James Cook was born on October 27‚ 1728 in Marton‚ (near modern Middlesborough)‚ Yorkshire‚ Britain. Cook commanded three voyages of discovery for Great Britain‚ and sailed around the world twice. He was the first British ship commander to circumnavigate the globe in a lone ship. Cook was also the first British commander to prevent the outbreak of scurvy by regulating his crew’s diet‚ serving them citrus fruit and sauerkraut to prevent the disease. He is considered one of the world’s greatest explorers
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* Which among the following states have topped India Human Development Report 2011- Kerala * Which among the following is India‘s Permanent Representative to the United Nations? Hardeep Singh Puri * Name the e-mail prioritizer bought by Facebook? MailRank * director appointed by Apple recently Iger * debut appearance in 2012 Abu Dhabi’s Golf Championship? Tiger woods * country is set to donate used laptop for charity?Dubai-campaign name tadweer * total sms limit per day raised
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Samuel De Champlain: The land and People Do you ever feel like people should be banned from saying certain things? American Literature is unique in its own way because of freedom of speech and press given to the American people by The United States Constitution. The American people therefore‚ get to share their true beliefs about the land and other human beings as shown in a lot of Samuel De Champlain’s works. Samuel De Champlain was a French explorer and was born in 1574 in Brouage. He started
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In his letter‚ eighteenth century writer‚ Samuel Johnson constructs his rejection of a woman seeking his assistance in convincing the archbishop of Canterbury to admission to a university. Formal and detached‚ Johnson conveys his unwillingness to fulfill the mother’s request through the implementation of definition‚ tone shift‚ and logical appeal. Samuel Johnson pursues a sensitive approach and begins his letter by addressing the mother’s hopeful feelings‚ defining them as “the chief happiness
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a strong‚ authoritative argument‚ the best thing to do is read author Samuel Johnson’s (the most fascinating‚ distinguished poet and lexicographer) response from the excerpt “Debtor’s Prison.” The publication of the letter is concerns referring to people being sent to prison for not paying their debt. It is said‚ “an enquiry is made by which it appears that more than twenty thousand are at this time prisoners for debt‚” (Samuel Johnson) (Lines 3-5). Most people would agree with the fact that no one
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The Right Way to Manage an Intervention Mayas Masri 1207021986 Dr. Philip Tabakow Engl102-E 1765 words I pledge that this is my own work. The Right Way to Manage an Intervention For 42 years‚ Libyans had suffered from the tyrannical dictator Muammar Gaddafi who ruled them without any mercy and allocated Libya’s wealth to his family and himself. On Tuesday 15th of February 2011‚ Libyans started to demonstrate against the regime of Gaddafi. However‚ Gaddafi’s response to
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London: A Poem" was published anonymously in 1738‚ and was immediately popular‚ perhaps because‚ unlike the later "The Vanity of Human Wishes‚" it is fairly easy to read: Alexander Pope praised it‚ and the impoverished Johnson received ten guineas from Edward Cave‚ the publisher‚ for the copyright. It is‚ the author states‚ a poem written "In imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal." The Third Satire is a poem about the decay of ancient Rome and the decadence which the poet found there: how closely
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Valerie Hennessy Bailey Junior High 7th January 15‚ 2017 Samuel Maverick Samuel Maverick... What a simple name! Well‚ It’s not as simple as it seems.Samuel’s life was full of activity and he is an important part of the history books we read today. Samuel was born on July 23 1803 in South Carolina. His father‚ Samuel‚ and mother ‚Elizabeth‚ loved him very much. As a boy in his primary years‚ he primarily lived in Charleston. In 1810 his family moved to Pendleton here his father established a
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The Hispanic Challenge According to Samuel P. Huntington‚ Mexicans and Hispanics are threats to American culture because the Anglo-Protestant culture is what originally started the United States of America‚ not Hispanics. Samuel believes the United States identity is being challenged by the large-scale of Mexican immigration‚ bilingualism‚ and failure to assimilate. Samuel argues that the contiguity encourages immigration and that it has steadily been increasing. The number of immigrants coming
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commit that read‚ “The book of Samuel is full of many intriguing and revering individual stories. But this very fact‚ which makes reading Samuel so interesting‚ can also cause you to miss some significant things with regard to the bigger picture of the story of Israel.” pretty much breaks it down for me. I read the assigned reading several times and each time I pin pointed something that I missed the time before. In the reading I learned that the book of Samuel
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