Name: Dan Kenneth Abellar Course: BSTrM The Battle of Mactan INTRODUCTION: A pleasant morning to all of you tourists! I am Dan Kenneth Abellar‚ you can call me ’Ken’ for short.I am studying at Colegio de San Antonio de Padua taking up Bachelor of Science in Travel Management. I am your tourguide for today and I’ll be explaining to all of you a brief history about how the Battle of Mactan started. HISTORY: It was on April 7‚1521 when the three remaining galleons under the command of
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The Battle of Megiddo is the first battle that was recorded in detail and for posterity. Pharaoh Thutmose III’s military scribe inscribed it in hieroglyphs at Thutmose’s temple at Karnak‚ Thebes (now Luxor). Not only is this the first extant‚ detailed battle description‚ but it is the first written reference to the religiously important Megiddo: Megiddo is also known as Armageddon. Historically‚ Megiddo was an important city because it overlooked the route from Egypt through Syria to Mesopotamia
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The Battle of Dunkirk – Triumph or Failure? Was the battle of Dunkirk a triumph or a failure? Historians are polarised over the matter of the mass evacuation of English‚ French‚ Dutch and Belgian soldiers between 25th May and June 4th 1940. Multi – nationality soldiers were trapped between the German forces‚ and the English Channel‚ evacuation was decided upon as the soldiers were just not strong enough‚ or ready to fight. The port of Calais had been destroyed by the invading German army‚ leaving
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Chapter 3 In chapter 3 Jared Diamond discusses one of the most controversial battles that shifted the new world to what we know today‚ the Battle of Cajamarca. Diamond states in his book “The biggest population shift of modern times has been the colonization of the new World by Europeans‚ and the resulting conquest‚ numerical reduction‚ or complete disappearance of most groups of Native Americans.” This battle was between the Incas and the Spaniards. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a
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Battle of the Ideas: A review of economic concepts ECON-101 Amara Henderson-Graham Grandview University Professor David W. Hannum October 9th‚ 2012 Commanding Heights: Battle of Ideas The neoclassical counterrevolution was a response to the interventionist dependence revolution of the 1970’s which has diagnosed the problem of underdevelopment to be due to the predatory behavior of the developed world. The neoliberal school of thought redefined underdevelopment instead to
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Why I chose this topic: I chose to write about the Battle of Thermopylae because I have heard so much about it‚ but have never really thought much about it. For example‚ the movie 300‚ this movie was a giant hit‚ I saw it‚ thought it was amazing‚ but never really thought about how that actually happened. It is fascinating to think that only 300 men could withstand thousands of Persian soldiers. I also chose this topic because war and war tactics have always interested me‚ as it does for most male
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MCI Takeover Battle: Case analysis questions 1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Verizon‚ MCI‚ and Qwest? Where are the synergies in the proposed combination? 2. Evaluate the two offers in Exhibit 7. What explains the two structures? In each case‚ what is the value to MCI shareholders? 3. Merger arbitrage (or risk arbitrage) funds speculate on the completion of stock and cash mergers‚ typically buying the target and hedging the risk of the acquirer’s shares accordingly to exchange ratio
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The short story Battle Royal from the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is from the perspective of an African American man. The main character has a struggle of whether to be himself or to conform to be the black child that white men want him to be. He was immensely affected by the words uttered at his grandfather’s death bed. He said “Son‚ after I’m gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you‚ but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days‚ a spy in the enemy’s
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relentless. America is Beautiful. My home is steady and unbroken‚ and nothing can take that away from me. The Battle of Lexington was on April 19‚ 1775. The first battle and our first attempt at revolting. Before the Battle of Lexington‚ the British had signed many documents with-holding some of our freedoms. When they tried to suppress our rights to hold arms‚ that tipped the scale and the battle of Lexington occurred. When the British were marching‚ Paul Revere and the other riders signaled the minute
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April 1‚ 1945-June 21‚ 1945 Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II‚ the Okinawa campaign involved the 287‚000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130‚000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. At stake were air bases vital to the projected invasion of Japan. Japanese forces changed their typical tactics of resisting at the water’s edge to a defense in depth‚ designed to gain time. In conjunction with this‚ the Japanese navy and army mounted mass air attacks by planes
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