expeditions to their investors. Popular opinion was important if an explorer was to be recognized and financially supported by one of the many businesses that stuck their hands into Canada. To achieve this the explorers kept detailed‚ and often highly exaggerated‚ journals. We read these now in the form of letters home‚ physical journal entries‚ fabricated stories by writers employed to puff the reputation of a particular explorer‚
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Jacques Marquette Jacques Marquette was a fifteenth century Jesuit explorer whose most revered goals were to find the Mississippi River in the New World and convert Indians along the way. As a young boy in France‚ he had already started his Jesuit training in Jesuit University in Reims. Marquette’s childhood wish was to become a missionary and spread Christianity. In 1666‚ Marquette’s wish was granted by King Louis XIV‚ who was eager to expand French territory to the New World. At the same
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Curse Of the Pharaohs Around about 1333 BC a young child who went by the name of “Tut”‚ became the king of Egypt at only the age of nine years old. He had lost both of his parents had passed away when he was only at the age of five. He had not a single person to ask for help. When he turned ten years old‚ King Tut made a decision that he should finally take a stance as a king. Around 1336 BC King Tut passed away of an unknown sickness‚ his tomb was placed by the other pharaohs and tombs‚ since he
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Visualize with Rational Software Architect Create and transform a UML 2.0 model into code Skill Level: Introductory Eric Long (elong@us.ibm.com) Software Engineer IBM 21 Mar 2006 Rational Software Architect virtually teems with visual tools to handle a number of development tasks. Of most interest to developers are UML modeling‚ design patterns‚ and UML-to-code transformations. After completing this tutorial‚ you will know how to create a UML model‚ apply a design pattern to that model‚ and
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new economic opportunities Who? • Explorers • Religious officials (Catholic and Christian) • Quakers • Puritans • English families • Pilgrim Separatists • Job-less people • Well-educated people (pillars) • Women without rights Other • New England had poor rocky soil for farming
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XBee explorer USB is easy to use. USB to serial base unit for XBee Pro S1 line. Plug the unit into the XBee Explorer‚ attach a mini USB cable‚ and will have direct access to the serial and programming pins on the XBee Pro S1 unit. The highlight of this board is an FT231 USB-to-Serial converter. In this way translates
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products were introduced to Europe as a result of exploration. For example‚ spices from India were in high demand in Europe which drove explorers to find faster and more efficient ways to transport goods from India. Explorers traveled great distances around the southern tip of Africa to reach the plentiful lands in East Asia. Marco Polo was the first major explorer to attempt to reach the Far East and find new trading routs. Polo was a Venetian who did his exploration of India and China in the late
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can last up to 6-8 minutes under water‚ so hunting for food is easy. Their forefeet are helpful because they use them to capture their food and “Their hind feet says wildlife explorer states‚ “Are used for swimming.” “Their eyes stay shut for 40 days after birth‚” states the wildlife explorer. According to the wildlife explorer‚ “Their number of young is 1-6 but usually 1-2.” One of the most interesting facts is that if several otters are swimming in one straight line with their backs out of the water
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suffer for their own good. They took over other peoples‚ sometimes forcing them to convert to Christianity while spreading their own territory. The original motives for exploration were wealth‚ power‚ religion‚ and a want to test human ability. Explorers wanted to find things like spices and gold in new places to make them rich and wanted to claim more territory for their country. They also wanted to spread christianity
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