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with Indians. The Indians tribes closer to the Atlantic Ocean would start trading with the European. Some of the goods the Indians trade were potatoes and herbs. European would trade horses, pigs, ETC this part of the exchange was good the good communication the Europeans establish with the Indians would depend on how well the exchange would go. The Columbian exchange brought new ways of Indians to stay in one place and cultivate the land with the Europeans help. Which help them make strong…

Executive Summary The premise of this analytical assessment was to evaluate how Pfizer uses analytics as it relates to decision making. The assessment focuses on the organization as a whole, with interviews from two colleagues in two different business units: Development Operations (GIP) and the Business Analytics & Insight (GEP). Overall, it is evident that Pfizer, as a consequence of being a heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry, must use scientific data to ensure that the products we make…

Purinex was as a drug discovery and evolution company located in Syracuse, New York. “The company sought to commercialize therapeutic compounds based on its purine drug-development platform.” The company evolved procedure for making small molecules that acted as selective agonists or antagonists. The company consisted of 14 employees and the company has a chemistry laboratory, and 35 pending patents in the purine field. During 2004, the company promised two drug treatment: the first one for…

dealing with current issues. For instance, in 2002 Elizabeth Kolbert wrote an article to substantiate the many questionings on Columbus and she states that the, “notion of discovery, was being reevaluated” (206). The history and the philosophy that has been taught on Christopher Columbus’s exploration of the sea that led to the discovery of America. Contrary to what has been demonstrated in the teachings about Columbus in the past, further investigation…

the Europeans. The primary player in the Age of Discovery and exploration was Portugal. They took the major role in the fifteenth century to search for a route to Asia and acquire wealth and knowledge about navigation and mapping out the Atlantic Ocean. Overall Portugal had a huge role in the Age of Discovery and starting it. They also had a significant role in the African Slave Trade. Portugal made an enormous contribution to the Age of Discovery. It started with the Prince Henry the…

Though Columbus did not discover the New World; the European exploration of the Americas began with his search for a new ocean route to the East Indies. Instead of discovering this route, he found a place entirely new to Europeans; this is why they referred to it as the New World. This, of course, lead to the Europeans settling in these areas and conquering the native peoples in order to pursue their three main incentives; god, gold, and glory. Different historians have varying takes on exactly…

On October 12, 1492 , Christopher Columbus landed on an island which is now considered part of the Caribbean. He was met with a strange group of people he assumed were from eastern India, thus he called them Indians. However, he would come to learn very quickly that this land was not India, but a whole new world yet discovered by his people. Columbus would go on to introduce European technology, plants, animals, and even diseases with the new world. He would also take not only the new world…

Early Modern Europe is a period modern historians date from around 1450 to the beginning of the industrial revolution in late 18th century Britain. It is considered a transition period from the Medieval world to the modern world, and thus has elements of both in most aspects of life at this time. The Legal system was not an exception as during the 17th century, the legal system across Europe was changing to reflect the centralizing power of the crown or lack thereof. The new legal systems tried…

Shackleton Case Study: Was He a Successful Leader? Summary In late 1914, the ship Endurance, left the port of South Georgia Island for their final stretch to their South Pole destination. Sir Ernest Shackleton, their illustrious leader, had been at sea before and had even attempted this perilous journey prior to this sailing. Shackleton was starting this journey with renewed vigor as he could sense this would be one of his last chances to accomplish his life-long goal of traversing the southern…

Continuing, “The High Middle Ages” (1200-1400), the Gieses broke the era into two centuries; the 13th century was considered the “Golden Century, an era of affluence and growth” in contrast the 14th century of catastrophe and contraction (Gies 166). The 6th chapter is devoted to the High Middle Ages, the authors elaborate on the continuation of technological momentums that the Europeans experienced during this first century of this era. Another advancement that must be mentioned of is the…