Would Francisco Pizarro be considered a war criminal today? Francisco Pizarro‚ born c. 1471-1478 in Trujillo‚ Spain‚ was a Spanish conquistador. He is known as the conqueror of the Inca Empire‚ and founder of Lima‚ the capital of Peru. Not only did he participate in the Vasco Nunez de Balboa expedition to Panama that discovered the Pacific Ocean‚ but he also claimed most of South America for Spain and opened the way for Spanish culture and religion to dominate South America. In doing so‚ Pizarro
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WHAT FACTORS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY RESEARCHERS WHEN DEFINING THE DATA REQUIRED FOR THEIR RESEARCH Data are materials or information gathered during the process of making inquiry about problems. “Data of whatever form do not just appear or lie around waiting to be causally picked up by some passing researcher but have to be given form and shape in other to quantify as data; made relevant in a word to a research problem” (Ackryod and Hughes‚ 1992). In other words‚ data are systematically collected
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To what extent can Sun Yixian be considered the father of the Chinese Revolution? Sun Yixian can be considered the father of the Chinese Revolution as he is contemporarily titled both officially and unofficially in different areas of China as "Forerunner of the Revolution" and National Father‚ Mr. Sun Chungshan (Yixian). Sun was also the first president of the Chinese Provisional Government‚ funded the revolutions‚ kept the spirit of revolution alive‚ successfully merged minor revolutionary groups
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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg should be considered in the top 100 most influential people of all time because he has shown many qualities of service and internationalism. Since he invented the movable type printing press‚ people brought newspapers and bibles into our life. Many people learned how to read because many more books were printed. Gutenberg benefited many people because people didn’t have to keep writing books over and over again‚ they could just print it and spend their
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the NCAA should consider offering sports as an academic major. Athletes who could major in the sport they enjoy playing can have the same enjoyment learning more about their sport and can potentially make a career out of it. Also Sports should be considered an academic major because if there are majors in theater‚ dancing‚ art and music then sports should be as well. Furthermore‚ athletes who can study their sport might perform better. “The NCCA should stop treating athletic departments as ticket
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To what extent can the British system of government be considered a cabinet government? Cabinet government is a system of government where cabinet is the main policy maker‚ it is the center of government‚ it is able to oversee and largely control government activities and it forms the base of collective ministerial responsibility. In recent years though‚ it has lost‚ to some extent its policy making function as large departments have become more independent and it now deals with emergencies
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Jim Thorpe was considered the greatest athlete in the world‚ winning four of the five events‚ losing only the javelin. In the decathlon Thorpe set an Olympic mark of 8‚413 points that would stand for two decades. A half year later charges against Thorpe for professionalism led to Thorpe’s confession that he had been paid to play baseball in North Carolina in 1909 and 1910. After AAU and the American Olympic Committee declared Thorpe a professional‚ they asked Thorpe to return the medals won at the
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Question : Psychology follows the scientific method and is therefore considered as a science. Discuss Psychology is a science and therefore it follows the scientific method. The scientific method is a standardized way of making observations‚ gathering data‚ forming theories‚ testing predictions and interpreting results. This scientific method employs a set of rules that apply to a form of research that identifies cause and effect relations. This research is called an experiment and it consists
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The ice man and the ice maiden‚ compared‚ both have similarities and difference‚ There are many different factors involved when determining how similar the ice man and ice maiden can be considered. Factors that should be taken in consideration are things like the discovery‚ evidence‚ common similarities with the bodies and the their deaths. The discovery and how they discovered held many similarities and differences. First off‚ the obvious is that they were both frozen‚ in areas of cold temperature
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A Christ figure is depicted as a visionary character who is symbolic to Jesus Christ and suggests towards the beginning of the novel‚ the reader learns more about Gatsby’s early life and can see how he to Biblical stories. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the intriguing and mysterious character Jay Gatsby is undoubtedly represented as a Christ figure. Fitzgerald uses strikingly similar characteristics between Gatsby and Jesus‚ resulting images to the Bible and Gatsby’s ultimate death echoing
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