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    Q1.       What is Reed’s Position in the Columbus market? How does a super market make money? Ans.   Reed is considered as market leaders when it comes to product quality and they are high-end grocery store.  Competition is present in the Columbus market with Reed’s market share distributed on multiple levels. Every part of the supermarket from parking lot to checkout counter is designed to make you spend more money and buy more food than you need. Customers may go to the store for milk and come

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    The article “America Before Columbus” written by Lewis Lord and Sarah Burke intrigues readers interest and curiosity with an interesting topic of Native Americans and America before Columbus arrived. I will be discussing some ideas I summarized from this article. First of all‚ I have never heard of the name Cahokia before prior to reading the article. I was surprised at the fact that it was once a city in Illinois. In fact‚ the article described Cahokia as an Illinois Babylon. In addition‚ a misconception

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    Columbus DBQ Essay Taking into consideration the moral standards of the 1490’s Europe‚ Christopher Columbus is clearly guilty of the crimes against him. The crimes are as follows: he and his men were responsible for the deaths of many of the indigenous people referred to by Columbus as “Indians‚” and accused of causing ecological devastation through the importing of plant and animal life not native to the Western Hemisphere. Columbus physically interacted with the Native Americans by using force

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    Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa‚ Italy in 1451. Ever since Columbus was a little boy he loved the sea. Christopher Columbus became a sailor at the age of 15 years old. After many years or experience with the sea and with a captain with him he became an excellent sea captain. Over the years Columbus collected all sorts of maps that showed that the earth was round some maps even showed that it was possible to sail west end up east. One of Columbus’s maps showed that Japan

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    Vikings arrived in what is now Canada five hundred years before Christopher Columbus landed in the New World. Although Columbus didn’t discover America first‚ he became known for paving a way for a new era of human civilization. Many questions about the exploration of the New World: Was Christopher Columbus a hero or villain? Why were the English colonies more successful than France‚ Spain‚ and the Netherlands? Christopher Columbus started his famous voyage on August 3‚ 1492. After a dangerous three-month

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    Christopher Columbus‚ known as the man who founded America‚ was actually looking for an Atlantic route to Asia. He had four voyages between 1492 and 1504 were wondrous at first‚ but disappointing in the end. He won support of Ferdinand and Isabella‚ the Spanish monarchs‚ for the “enterprise of the Indies.” According to his letters‚ some people see him as a hero‚ and some don’t. In my opinion‚ I think he is a little bit of both. In his first letter to Luis de Santangel regarding his first voyage

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    Christopher Columbus was born between August and October 1451 in Genoa‚ Italy. After 41 years‚ Christopher finally began his first voyage on August 3‚ C.1492. He had three ships‚ the Pinta‚ the Niña and the Santa Maria which the Queen and King of Spain gave to him for his first voyage. According to gilder lehrman‚ ‘Christopher sailed to the Bahamas that he called San Salvador but the indigenous people called it Guanahani. For nearly five months‚ Columbus explored the Caribbean Sea‚ Specifically the

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    Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in the republic of Genoa‚ Italy. Christopher Columbus sought to find a way to the Indies to find gold and spice. After receiving significant funding from Queen Elizabeth and King Ferdinand‚ he set sail on August 3‚ 1492 with three ships‚ the Pinta‚ Nina‚ and Santa Maria‚ with 104 men. The voyage he took to find gold and spice led him not to Asia but to the discovery of America which wasn’t the place he expected to arrive at. Christopher Columbus is responsible

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    Actually‚ it wasn’t even close to being like it. During this course‚ I found out that many of our historical figures weren’t what they were portrayed to be. First of all‚ Columbus wasn’t even the first person to discover America. There was in fact other explorers that had discovered the new world‚ but unlike Columbus didn’t claim it. Columbus also wasn’t as

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    Christopher Columbus was a determined individual who was passionate about finding a western route to Asia. We know that Asia was the pearl of trade and the traditional route posed a threat of piracy and other situations. Columbus had to know finding that route would make him famous and rich beyond his imagination. To make a mistake wasn’t an option and he wasn’t going to prepare for any mistakes. I feel he had a one track mind and wasn’t open to any other options. His Repuation lied in the hands

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