The Silk Road served as a cultural bridge linking the east to the west on the Eurasian continent. It was an extensive trade route originated from Chang’an in the east and ended at the Mediterranean in the west. This trade included both overland and maritime routes. The society that began the Silk Road was the Han Dynasty in China in approximately 200 B.C.E. The rise and fall of different civilizations and nomadic invasions transformed the Silk Road and its users‚ and from 200 BCE to 1450 CE the spread
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Current Event Business Strategies That Make J.Crew A Successful Business J. Crew has successfully carried designer quality merchandise that has brought substantial growth to the company. With 334 stores carrying women’s men’s and children’s clothing they have seen significant success in their E-commerce and catalogue shopping alternatives. They recently called their catalogue “The J.Crew‚ Style Guide”. Anna Wintour claimed the J. Crew catalogue to be like “Shopping with your best friend whose style
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The Silk Road‚ once a popular trade route‚ slowly was overshadowed by the growing Indian Ocean trade. The Indian Ocean trade route was more efficient‚ easier to travel‚ and much faster. Meanwhile the Silk Road became less traveled because of its harsh geography‚ the spread of disease‚ and the fall of the empires that supported the trade. Differences in geography caused the Silk Road to decline and expanded the Indian Ocean trade. Both routes experienced different kinds of difficulties. The Silk
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Angelique A. Auman English 10 Mr. Swenson November 9‚ 2014 “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin The short story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin was a good example of what a single parent experiences in her daily life. Mrs. Sommers was a mother that puts her children before herself. She came across a decent amount of money but was captured by her own desires and forgot about her children. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings” the tone seems to be depressing at first then to exciting then
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C) Cognitive (J.Piaget‚ L. Vygotsky ) They posited children learn from hand on experiences. However unlike Piaget he claimed that timely and sensitive invention by adults when children are learning a new task (zone of proximal development) could help children to learn new tasks. Vygotsky also stressed the importance of social interaction he felt other children can guide each other’s development as well as adults. Vygotsky also thought that children needed to be active in their own learning and
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I like ponies alot because they are just soooo cool.3 Discussion Voice Activity 1.03 Discussion Voice Activity 11/26/13 9:12 PM 58 176 All 2 1.05 Discussion Voice Activity 1.05 Discussion Voice Activity 12/010 AM 52 191 All 3 1.06 Discussion Voice Activity 1.06 Discussion oice Activity 12/01/2 PM 46 141 All 4 1.08 Discussion Voice Activity 1.08 Discussion Voice Activity 11/2 47 122 All 5 2.04 Discussion Voice Activity 2.04 DActivity 11/21/13 9:34 PM 114 All 6 2.06 Discussion Voice Activity
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After giving us a better understanding of the geography of the Silk Road‚ Foltz dives into the different religions that one would come across on the Silk Road and the impact that was made. Foltz starts with one of the oldest religions‚ Zoroastrianism‚ and supplies the fundamentals on Iranian and European religions. Buddhism traveled from India to China along the Silk Road spreading the word and the beliefs of the religion along the way. Temples and sanctuaries were established‚ schools were built
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Silk Stockings "Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin is a short story that explains the role of a stereotypical female. The main character takes care of family‚ is impulsive‚ and wants to live in luxury. The first example of stereotypes is that Mrs. Sommers took care of her family‚ she thought very hard about what she would buy her kids as soon as she got the money. She didn’t spend a second thinking of herself she just thought to take care of her children right away. The story said‚ "She lay awake‚ revolving
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Stephen D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s purpose was to make the reader susceptible to the idea that there is a concealed yet obvious side of everything‚ if delved into enough. This purpose is useful in uncovering the conventional wisdom‚ a phrase coined by economist John Kenneth Galbraith. According to him‚ he believed that conventional wisdom “ must be simple‚ convenient‚ comfortable‚ and comforting - though not necessarily true”(Levitt and Dubner 86). But‚ what if someone wanted to know if some
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experience as they search for their personal identities. Both “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin and “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck deal with the journey to one’s identity‚ but they do so in different ways. In 1896 Kate Chopin wrote the story‚ “A Pair of Silk Stockings”‚ it takes place in an unnamed city large enough to have a department store‚ a fashionable restaurant‚ a theatre‚ a cable car and most likely depicts what it was like
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