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chosen to be by someone else. Marco polo was born in Venice‚ Italy around 1254. He was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China. He became famous for his book that told the story of his travels along the Silk Road to China. When he was 17 he travelled to China with his uncle and father‚ for a total of 24 years. In 1298‚ there was a conflict between Venice and Genoa. Marco Polo was captured by the Genoese and imprisoned by them. While in jail‚ Marco told the story of his travels
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stops. They talked and exchanged ideas‚ goods‚ and metals. Marco Polo was a famous traveller that used the Silk Road. He took notes and published what he saw. Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. At age 17‚ Marco Polo travelled to China with his father and his uncle on the Silk Road. Along the trip Marco Polo took notes and kept a journal. Marco Polo was attracted and loved the jade stone. They met the emperor Kublai Khan in China. Marco Polo‚ his father‚ and his uncle served in Kublai Khan court for
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Capabilities Capabilities are valuable‚ rare‚ costly to imitate and non substitutable are core competencies. Core competencies are sources of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. A sustained competitive advantage is achieved only when the competitors cannot duplicate the benefits of a firm’s strategy or when they lack the resources to attempt imitation. Sustainable competitive advantage results only when all four criteria are satisfied. For a capability to be a core competence
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2.0 STUDY OF RELATED LITERATURES 2.1 FOREIGN STUDY 2.1.1 Hotel Swiss-Garden Kuala Lumpur The official website for Hotel Swiss-Garden is http://www.swissgarden.net/. The main functions of Hotel Swiss-Garden online reservation system are to provide hotel information and online room reservation. Visitors can get hotel information such as location of hotel‚ room rates‚ room description and hotel facilities. The reservation process required quest to fill their detail in reservation form. Reservation
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During the year of 1937‚ Japan officially launched their official full-scale invasion of China. On July 7‚ 1937‚ the Marco Polo Bridge Incident marked the beginning of the second Sino-Japanese War. This incident took place when during a Japanese field exercise in Beijing when a Japanese commander found that a soldier went missing and believed that the Chinese had kidnapped
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empires‚ and countries. It gave Europe an economic boost and a share of ideas from everywhere else. One example of things from other nations is Marco Polo’s book‚ The Travels of Marco Polo. According to the article in https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/big-history-project/expansion-interconnection/exploration-interconnection/a/marco-polo‚ “...[Marco Polo] found Mongolian customs fascinating and reported them enthusiastically‚ such as the use of paper for money and the burning of coal for heat
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Venice doesn’t have a capital being that is a city. Attractions Grand Canal St. Mary of the Friars Lagune von Venedig Marco Polo Marco Polo was born in 1254‚ in Venice and he was a famous explorer from Italy of the Roman Catholic religion and brought back important information from a significant amount of European countries and wrote a book about his travels. Polo died in 1324. Venetian Culture Venice is known for it’s infamous masquerade balls that were once year round‚ but a new law
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the American economy. Europe’s involvement of America’s economy can be dated as far back as Marco Polo’s expedition to China. In 1323‚ Marco Polo voyaged to China‚ a country that was obscure to the majority of Europeans. Polo depicted China to be “abound with ginger‚ silk‚ and fowl” and also stated that “there [was] vast abundance of silk and much trade” (Marco Polo‚ Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo‚ ).Europe‚ ready to explore the new land and new resource of wealth‚ decided to establish thriving
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Zayn El Hajji First Year Writing Professor Bodenrader The Replication of Everything Replication‚ reproduction‚ repetition‚ it is all the same in the end. Postmodernism was defined by its use of replication and reproduction to show the dehumanization of the mass production capitalistic world. David Foster Wallace writes in the book A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll never do again “The apotheosis of the pop in postwar art marked a whole new marriage between high and low culture. For the artistic
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