The economies of Cuba and Puerto Rico are very similar during the 16th‚ 17th‚ and 18th centuries. As Spain colonized these two islands in the 16th century under the idea that gold was abundant. Thus in turn the islands became a safe port for Spain and her vessels. It also set out to be a huge migration from the Spain to the islands‚ because everyone was set to search for gold. . This turned out to be short lived as the mining of gold peaked in 1517 till 1819. By Spain using Cuba and Puerto Rico for
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Jayanta Mahapatra`s poem "Dawn at Puri" narrates by describing the Oriyan landscape‚ especially the holy city of Puri. Mahapatra is deeply rooted in Indian culture and ethos with which he is emotionally attached as a poet. Though the language of expression is English his sensibility is ’Oriya’. In order to appreciate the prescribed poem it is important to understand his sensitive attitude to the native socio cultural practices.Here in the poem under discussion‚ Puri is the living protagonist for
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16th Amendment- Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913 What it is- The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes‚ from whatever source derived‚ without apportionment among the several States‚ and without regard to any census or enumeration. Reason for ratification- In 1895‚ in the Supreme Court case of Pollock v Farmer’s Loan and Trust (157 U.S. 429)‚ the Court disallowed a federal tax on income from real property. The tax was designed to be an indirect
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Dokdo ("독도" in Korean)‚ also called the Dokdo island‚ is a group of islands in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). These islands are collectively called Dokdo. The name means a "rock island." Dokdo has been a Korean territory throughout all known history except during the Japanese occupation of Korea between 1905 and 1945. Dokdo is also called Liancourt Rocks after the French whaling ship‚ Le Liancourt‚ which rediscovered Dokdo on January 27‚ 1849. The Japanese name for Dokdo used to be Matsushima (松島)
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could become skilful craftsmen. He refers to the bronze castings and ivory cups and horns that were created ’after their intercourse with the Portuguese of the 16th century’. This states that the natives could only produce skilful works with European encouragement. Joyce uses the evidence of the decline in bronze-work after the 16th century as argument for this statement. Joyce also states that ’... when that intercourse was interrupted‚ shows that the native craftsman was raised for a moment
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Columbian Exchange After Christopher Columbus’s voyage in the 15th and 16th century The Columbian Exchange started which was the trade of food‚ animals‚ and different resources between the new world and old world. The new world was affected more by the Columbian Exchange because of the introduction of tobacco‚ diseases‚ and horses. One of the reasons the new world was affected more by the Columbian Exchange was because of tobacco. Many people were and are still being affected and or ruined because
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Despair one of the key emotions that drive both the plots of ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Macbeth’. Although the despair in Macbeth is represented by guilt and in ‘Hamlet’ it is by grief. Both emotions result in the tragic ends of characters such as Ophelia and Lady Macbeth. In ‘Macbeth’ Shakespeare repeatedly plays around with the word ‘sleep’ in ways that are both hidden and obvious. In doing this‚ he leads the audience to think of sleep as something that soothes the mind and is a release from stress. Macbeth
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Territory Territory Design chap #9 Wh Use Te Why Use Territories Territory is defined as customers located in geographic area that are assigned to an individual sales person. Specialties include products‚ customers‚ or functions functions. Moti Motivation & Cost Saving Cost Sa Use to benefits people Sales people responsible for whole area Evaluation & Control Units Cont Units Performance of individual sales people can be more easily controlled and evaluated with sale
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The Similarities and Differences of 17th Century Japan and Europe (1500 to 1700) Japan‚ from 1500 to almost 1700‚ was undergoing a major transformation. The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola and approved by Pope Paul III as a religious order within the Catholic Church in 1540. Francis Xavier was the first Jesuit sent to preach religion outside of Europe. Three Portuguese traders whose ship was blown to Japan in 1542 or 1543 are the first
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History tends to repeat itself. This phrase has been said for as long as I can remember; reason being is how much truth it holds. The document by Jean Bodin titled “On sovereignty” is from the 16th century while the one by Catherine The Great titled is from the 18th century. There is a full century between these two documents and yet their ideas are so closely related. Many differences yes but the similarities are quite surprising. I will show that even though these documents are for two different
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