Eustace Clarence Scrubb... he disliked his cousins, the Pevensies: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. He was small of stature, but somewhat of a bully. The Pevensies had come to stay with him and his family, which they did not want to do, as they dislike Scrubb as well. Edmund and Lucy were sharing some memories of their adventures in Narnia in a room at the Scrubb house, in which hung a picture of ship sailing straight towards you... the ship had a dragons head o...
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Wife And Son Return Home
1,069 wordsIn life we all struggle and search for happiness and love. We are in a constant pursuit to find and hold onto the things that we hold dear to ourselves. This is much like the book The Odyssey. Odysseus was on a search to find his way back to the things that brought him peace and happiness. The book was very much like our own lives and though this supposedly happened hundreds of years ago, this is the same journey we live through. From the beginning of the story it seems as though Odysseus has re...
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Christopher Columbus Santa Maria
670 wordsChristopher Columbus was an Italian navigator. He was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. He was the oldest of three sons. He was the first European to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. He began working at sea early and moved to Portugal. He got married to Felipa Perestello e Money in 1479 and had a son in 1480 named Diego. A few years later Felipa died, and Columbus began another relationship with Beatriz Enriquez de Havana of Cordoba and had his second son Ferdinand. Columbus first voyage he departed ...
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Accused Of Teaching Jesus Christ Paul
1,025 words... e practice of circumcision as a requirement for salvation. However, James emphasizes that the Gentiles who turn to God should avoid unlawful marriages, idolatry, meat from strangled animals, and blood. In this chapter, Paul proceeds to Syria and is separated from Barnabas who travels to Cyprus. Chapter 16 In Lycaonia, Paul, Silas, and Timothy travel from city to city to preach, and day after day, the Church grows stronger in faith and increases in number. Following Lycaonia, they proceed to ...
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Young Man Theseus High
357 wordsThe ancient Greek myths exposed many aspects of their male society. The focus of today are the different ideas of what was accepted and approved of back then. In order to show you this, examples will be taken from the story Theseus. The expectations of male youth were to be strong and brave. At the early age of fifteen, Theseus proves his strength by lifting a huge boulder and finding his fathers sword and a pair of sandals underneath it. On his way to Athens, Theseus encounters evil and courage...
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East India Company Indian Woman
1,283 wordsThis tale is offered to the memory of one William Hawkins (1575 - 1613), a brandy-drinking, Turkish-speaking seaman and adventurer who was the first Englishman to reach the court of Jahangir, the Great Moghul of India. There he delivered gifts from the new East India Company and a letter from King James proposing direct trade, then a zealously protected monopoly of Portugal. As he gradually adopted Indian ways, Hawkins became a court favorite of the Moghul, who made him a knightly Khan and event...
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Luxury Car Eight Years
1,987 words... the powerful D 1 sedan, the company's first foray into the luxury market under the VW name. He even seems to have settled on his heir apparent -- Bernd Pischetsrieder, the former boss of BMW and a supremely able executive in his own right. Looks like a job well done. Pich has already rewarded himself by buying a 102 -foot yacht to sail around the world with his family. The boat is the talk of nautical circles. The gossip is that the $ 15 million yacht, being built by the top-notch Dutch ship...
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Middle Class One Thousand
1,419 wordsIn the story "The Necklace" the author's theme is to show us that greed and envy can lead to destruction. In this story Mathilde is a very envious woman whom always dreamed of a life that she could not have. She was very charming and beautiful woman who thought that she must have been born into the wrong life, since she had no way of getting known and married by a rich man. Instead she married a simple middle class man and lived a middle class life. All the while she dreamed of living the life o...
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Moby Dick Killing Moby
651 wordsThe novel Moby Dick is the story of how Ishmael the narrator came to set sail on a fateful whaling voyage. He travels to Nantucket, where he visits the docks to find a ship; he discovers the Pequod. As Ishmael and his friend Queequeg make their way to board the ship, they meet a haggard looking, wild-eyed man who calls himself Elijah. He warns them against sailing with the Pequod, and hints that there might be something to fear about their mysterious captain, Ahab. Although Ishmael has not yet m...
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Employer Employee Relationship Play Their Cards Organization
652 wordsThis paper talks about how the employer-employee relationship has evolved over a period of time and how it is changing in the days of recession. This relationship is mostly governed by the decisions an organization takes about its employees and how the leader of the organization win the trust of their people in the bad times. Gone are the days when a person would join an organization and continue to work with the same organization till he retired. The organization would consider the employees th...
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Economic Development During Renaissance
1,223 wordsEconomic Development During Renaissance The Renaissance is an era about which there is much disagreement among historians. Some portray it as a significant era of triumph in human development, while others claim that the term is nearly meaningless and the whole concept should be abandoned. However all agree that Renaissance was the era, during which the cultural, economic, social, and humanistic development experienced its fastest growth. In this paper I will try to present the most significant ...
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Third World Countries State Of Georgia
785 wordsEnergy With the development of the global economy the flow of international product between the countries intensified. When going to a typical supermarket and buying food, you are likely to buy more than 30 % of the international products and in 5 years you are likely to buy over 40 % of foods grown abroad (Piccinini, 120). In the following essay I am going to speak about the research I have conducted with respect to the international foods originating in the third world countries. The first thi...
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Moby Dick Killing Moby
1,358 wordsMoby Dick The novel Moby Dick is the story of how Ishmael the narrator came to set sail on a fateful whaling voyage. He travels to Nantucket, where he visits the docks to find a ship; he discovers the Pequod. As Ishmael and his friend Queequeg make their way to board the ship, they meet a haggard looking, wild-eyed man who calls himself Elijah. He warns them against sailing with the Pequod, and hints that there might be something to fear about their mysterious captain, Ahab. Although Ishmael has...
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British Museum National Geographic
1,185 wordsBlue heaven Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage Deborah Cramer 442 pp, Norton Adventures in Ocean Exploration Robert D Ballard 288 pp, National Geographic Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean Derek Hayes 224 pp, British Museum Encyclopedia of Underwater and Marine Archaeology ed James Delgado 493 pp, British Museum If all Earths history were crammed into a single day, calculates Deborah Cramer as she rocks in the cradle of the deep aboard a research vessel, the Atlantic oceans entire existe...
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Santo Domingo Christopher Columbus
838 wordsChristopher Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search for the all-water route to Asia, but instead achieved fame for making landfall in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver, and it is believed that Columbus entered this trade as a young man. In the mid- 1470 s he made his first trading voyage to the island of Kids, in the Aegean Sea. Settling in Lisbon, where...
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Father And Son Trojan War
2,552 wordsIn The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs of this characteristic were represented by the sheer reverence towards the gods and the humanities the Greek society exhibited, and are both deeply rooted within the story. In the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer h...
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Arthur Gordon Pym House Of Seven
1,169 wordsnarrative styles in Melville's Bartleby, Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym, and Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables. How all three authors utilize a conversational tone for the function of their work. In works by three of the most classically American authors of the nineteenth century, Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne, a trait that can be considered common to all three authors is pronounced clearly as a means to their narration. This trait is that of deploying a narrative laden with- and moreover led by -co...
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