MAGELLAN’S EXPEDITION WHO: Ferdinand Magellan‚ a Portuguese maritime explorer‚ was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe and cross the Pacific Ocean on his famous voyage in search of a westward route to the Moluccas (now Melaka). This is one of the greatest Portuguese explorers to ever sail the ocean. Ferdinand Magellan was born in about 1480 in Sabrosa of a noble family‚ and he spent his years as a court page. He ran errands and helped out with general chores but he was still looking for
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Brutus: Nobility Marred by a Tragic Flaw After reading The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare‚ some readers interpret Julius Caesar as the tragic hero of the play. However‚ Brutus is the real tragic hero. A tragic hero is a character that is virtuous‚ but makes crucial errors in judgment or possesses a tragic flaw that leads to their downfall. The tragic flaw that mars Brutus is his rigid sense of moral and political principles. Unlike Caesar‚ Brutus was able to separate his public
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Spreadsheet Software Level 2 (Credit value 4) Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference • Then‚ go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it
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British imperialism on India had many positive and negative affects on both the mother country‚ Britain and the colony‚ India. Many people would argue which effects were more prominent in these countries and some would agree that they were equal. But in both cases there were actually both. In India the British colonization had more positive affects than negative. For Instance‚ When the British colonized India they built 40‚000 miles of railroad and 70‚000 miles of paved roadway. As a result the
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nationalists and historians. The main strands of debates on the nature of the revolt of 1857 can be understood by four main questions. The first question is Was it merely a sepoy mutiny or a civil rebellion The more dominant contemporary official interpretation of the revolt of 1857 was that it was primarily a sepoy mutiny‚ the civil unrest being a secondary phenomenon‚ which happened
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impressing of men from merchant ships‚ as Melville demonstrates. Actual events that occurred in April and May of 1797 were the Spithead and Nore Mutinies‚ these incidents were offset by the despicable onboard conditions‚ the severe punishments and increasingly sparse pay while at sea. The pitying British government met the demands of the sailors at the Spithead mutiny; however‚ the mutinous sailors at the Nore were not so easily won over. Richard Parker was the ringleader behind the plan to not succumb to
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La Amistad In 1839‚ Africans being carried from Havana‚ Cuba‚ to Puerto Principe‚ Cuba‚ revolted against their captors aboard the ship La Amistad (Spanish for ’friendship’). They were stolen from Africa‚ transported to the Americas‚ and were “passed off” as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt‚ the Africans demanded to be returned home‚ but the ship’s navigator lied to them about their course‚ and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island‚ New York. The schooner was subsequently
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To say that I find a great interest in American history would be greatly falsified. However‚ when it comes to slavery it keeps me much more interested than anything else‚ at the edge of my seat almost. To know what our ancestors may have went through and sacrificed for us to have better lives today even if it wasn’t by choice. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is an epitome source of one of the obstacles that African-American slaves had to face. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated that in which
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The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography
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It had been illegal to import slaves in the United States since 1808. The Amistad Case was argued in the Supreme Court in The United States from February 22nd until March 2‚ 1841(Jones). The first Amistad trial was concerned with charges of murder‚ mutiny‚ and piracy of the Africans aboard the Amistad (Jones). The first trial was no surprises. The court ruled they had no jurisdiction‚ because the claims happened in Spanish waters (Owens) The second Amistad trial was the civil case that was
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