The Indian Ocean is one of the oldest trade routes between Africa and Asia. During the early days of Indian Ocean trade‚ the buying and selling of goods took place only between the Swahili people living in East Africa and Arabs from Asia. Indian Ocean trade was made easy by the monsoon winds that circulated between Asia and the Eastern coast. These winds blew north to the south and from the south back to the north in a circular fashion. These winds change direction with the change of seasons. In
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concerned about Global warming‚ ocean acidification‚ and pollution. Scientist are mainly concerned with global warming because it’s affecting our food and water supply. Pollution is also a serious issue that scientist are researching because scientist still don’t know how much it’s affecting our food chain. Ocean acidification is a serious issue too because it’s causing parts of the ocean to unsaturate. A reason for ocean acidification is excess of carbon dioxide making the ocean more acidic than what it
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Beginning in the southeastern Vic city of Torquay and stretching a full 244 kilometres to the city of Allansford near Warrnambool‚ lies what has been labeled by many as the greatest example of scenic coastal road engineering that exists: The Great Ocean Road (TGOR). Having been actually built by returning World War I Aussie soldiers‚ TGOR today still stands as the world’s largest war memorial. This architectural wonder consists of a two-lane road‚ one lane in each direction. As it travels through
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Real-world Business Analysis: Blue Ocean Strategy Tools Analysis Paper MMBA-6570 Business Strategy for a Competitive Advantage Dr. Schulz Stephenie Wegmann April 15‚ 2013 Introduction The purpose of the blue ocean strategy is to focus on making the business itself better without focusing on the competition. Kim and Mauborgne (2005) state that “blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the
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McDonald’s using Blue Ocean Strategy McDonald’s is using Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS). Blue Ocean Strategy states that an organization can produce higher growth and profits by creating new demand in an uncontested market space than by competing head-to-head with other suppliers for known customers in an existing industry. First‚ McDonald’s is using the value innovation concept of BOS. By this‚ McDonald’s believe that product/service differentiation and lower cost are achievable simultaneously. The
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Blue Ocean Strategy Plan MKT/421 Introduction In today’s competitive market where companies attempt to outperform one another by creating a brand new product or adjusting an existing product in attempts to appeal to a larger customer base are referred to as a Blue and Red Ocean strategy plans; “Red Oceans represent industries in existence today‚ and the industry boundaries are defined‚ accepted‚ and the competitive rules of the game are understood. Blue oceans denote all the industries
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Breaking it down into pieces this is how ocean acidification is defined to be apart a resilient system. First‚ it can survive‚ adapt and grow to see change. Oceans are just not going to disappear‚ they have been around since the world has evolved‚ its not the first time it has come to see change. Even though this change is not natural examples likes the ice age‚ oceans since the beginning of time have been adapting to change‚ this is just another state affair where the world has to alter to adaptations
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Alex Larson P.7 12/3/12 Change and Continuity of Commerce in the Indian Ocean Region from 650 CE to 1750 CE. The Indian Ocean has always been a powerful trading region‚ between East Africa and China‚ that has caused religion‚ crops‚ languages‚ and people to spread. Through the rise and fall of powerful land and sea empires‚ trade routes shifted and control switched hands numerous times over history. The goods have remained fairly constant‚ compared to the traders and the powers behind them
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erupts onto the earth’s surface. They can either form on land or in the ocean. The Cascade Range in Washington‚ Oregon and northern California is composed of volcanic mountains. Some of the largest volcanic mountains are found along divergent boundaries‚ which form the mid-ocean ridges. The mid-ocean ridges have huge volcanic mountain chains that run through the Atlantic‚ Pacific and Indian Oceans. The mountains in the mid-ocean ridges can actually grow tall enough to create islands such as Iceland
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The Indian Ocean trade led to an increase in sea trade. “Unlike the Atlantic‚ the Indian Ocean had long served to connect rather than divide‚ facilitating trade among East Africa‚ the Persian Gulf‚ Indian‚ Southeast Asia‚ and China along maritime routes complementing the Silk Road that had long bridged eastern and western Eurasia by land” (Hansen and Curtis 471). The Dutch and the Portuguese stepped in‚ and intruded on the Indian Ocean. The goal of the Portuguese was to build new networks of trade
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