Asia-Pacific

Who would've known that this once abandoned desert would turn into an energetic city, sitting on top of an ocean of oil. Dubai is booming with ideas from tycoons. It is filled with a healthy supply of oil, breathtaking scenery, and insane architecture that is ahead of our time. "Dubai is one of the seven emirates that constitute the Arab Emirates" in 1971, the city of Dubai began to skyrocket, but has been mentioned many times since 1095. During that time, the Byzantine and Sassanine empires…

Battlefield 1 is a video game created by professional game developers from Dice and EA. This game was released on October 21, 2016 as a first-person shooting game from the battlefields of world war one. Battlefield 1 not only showed the world what the great war was really like, but it taught kids history and experiences of the soldiers who fought in it. Structure Dice and EA produce games after they got feedback from the gaming community. Gamers usually fond of historic events wanted…

American and Japanese Schooling Japan and America, over 6,000 miles apart have quite a few differences in their public school systems. Each country’s cultural values are represented in the classroom every day, and students are so used to it they might not even be aware. Comparing the two school systems, it’s clear that the schools are designed to create a specific kind of citizen after their education. Japan seeks to create respectful youth, that will later work hard for their country. The…

Who I admire There are so many talented people to admire in the world. The person who I really admire is the legendary, beautiful, French Canadian artist Celine Dion. She was born being the youngest child in a family of fourteen kids in Charlemagne, Quebec on March.10th 1968. Everyone in her whole family sang together in a group where they had went on many tours across Canada and performed as “Dion’s Family”. At just five years old, she sang various times in front…

1. The patterns for the different parameters depend on the season. Atmospheric temperature is always the high in July due to summer. For instance, the atmospheric temperature in Virginia was nearly 0°C in January 2000 but rose to about 25°C in July 2000. This makes sense because temperatures are low in January and high in July. The temperatures started dropping again around October because of the change in season. The amount of precipitation depends on the region. Regions near the ocean…

Environmental changes have had huge effects on the whole world. Although it affects all of us, the bigger and worse impact is on the poor people of developing countries. This is due to their lack of ability to help themselves. They do not have the resources that they need to at least adapt if not make it better. We live in a selfish-minded world which means the people who have the greatest ability to help, do not. People of more developed countries, whether they are rich or poor, are the biggest…

Contact between different areas of the world is both beneficial and disastrous to the people and regions involved. Relative isolation allowed civilization in the New World to flourish, but imperialism in Europe threatened everything that had been established. When Europeans arrived in the New World and interacted with the natives, catastrophic diseases decimated the population, foods and plants were transported all over the world, animals were introduced and domesticated for their helpful…

DBQ .Using the documents, analyze the actions and reactions of people in the Middle East to restrictions placed on the rights and freedoms of women? 2. Identify an additional type of document and explain how it would be helpful in assessing the people’s actions and reactions A recent survey posted in the In Afghanistan show that 30% of muslims say that women should not have the choice to wear a veil. This is one of the many countries in the Middle East that are very conservative when it…

Southeast Asia by 1760 (Document 8). In this region, companies of various European powers established numerous trading factories, becoming a strong force in Asian commerce; but the facts that these foreign companies had their own law systems and militaries and that they controlled regional imports and exports shows just how unsuccessful these Asian societies were at limiting European contact. These invasive European settlements prove that prohibited trade between Europe and Southeast Asia…

Both pieces speak of the bias of ethnocentrism from the west in accordance to the middle east. History is seen only by what is contemporary at the time according to the first piece by Abdullah Laroui. Within the second piece by Edward Said he is clarifying about his book over orientalism and the continuation of the same thinking that people see the middle east as a picture that does not move since it is not the same as those who are looking at it. Additionally both pieces remark about the issues…