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    Spanish armada

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    why did the spanish armada fail? The Spanish Armada failed for a number of reasons here are some of the reasons. English ships had better artillery because Spanish cannons could only fire once an hour while the English cannons can fire every three minutes. Also the Spanish didn’t have enough trained gunners to use the cannons so they had to use normal soilders to control the cannons. The English had smaller and faster ships so they can easily weave in and out of the Spanish ships. While the

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    Spanish Oral

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    friends and we seen a stupendious film there. In the evening we played football for 3 hours and then we took something in a café. And what about Sunday? Did you do anything interesting? On Sunday I walked my dog and I did the homework and I studied Spanish and sciences. It was boring! Wasn’t it? I stayed in my house all day and I got an early night. Q5) Is there much unemployment in

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    Learning Spanish

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    For a few years now‚ it has been a personal goal of mines to become bi-lingual in a foreign language. Learning Spanish is the language that I always wanted to learn. In the past when I took lessons in High School‚ after passing Spanish 101 class‚ I had no intentions of registering to take Spanish 102. Continuing to take lessons was not on the top of my list as a teenager. I did not put any value in learning a second language. But as I became of age and traveled to Spain while enlisted in the military

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    Portuguese Fiscal Policy Assessment Abstract: This work tries to do an overview of the Portuguese Fiscal situation ex-post the 2008 financial crisis. There is a short description of the GDP evolution and how it affected fiscal revenues and expenditures: revenues decreased with the crisis and then got up with taxes increasing and expenditures add an upward trend (from 2008-2010‚ for 2011 everything is projected). Moreover‚ we compute four types of fiscal balances (total‚ primary‚ adjusted from

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    Cycles of Conquest‚ by Edward H. Spicer‚ is notably a classic‚ “essential” book for readers learning about the history of cultural change in the southwest. Published in 1962‚ Spicer’s work offers a scope of the histories of southwestern Native Americans—based on available knowledge. Edward Spicer introduces the first part of his book by stating several times that the historical lens is distorted because it is the history of the Spanish and their contacts with Native Americans‚ rather than the history

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    Spanish Period

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    Spanish Period The Spanish Period (1565-1898) was believed to have started during the time of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi‚ the first Governor-General in the Philippines. He was responsible for establishing peace with various indigenous tribes. During his time‚ many changes happened to the Filipinos. Literature‚ religion‚ lifestyles‚ societal classes and the like was taken into the Philippines. Regarding Philippine literature‚ the Spaniards have exerted a strong influence using their own literature

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    Spanish Worldview

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    Knowledge This category is telling you a little bit about the knowledge part of worldview for the Spanish. The first artifact is a torture tool from the Spanish inquisition or the reconquista the torture tool I am using is the rack the Spanish were really knowledgeable when it came to this. The rack consists of a rectangular‚ wooden frame‚ slightly raised from the ground‚ with a roller at one‚ or both‚ ends‚ at one end a fixed bar to which the legs are fastened‚ and at the other a movable bar to

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    Spanish Observation

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    was asked to do a 1:1 with a child that only speak spanish in the school that I have visited twice. When I got there the child was sitting in the classroom couch watching the ceiling with another of the child in the classroom. I was instructed to assist the child to work in their homework‚ however the child replied no I don’t want to do anything (in spanish). The child was playing with one of the Ipads in the classroom. I asked the child (in spanish) when he wants to do homework or a least try to

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    Spanish Influence on the Tainos Numerous individuals know how Columbus As a collective group of individuals‚ we learn of those who have lived before us – from the discovery of the West Indies to the interaction of the natives and colonist. However‚ even when the colonists have discovered these lands‚ it has been unclear as to which group of natives has been affected the most due to the arrival of the Spanish. As historians and their books have recorded‚ Columbus “discovered” the West Indies

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    The health systems are becoming broader and more complex and healthcare expenditure has never been so high‚ consuming an increased part of the national income‚ more than 10% of GDP. In the last decade‚ medicines spending had a particular growth‚ having contributed decisively to the rise of total health expenditure. In order to contain medicines expenditure several policies have been introduced in Portugal. The subsidiary objectives have been the promotion of the usage of generic medicines and the

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