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    Tashunti Frazier 3/7/2018 CHUM 230 – Humanities – Pre- Columbus through Emancipation Quiz MR. Miles Part 1: 50 points. Identifications: IN YOUR OWN WORDS‚ be able to identify and describe the historical significance of the following. Be sure you can answer the key historical questions‚ who‚ what‚ where‚ when‚ and why it’s important to history—if necessary. 1. The Nile Valley and the “Emperor of the World”: The Nile valley is a stream that streams north. Known to be the longest stream

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    Make observations about the course calendar. This course explores human history within the true story of the whole world. The course looks at the positives and negatives of different historical events‚ and tries to take a look at the events from different views. It answers questions such as what it means to be a Christian and the fundamentals of the Christian church as it undergoes radical changes in the sixteenth century. As Europeans discover ancient civilizations in the Americas‚ empires appear

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    Christopher Columbus’ Letter of Discovery rose‚ very quickly‚ to the top of European publishing in 1493. His letter spread the news of his voyage‚ in which Columbus claims to have discovered and captured multiple islands in the Indian Ocean in Asia. Obviously‚ Columbus was way off in his topography and actually landed in what we know now as Haiti/the Dominican Republic and Cuba. While exaggerating size and wealth‚ he also claimed‚ wrongly‚ that China was nearby. In the letter‚ Columbus is essentially

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    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light‚ not our darkness that most frightens us”. After watching The Village and reading “By the waters of Babylon” and “The Walking Dead” it is obvious that their society became a victim of itself and that using fear to control people is not acceptable. In the stories‚ there were many similarities such as all the main characters went to places that were forbidden‚ an apocalypse occurs

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    3) What lessons can the bank learn from its online banking operations? What are the costs and benefits of having customers migrate to online banking? When the Bank of America (BOA) launched it mobile banking platform in May 2007‚ it enhanced service options to its customers by creating smartphone applications (apps) which allowed customers to access account information and make transactions remotely and on the move without having to visit a BOA branch‚ ATM or even having to have access to a computer

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    Columbus and de la Casas make two very different observations of the new world. Columbus made many detailed descriptions in his letter to the King Ferdinand‚ who had financed his journey with the intentions of completing three very clear goals. The first‚ “to procure riches for the Spanish empire‚” the second‚ “to find a new route to the East Indies‚” and lastly‚ “to convert native peoples to Christianity (Casper et al.‚ 4).” de la Casas had a much different intention than Columbus for why he journeyed

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    Christopher Columbus was on his fourth voyage and he was looking for a way to China. That’s when he came across the country named Panama‚ which stretches only 60 miles‚ where he found Indians who had tons of gold. But he was looking for a way to China so he sent his brother Bartholomew to search for more gold. At first Indians were willing to lead the Spaniards to the gold‚ but eventually they got tired and led the Spanish back to the coast. When the Indians did this they were abused. Eventually

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    The history of the Native Americans didn’t start when Columbus bumped into the Americas‚ “… it began when their ancestors fell from the sky‚ emerged from under the earth‚ were transformed from ash trees into people‚ entered the world through a hollow log…” (pg. 14). Many people who don’t know any better‚ or just don’t research‚ still believe that before any outsiders came‚ that Natives lived horrible lives; never had enough food‚ weren’t that intelligent‚ and had no concept of “civilized life.” Of

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    How to pass college being an illiterate "I come out of school. I was sixteen. They had their meetings. The directors meet. They said I was wasting their school paper. I was wasting pencils(kozol)." The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society by Jonathon Kozol explains the everyday struggles of an illiterate person. He includes heartbreaking real life situations‚ such as stating how illiterates cannot read a menu or labels on food items. In this generation‚ money holds a great power over students‚ especially

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    This book is the complex journey back in time to 1940’s Cairo‚ in a little dead end alley where not much happens and community is very important. The story mostly details the lives of Abbas‚ Hussain Kirsha‚ and Hamida as they break away from the community and each end up in some sort of trouble. Naguib Mahfouz clearly illustrates in this novel that relationships such as inter-community relations‚ like marriage and religion are becoming less important due to the British imperialism. The results of

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