ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST 10. THE TRAIDING ROUTE • In the last two centuries of the Middle Ages‚ the Europeans‚ while regaining the Holy Land from the Muslims‚ were able to establish commerce with the Orient through trade routes. The goods the Europeans wanted were gold‚ jewels‚ silk‚ perfumes‚ especially spices like: *pepper *onions *ginger *nutmeg *garlic is the most important items of trade from East. • Owning to the desire of the Europeans to enhance the taste of food and to preserve
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it is 1880. The Civil War has been over for 15 years. Economic conditions in the town you live in have deteriorated‚ and you are struggling to make ends meet. You decide to try your luck out west‚ where there is plenty of land and plenty of opportunity. Before leaving‚ you must decide what you will do out west—be a miner‚ a cowboy‚ or a farmer. Each presents its own opportunities and difficulties. Write an essay in which you: Tell what you would be—a miner‚ cowboy‚ or farmer. Describe the opportunities
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certainly hard‚ but as time passed America transformed into a more complex civilization and so too did its identity and unity. Still ruled under Great Britain the colonists were able to create a unique identity and partial sense of unity as time progressed. The colonists had a full sense of their identity being the egalitarian‚ self-reliant people that they were‚ but lacked complete unity‚ still indecisive about breaking away from their mother country by the eve of the Revolution. A great deal of the
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A: Decline of the West Hanif Kureishi´s short story “Decline of the West” was first published in 2010‚ in London. It deals with the financial crisis in 2007-2008 and about a fired banker and his family. The capitalistic world was doing well. People where earning‚ and spending money like there was no tomorrow. The banks where stable‚ and could lend money to people who wanted to build bigger houses or drive the newest car – just any new and expensive material stuff people couldn’t “live without”
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Journey To The West 西游记 Growing up‚ we all had our favorite stories. My personal favorite was the Harry Potter series; I spent hours and hours immersed in those books. For a lot of Chinese children however‚ the story they grew up with was called Journey to the West‚ or XiYouJi. This story was written by Wu Cheng’en‚ an author who lived during the 16th century in the Ming dynasty. A very famous piece of literature‚ it is considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature. The
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Similarities and Differences Bacteria and archaea both share the fact that they are single-celled prokaryotic microorganisms that lack membrane enclosed nuclei. It has been discovered that the two typically can be found to have the same size and shape as one another. “They are both found occurring as rods‚ cocci‚ spirals‚ plates‚ coiled etc.” ("Archaea vs. Bacteria‚" n.d.). Both organisms use the flagella to swim and also reproduce by means of binary fission. On the surface these similarities can
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3. How might factors such as diversity‚ attitude‚ learning‚ and work styles affect team building? Team building is based on many factors and diversities arise from many different factors. We have language barriers to get past‚ hard time with dialect‚ or trying to speak an unfamiliar language. It could also be from attitude‚ perhaps someone could have a bad attitude. Maybe the attitude was brought in from outside then again it could have been personal with someone or stress from the formation of
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Mahesh Verma Mr. Vick DRE 098 June 27‚ 2013 Body paragraph 4 Pros and cons of diversity Pros to diversity People from various backgrounds and cultures don’t think or work alike‚ thus it encourages more outside-the-box thinking that leads to new inventions and discoveries. It provides stimuli for thought as other cultures present new experiences‚ new fashions‚ different cuisine and linguistic accents which is all the good part. Everything we see around us has been influenced in some way by
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Reconstruction and the West Reconstruction and the West The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? The south’s reconstruction failed for many reasons in my opinion. First off many states rejected the 13th Amendment. Furthermore‚ many of the southern states had no intentions of giving Blacks any type of true freedoms. Many states tried to make the African Americans as property-less as possible. They were
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West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide Jeffrey P. Shay University of Montana In early December 1994‚ Patrick Dowd‚ a 30-year-old management consultant‚ stared out his office window at the snowy Ithaca‚ New York‚ landscape. Dowd reflected on his recent phone conversation with Jim Johnson‚ general manager of the 95-room West Indies Yacht Club Resort (WIYCR)‚ located in the British Virgin Islands. Johnson sounded desperate to pull the resort out of its apparent tailspin and noted
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