Leeba Freund Mrs. Cohen Jewish History December 17‚ 2010 Sephardic Jewish Pirates & the Caribbean Connection If you plan on touring the island of Jamaica‚ you may be interested in visiting the oldest Jewish cemetery‚ Hunt’s Bay cemetery‚ near Kingston. Kingston has a Jewish community dating back to the 1600s. What you will find in this cemetery may astonish you: typical Jewish gravestones with a Hebrew inscription. But that is not the unusual part; in the corner of some gravestones
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century‚ big groups of Portuguese came to work in sugar plantations because they were recruited by the Hawaiian government and the Planters’ Society. Also‚ a doctor living in Portugal named Dr. William Hillebrand‚ promoted jobs in Hawai’i and organized the first immigrants that came. There are over 20‚ 000 Portuguese immigrants
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country in Europe. The countries most interesting border feature is that is has over double the amount of coastline compared to land borders with 3‚084 mi of the country on the water. The country shares its land borders with France to the Northwest and Portugal to the southwest. The climate of Spain is varied as a result of its position above the equator‚ between 36 and 43 degrees North latitude‚ create a wet Spain in the North with mountainous areas‚ with temperatures that average with an average annual
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Cape Verde Short introduction of the country as a tourism destination o History and tourism development o The current tourism industry o Facts and figures Analysis of the sustainability development in all its aspects o Definition and Outlines of your investigation o Issues o Solutions Conclusion and outlook Introduction: Many destinations have beautiful surroundings but rarely are they untouched and diverse as the islands of Cape Verde‚ Cape Verde is a volcanic archipelago made
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Cape Verde | “Most Improved Country” | Introduction Cape Verde is a small country that spans ten islands and is 570 kilometers off the coast of Western Africa. There is very little rainfall per year and the land on most of the islands are of volcanic origin. On several of the islands the land is fairly flat‚ sandy and dry‚ whereas the rest of the islands are covered in rocky land. It‚ therefore‚ lacks in natural resources and has experienced severe droughts. Agriculture is made difficult by
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COUNTRY | GOALS | KEY LOCATIONS | GOODS TRADED | CHALLENGES | SUCCESSES | RESULTS | Portugal | Aimed to control commerce by force of arms rather economic competition. | Indian Ocean Commerce | spices | Goods were crude and unattractive in Asian markets. | Military advantage enabled the Portuguese to establish fortified bases in the Indian Ocean world. | Created “trading post empire”. They became heavily involved in carrying Asian ports‚ selling their shipping services because they were unable
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primarily from Japan and South Korea‚ who have not yet learned Portuguese. The principal families of Indian languages are Tupí‚ Arawak‚ Carib‚ and Gê. There is about as much difference between the Portuguese spoken in Brazil and that spoken in Portugal as between the English spoken in the United States and that spoken in the United Kingdom. Within Brazil‚ there are no dialects of Portuguese‚ but only moderate regional variation in accent‚ vocabulary‚ and use of personal nouns‚ pronouns‚ and verb
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Important things about Portugal that a Briton should know - preferably before arriving. Nuno Severiano Teixeira - Ultimatum Ingles 1990 https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fanalisesocial.ics.ul.pt%2Fdocumentos%2F1223027734K4zTZ2wh1Lu94TC4.pdf&ei=ZLLOUuqhBaKQ0AXK0IH4Bg&usg=AFQjCNFdoWO3uAXFCr9xLDWlpwMx-oH2XQ&bvm=bv.59026428‚d.d2k. Before / if coming here it would be useful if a Brit had an understanding of basic Portuguese
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until the Europeans arrived. The crusading and conquering mentality didn’t arrive overnight. It was a gradual process that came about through conquests of the people who would later become the conquerors. It began with the conquest of Spain and Portugal by the Moors. The moors were violent in their take over but eventually were better for the area with all the improvements and possibilities that they brought along with them. When the Christian reconquest recurs however‚ we start to see the trends
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Compared to several other countries‚ including the United States‚ Portugal has taken a very liberal approach to addressing the drug problem in their country. In the early 2000’s‚ Portugal moved to decriminalize all possession and use of drugs ranging from marijuana to heroin and cocaine. A lot of good has resulted from Portugal’s progressive drug policy. At first‚ many were skeptical about whether or not this new policy would work‚ or if it would actually exacerbate the drug problem. People also
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