From 1403 to about 1492 China participated in numerous voyages led by Zheng He‚ the leader of their maritime operations‚ including the visiting of 37 countries and traveling through the Atlantic Ocean around the tip of Africa and beyond Europe (pg 202). Countries such as Ceylon‚ India‚ and the Persian Gulf were a few of their stops along the way. These voyages proved that China was the supreme world sea power whose shipbuilding techniques and navigational abilities were unmatched by any other nation
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1st Year M.Com Master of Commerce (M.Com.) 1st Year ASSIGNMENTS 2010-11 School of Management Studies Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi-110 068 1 Master of Commerce M.Com.‚ 1st Year ASSIGNMENT − 2010-11 Dear Students‚ As explained in the Programme Guide‚ you have to do one Tutor Marked Assignment in each Course. We are sending the assignments of all the six courses together in this booklet. Assignment is given 30% weightage in the final assessment.
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Compare and Contrasting Plants and Animals Man has come a long way from the caveman days and so has our understanding of the world around us. Humans have always used plants and animals in one capacity or another‚ yet when a person thinks of the phrase ’plants and animals’‚ they automatically begin thinking about the differences between the two. Well I say that plants and animals have been known far too long for their differences. And as different as they seem‚ plants and animals are very
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The case of the man taping basketball girls case in Waseca County took place in February 23‚ 2012. In this case‚ two men noticed a 58-year-old man was video taping West High School girls playing basketball game and the man was accused of filming a particular girl player in the basketball team. The girl’s father confronted the man with the camera but the man appeared to be nervous and he stuttered. Later on‚ the man was brought into West activities director Ken Essay’s office and the man said that
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WorldCom: internal audit lessons to be learnt On June 9 2003‚ the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York issued a report on the WorldCom accounting fraud that expands on the court’s earlier findings of mismanagement‚ lack of corporate governance‚ and concern regarding the integrity of the company’s accounting and financial reporting functions. Supervised by former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh‚ the study was commissioned by the court to investigate allegations including fraud‚ mismanagement
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Exam Notes Basic APA Style • In text o (Hill‚2013) quotation (Hill‚ 2013.p.145) Critical: Takes time and implies careful attention looking below the surface to find the motivation and context as well as what assumptions are involved and what is not there. Criticism: • A close analysis of a text resulting in evaluation. o A close analysis and judgment of something • Not always negative‚ you can evaluate a text and be positive. o Involves both positive negative or even neutral feedback
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still many disadvantages such as limited point of sale. It is argue that most fair trade goods are sold at specialized shops and still little of them make their way to maintain distribution chains. Also‚ some traders offer the possibility of on-line shopping‚ which may be handy if you live far from any world shop. As far as I’m concerned‚ in spite of these disadvantages for fair trade‚ we should keep the most optimistic view on it in order to help developing countries. This debate will undoubtedly
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WHAT IS ONLINE MARKETPLACE? The online payment marketplace is experiencing an explosion of innovative ideas‚ plans‚ and announcements‚ which one commentator has likened to a “goat rodeo”‚ a chaotic situation in which powerful players with different agendas compete with one another for public acceptance‚ and above all‚ huge potential revenues. Others liken the payment marketplace to a battle among the four platform titans Apple‚ Google‚ Facebook‚ and Amazon. Each of these titans have their
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1.) What is the role of centralized government in Chinese history? Why is the Dynastic cycle a critical component of Chinese society? China had a large population. A strong centralized government was needed to keep order. With a strong government China was able to expand its population. The dynastic cycle was a critical component of Chinese society because once one dynasty grew weak; a new dynasty could come in and start fresh to fix the issues. The new dynasty would start out strong and develop
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Online Portals The term online refers to the Internet and the web pages that form part of the World Wide Web. An online portal is a website that provides an entry point for a range of information‚ tools‚ and links Website can be defined as it is a structure the access to information found on the Internet. People assume that the web portal has been around since the invention of the Internet that is not the case; Late-1990s many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to have a piece of
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