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    Causes and Effects of Spanish Exploration and Colonization Spain played a critical part in the exploration and colonization of the Americas. At the heart of the Spanish exploration‚ was the desire to gain access to the spice and silk routes to increase their power and wealth. This would prove to be a venture with many obstacles but also many fortunous outcomes. The exploration opened the door to new trade‚ new people‚ and the future of the world. For many years‚ the Spaniards and the Portuguese

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    Pearl S. Buck - A Modern Day Hero Introduction A friend of mine gave me a copy of The Good Earth as a birthday gift. Until then‚ I had never heard of the literary masterpiece or the author‚ Pearl S. Buck. The story captivated me. I found myself engrossed in the story of the poor farmer Wang Lung whose love for his land allowed him to overcome many odds including famine‚ flood and a revolution. Through hard work and dedication‚ Wang Lung became one of the wealthiest landowners in the Anweih

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    Modern day heroes    As children we all had our favorite superheroes. We loved them‚ worshipped them‚  pretended to be them‚ dressed like them and even talked like them. Now that we’re adults‚  we are all too well aware that heroes are in high demand but can rarely be found. The  overwhelming ugliness found everywhere in the world today‚ has desensitized us to the  point where hardly anything seems shocking or repulsive anymore. Luckily we don’t need  superpowers or a cape to make a difference in the world

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    The myth I am doing my essay on is Prometheus. Prometheus is a Greek story‚ but the person who translated the story is Mary Shelley. Mary’s Frankenstein is the modern day version of Prometheus; he wants to give humans the power of technology that can lead to immortality. In the Greek myth‚ Prometheus wants to give humans fire. So they both want to give humans something that gods possess. Prometheus suffers by being chained to a rock for eternity and has his liver eaten everyday by an eagle. Frankenstein’s

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    Robert H. Goddard: Robert H. Goddard is the creator the first liquid-fueled rocket that has changed the usage and abilities of modern day spacecrafts. Although‚ he wasn’t respected during his engineering process‚ Goddard still strived to follow his dream of one day taking a rocket to the moon. ("Robert Goddard"‚ 2008). Robert H. Goddard invented the first liquid-fueled rocket‚ improving upon the previous basic space crafts‚ despite the extremely negative thoughts society had on his ideas as he started

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    The American period Of Colonization Flora;Aguinaldo’s Forces continued its attempts to capture Manila from the Spaniards. Throughout this time‚ American Leaders Forged an agreement with the Spaniards that the Americans latter will surrender to the Americans . The two conspired that a mock battle of Manila Bay will be staged to save the honor of the Spanish crown. This plan was aided by Aguinaldo’s permission to the American request to clear the pasay and Baclaran trenches to avoid any casualty

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    Use of Information Technology in Modern Day Business By Martin Nana Baffoe Pieterson In general‚ IT (Information Technology) has brought about significant improvements in Business operations and in the entire human life as whole. Talking about Globalization‚ IT has not only brought the world closer together‚ but it has allowed the world’s economy to become a single interdependent system. This means that we can not only share information quickly and efficiently‚ but we can also bring down barriers

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    European Colonization It was said in Romans 8:31 “If God is with us‚ who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” To any follower of Christ living in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe‚ the answer to this question was no one. Europe believed that God gave them superiority and aid in their conquests and colonization of both Native American and African land. The three key factors that secured Europe’s domination of the New World were their technological superiority

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    Throughout history and modern day texts and films‚ archetypes have been used to add significance and meaning to literature by allowing us to understand patterns of human behaviour. Looking at the archetype of the outsider‚ the reader speculates the outsider’s purpose to challenge the values and the assumed expectations of society; such as the actions of society to initiate change in the archetype? The “novel catcher in the rye” by jd Salinger‚ and the film “Gran Torino” by Clint eastwood both explore

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    My Modern-Day Cinderella Story P3 Language Arts It was pouring outside. Not just pouring‚ that word doesn’t suffice how much water was aimlessly falling from the sky and crashing to the ground with every footstep that Ella Kess took on her way home. Today was the day that seven years ago her parents died in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean. It was strange‚ how she had to live on after the death‚ but she pulled through with the help of her best friend Kylee Lainer. She would have been

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