you a little bit about myself and the year I was born. My name is Jack‚ 27 years old and I am extremely terrified right now. I was born in July 7th 1984. It seems like I am the oldest student in this class. As I am an international student‚ I grew up in Korea until 21 and went to a Korean army as a gunner and came to the U.S. I studied in Seattle for 3 years and moved to Corvallis three month ago. I am a senior student and majoring in Finance. That was pretty much about myself. Now‚ I am going
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“The face in the mirror was not mine! What was going on?” Andrea thought. Now let me explain to you how this all happened… Andrea’s morning started off like every other day. School went well‚ and the evenings with her mom‚ dad and 2 older sisters followed the same routine as every other Thursday night. “Tonight everything is going to change for me. At 11:11 pm my biggest dream will finally come true‚” Andrea thought as her wise father rambled on about what a colleague had said at lunch time. Her
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Before a king named Charlemagne came along and turned on the light switch‚ Europe was traped in a centuries- long dark age.Charlemagne was eventually named holy roman emperor in the 8th century. By encouraging arts‚ culture and education‚ the Frankish king drew the continent out of cultural stagnation that threatened to never end. Both a fierce warrior and in many ways the first Renaissance man‚ Charlemagne’s accomplishments on the battlefield and in his laws led to the first notion of a pan-European
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nagbagong-loob na taong makasalanan ang pangalang Magdalena "Who was Mary Magdalene?" Answer: Mary Magdalene was a woman from whom Jesus cast out seven demons (Luke 8:2). The name Magdalene likely indicates that she came from Magdala‚ a city on the southwest coast of the Sea of Galilee. After Jesus cast seven demons from her‚ she became one of His followers. Mary Magdalene has been associated with the "woman in the city who was a sinner" (Luke 7:37) who washed Jesus’ feet‚ but there is no scriptural
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Was Magellan Worth Saving? Magellan was not worth saving because his men did not respect him as a leader‚ he did not care for nor show a decent level of respect to his men‚ and he lost sight of the task of bringing spices back to Spain. In the late Middle Ages the craving for foreign spices grew in Europeans. The ‘spice islands’ where all of the desired spices were cultivated was in distant Asia‚ making them hard to get for the eastern continent of Europe (BE). Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480
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Hist. to 1876 Was the Civil War worth it? I believe that the civil war was worth it. Even though a lot of negative consequences came out of it‚ the positive outweighed the negative. The largest cause of the war was slavery. The North and South had contained their differences over slavery for sixty years after the Constitutional Convention. Compromise in 1787 had resolved the questions of slave trade and how to count slaves for congressional representation. The Compromise of 1850 was the last attempt
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him‚ was forced to take the long way around to avoid contact with enemies‚ but when he finally reached his destination was sent away by the king because he did not have the money to pay him. Ships were also an asset to Asian trading‚ carrying luxury items such as gold‚ tin and bronze; as well as glass beads informing us of trade in early Asia; specifically in the Intan shipwreck‚ we learned it was built from lash-lug method that allows the ship to end rather than break. Abraham bin Yuji‚ was a trader
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mid-1900s was the immense control it had over the economies and politics in Asia. Trade and production were tailored to serve colonial needs‚ and opposition to colonial rule was suppressed easily. In this context‚ claiming that colonialism was inevitable seems valid as Asian countries could neither resist colonial expansion‚ nor throw off the colonial yoke. However‚ when one considers the wider history of Asia‚ this claim falls apart. This is because there were time periods where colonialism was unachievable
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The number one argument is was slavery as horrifying as it is made out to be it left people with a long lasting effect. Some may argue no but this will explain to you why it is. There are four reasons for my thinking they are‚ that the people who owned the slaves were cruel and heartless‚ people were treated like they did not matter and like they were different and like they were animals and no one saw anything wrong with this‚ innocent people were being taken and hurt and even born into this‚ when
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Was Columbus’s discovery epochal? Many of us have grown up believing from our earliest school years that Christopher Columbus was the voyager who found America. In between the centuries several European explorers navigated around the world searching for treasures and new lands. Of all the explorers‚ Columbus is the most celebrated and acknowledged - for supposedly founding America in 1492. Columbus was born in Italy in 1452‚ of humble origins; he grew up surrounded by
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