My two explorers are Marco Polo and Ponce De Leon. Marco Polo was one of the most famous westerner travelers. He traveled across Asia. He sailed south from Venice‚ Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. He also explored an area south of Beijing and the coast of china which is now Vietnam. Ponce de Leon sailed for Florida in the Americas. The reason why Marco Polo did his exploration was to find all kinds of different goods to trade. He did this because he was learning about trading goods. He
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Developing Nations in Asia and Latin America trying to emulate India’s Success Story The Indian software exports‚ as is well known‚ have grown from less than $100 million before 1990 to over $5 billion in 2000. What is not well known is that revenue per person per year has grown from less than $20‚000 to over $50‚000 in most large companies in the last five years. This is not simply due to ‘inflation’. Though the industry is still focused on tapping the huge software services market‚ most of the
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prepared. Now these disasters are too much. Storms become stronger‚ earthquakes divides our land‚ hurricanes blows up everything. Wildfire burns the forests and all the like. The Philippines is considered the second most disaster-prone country in Asia‚ closely behind China‚ among 28 Asian countries in terms of the number of disasters reported in 2012‚ based on a study conducted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). In our country‚ flash floods mainly happen. When
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Science CP9 HR. 5 1/6/96 The Ural Mountains are a rugged spine across Russia‚ running 1‚300 miles from the fringe of the Arctic in the North‚ to the bend of the Ural River in the South. Traditionally they form a boundary between Europe and Asia. The north- south course of the Urals is relatively narrow‚ varying from about 20 to 90 miles in width‚ but it cuts across the vast latitude landscape regions of the Eurasian landmass‚ from Arctic waste to semidesert; the Urals also are part of the
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Europe is‚ by convention‚ one of the world’s seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia‚ Europe is generally ’divided’ from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains‚ the Ural River‚ the Caspian and Black Seas‚ and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean and other bodies of water to the north‚ the Atlantic Ocean to the west‚ the Mediterranean Sea to the south‚ and the Black Sea and connected
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global reputation of Japan changed. Many Asian countries and leaders were amazed and felt proud of Japan’s victory. India’s Nehru‚ upon welcoming Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke in 1957‚ mentioned that “the Japan that stopped the European invasion into Asia looked as an Asian hero in my eyes. Then Japan stood as an icon of Asia’s firm determination to stand against the European powers.”3 Various publications
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Ali Explain briefly and evaluate why young British Asians may adopt hybrid identities British Asians are British citizens who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from India‚ Pakistan‚ Bangladesh‚ Sri Lanka and Nepal‚ a region known as South Asia or the Indian subcontinent. Immigration of South Asian people to the United Kingdom began in the period of British Raj in the Indian subcontinent. Immigration continued to increase largely even after the independence of India‚ Pakistan‚ Sri Lanka
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Movies as Platform to Shift Stereotypes of Asian Women Assignment 3 by Angelina G 0971330 T G 17 Academic Writing WRIT001/Term 1 – 2010/2011 I declare that this Assignment is my original work and all information obtained from other sources has been cited accordingly. _______________________ Signature and Date Course Instructor: Charlotte Arlene Bastion Movies are still the most seductive and powerful of artistic mediums‚ manipulating us with ease by a powerful
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World War II was one of the most monumental events in history and certainly one of the most significant events in the 20th century. The series of confrontational events that led up to Pearl Harbor and the events that followed up until the Japanese surrender in 1945‚ were waged on the political‚ and military fronts‚ but one aspect of the war which sometimes is overlooked is the war waged on the social front. What makes the social aspect of war so significant si that it involves a dynamic within humans
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The Effects of Japan’s Geography On Its Culture & Economy Japan is an archipelago that is covered in mountains and consist more than six-thousand islands. Japan has a warm and wet climate‚ also since Japan has very little flat land it was a challenge to farm. Since farming was difficult the Japanese decided to grow rice‚ rice was very easy to grow and japan had the perfect weather to grow it. The geography of Japan was very strange for a civilization of people to live on. Only 15% of the land
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