Panasonic Corporation of North America Panasonic Corporation of North America‚ based in Secaucus‚ NJ‚ is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka‚ Japan-based Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of its branding‚ marketing‚ sales‚ service‚ product development and R&D operations in the U.S. and Canada. For more than 50 years‚ Panasonic has delighted American consumers with innovations for the home and business. Panasonic’s consumer electronics and technology products range from award-winning
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Slavery was the trade that during the 18th and 19th centuries provided the West Indies and places like it with males and females to do work on the plantations. The slaves were wanted to make the plantation owners work a lot easier. They were split into three groups known as gangs according to their health and physique. The first gang consisted of the strongest and healthiest and they cleared‚ holed and planted the ground before crop time and cut the canes‚ fed the mills and attended to the manufacture
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“Slavery was embraced‚ almost without question‚ by nearly everyone save [but] the slaves themselves” (Boritt 11). Slavery‚ without a doubt‚ is the primary cause of the Civil War. With the South’s economy being so dependent on the use of slavery‚ it was difficult for them to get rid of such a practice. This led a division of the North and South‚ in which the North believed slavery to be immoral. However‚ the south begged to differ‚ with no explicit evidence to claim slavery as illegal‚ they used
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Colonial North America‚ 1700 – 1780 The Enlightment and the Great Awakening were both huge impacts on the colonial regions of North America. During the Enlightment‚ the thinkers were arguing that the universe was governed by natural laws that people could understand and apply to their own advantage. The writers were emphasizing rationality‚ harmony‚ and order. Sons were being sent to college during this time and many people were reading and writing. However the Enlightment did cause a decline
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perspectives regarding the causes of World War One‚ these causes include‚ imperialism‚ militarism‚ alliances‚ and nationalism. Imperialism was a major contributing factor to the start of WW1. Tensions between Germany‚ Britain‚ and France grew throughout the years prior to WW1 due to the vast amount of land France and Britain had acquired. Imperialism also led to certain political alliances such the triple entente and the triple alliance. Germany was also very worried because
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Running Head: THE DENE PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA! 1 THE DENE PEOPLE! 2 Abstract The Dene are a First Nations culture with a unique set of values and principles often not shared by the popular culture of the countries in which they reside. They believe in harmony between all living things of this world as well as the spirit world. Like all aboriginal tribes of the Americas‚ their culture has been irreparably bruised by the coming of other peoples‚ yet at the core of their history are
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Throughout history‚ African Americans both free and enslaved were not treated equally nor permitted with the same rights as white men. African Americans were enslaved and not allowed to vote or hold public office. Since around the 15th century African Americans have been treated worse than other races‚ some even experienced brutal punishment for justifiable mistakes. The use of African American slave labor was an enormous contribution to agriculture and labor. It became a part of southern state’s
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settlement of North America there were many people who crossed cultural borders becoming cultural brokers. Three such people were Isabel Montour‚ Samson Occom and Susannah Johnson. These three possessed strong language skills or the ability to learn new languages quickly‚ this was perhaps the most important skill needed to cross cultural borders and communicate with “outsiders.” Another necessary skill was a complete understanding of their culture and the cultures of other groups. This skill was used
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augmented. The west and West central African states‚ who were already involved in slave trading‚ supplied Europeans with African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean. Slaves were inexpensive to Europeans standard‚ they tend to live longer compared to European laborers who were vulnerable to diseases. Slavery is very much different from labor. Therefore‚ Africans became the major source of New World plantation labor. Nonetheless‚ they were not labor‚ but it was slavery. Slavery
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and sold African slaves from West Africa to a plethora of locations‚ most notably North and South America. These slaves would go on to form their own individualized communities within their bondage and shape the very countries that had enslaved them in the 18th and 19th centuries. Slaves in North and South America played similar roles but developed independently of each other and thus shaped their own individual social‚ economic‚ and political advances. African Slaves living in North and South
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