My name is Pan Tianqi‚ currently a first-year student doing a Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. I am writing to express my intention to apply for a place in the Globex Julmester Programme. I have a great passion for exploring and creating. I joined IT interest group in junior high school and chemistry interest group in senior high school working together with like-minded friends to find out the scientific explanations of daily life. The complex but symmetric and beautiful structures
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The United States during the early decades of the nineteenth century sought to reform the United Staes and expand democratic ideas. There were many major reform movements that looked to expand democratic ideas‚ which include: establishing free (tax supported) schools‚ improving the treatment of the mentally ill‚ controlling or abolishing the sale of alcohol‚ gaining equal rights for women‚ and abolishing slavery. The reformers went out to “reform” the time period to greater the democratic ideals
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skull and only stop at the opponent’s teeth.¨ No matter what protection Samurais had they could not stop the knight blade that can go through their skull even with a helmet. A piece of evidence that supports my claim is in document D written by the DBQ project. It says ¨The helmet bowl was made of 8 to 12 iron plates‚ and below it was a 5 piece neck guard.¨ The 8 or 12 iron plates could possibly ¨block¨ the sword of a knight. But something to focus on is the Knight’s armor was usually 40 to 60 pounds
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DBQ: The European Age of Exploration The European Age of Exploration was caused by the want for Asian goods‚ a fear of the Ottoman Empire‚ and to convert more people to Christianity. Accomplishments by the Europeans include gaining wealth‚ power‚ land‚ and knowledge‚ leading to the European Golden Age. The events that followed Vasco da Gama reaching India‚ and Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas‚ would not only change Europe‚ but would also lead to globalization. As the Ottoman Empire
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e effect of Saint Domingue’s decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets‚ from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic
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Silver DBQ Essay The global flow of silver from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century had vast effects both socially and economically around the world. By this time an interregional trade network had been clearly established and world trade was booming. When China‚ a prominent trade nation‚ accepted silver as its currency and would only exchange for it‚ the importance of silver increased. This new rapid scramble for silver proved to be both beneficial and disastrous. While
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Want for Labouring People: European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean‚ 1500-1850” - 02/27/2016 Richard Allen’s article replaces the “want for labouring people” or slaves in its context. The French‚ British and Dutch colonies of the Indian Ocean had a strong need for an inexpensive labor‚ especially since the local workforce was every expensive. The article also refutes common misconceptions about the slave trading in the Indian Ocean and shows that this slave trading was actually more significant
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In the Gale Encyclopedia‚ it entails‚ “The plight of Native Americans and African-American slaves‚ on the other hand‚ worsened.” (Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics) This article states that at the time‚ Indians and African Americans were getting into worse predicaments. But in the same article it states‚ “In the Northeast
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“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong‚ but in finding out the right and upholding it‚ wherever found against the wrong” (Theodore Roosevelt). To start off let’s talk about Hammurabi‚ a king not many people knew about. Thanks to clay writing tablets found by archaeologist‚ we know some things about him. Some things we know about Hammurabi is that he was a king for 42 years! In addition to that he was a king of a city-state in Mesopotamia called Babylon. Something else about
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“I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.”(Hilaire Belloc). This is very true because the Crusades did not have a lot of kid friendly material and were very violent. The army that lead the attack was filled with “ten of thousands of peasants‚ nobles‚ and clergy responded to Urban II’s call.”(The First Crusaders PowerPoint). Jerusalem was a holy ground for the Christians and was taken by the Muslims. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem‚ a bloodbath commenced with
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