A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shape the World The total amount of export and imports takes place across national borders in the world is amazing. According to International Monetary Fund, above $20 trillions of total goods and services will be exchanged each year in times to come. In 2008, United States alone have imported and exported over $4.5 trillion of goods and services. The US have traded virtually to every country in the world. It is true that Americans have imported chocolate from…
Fathers had the monumental task of creating a new form of government in the aftermath of the revolution. One that had never been successfully pulled off as Ellis states “no republican government prior to the American Revolution, apart from a few Swiss cantons and Greek city-states, had ever survived for long and none had ever been tried over a land mass as large as the thirteenth colonies. “(Ellis 6). The founding fathers had to also deal with the fact that they were not unified in how that…
life the most are my tennis team, my education, and service through my church. From the age of eight until the 2014 tennis season I played tennis but never took it very seriously. The summer before my sophomore year my family moved into the Plymouth-Canton district; I felt out of place and alone. I didn’t make the volleyball team and basketball season wasn’t all that great. When spring came I had to decide between softball and tennis. With my mom being the tennis manager at the Livonia Y she…
unmatchable beauty”( ), Viola is a natural romantic, as Cesario and herself. Olivia falls for her enticing words. Olivia is also enchanted by Viola’s false proclamations of love. When asked what she would do as the Duke, Viola would, “write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night”( ) Viola would sing romantic poems outside Olivia’s house as a proclamation of love. At this, Olivia is hooked, “What is your parentage”( ), Olivia falls in love with Viola’s…
Why is The Plague SO Good at Killing? There are some factors about the Yersinia pestis that make it an infecting machine. Y. pestis creates two anti-phagocytic antigens, F1 antigen and VW antigen. An anti-phagocytic antigen is defined as, a substance in the immune system’s cells that eats harmful pathogens. Both the F1 and the VW antigen are necessary for the bacteria to grow, as is the temperature, 37degrees Celsius. It is because of this need for a certain temperature, lower than which fleas…
On 10 September 14, 2016, I sat down with Jannine Clare Sazon Mendioro in a Starbucks and spent 45 minutes interviewing Jannine about her food culture. Jannine is a recent immigrant to the United States, she immigrated with her mother about 7 years ago in 2009. However, her father and brother immigrated few years earlier than she did. Jannine is Filipino and her religious affiliation is roman catholic. According to Jannine, her religious affiliation does not affect her food habits too much. In…
How reliable a picture of the economic structure of any one Celtic society can we gain from the ancient sources? In terms of economy, the Trinovantes (had a wide range of different industries as well as benefitting from close trading links with Rome. Archaeological artefacts discovered within the Trinovantes tribal territory can be used as reliable sources to help establish a picture of the economic structure of this Celtic society. Ptolemy states in his Geography (2.3) that ‘… further to the…
The Lemon Test- http://www.pewforum.org/2009/05/14/shifting-boundaries6/ Aguilar v. Felton (1985). Was a federal program that paid New York City public school teachers to provide remedial instruction to students who lived in low-income neighborhoods. The teachers delivered these services at public and private schools, a substantial number of which were religious. Aguilar required the government to monitor whether the government-funded teachers incorporated religious content into their secular…
In the insect world there are a plethora of fascinating creatures fulfilling their own specific ecological niches all across the various ecosystems of this planet. Among these, you may have observed flies of metallic luster, colored blue or green or black, near garbage, filth, rotting meat, or even flowers that possess a pungent smell. These cosmopolitan Blowflies, belonging to order Diptera and family Calliphoridae, may seem filthy (and they actually are), yet they are actually quite useful.…
When being a leader of a country, people would think that they are doing everything they can to make sure their country is leading in the right direction without others influences coming inside. China during the 18th century to mid-20th century had a lot of concerns, but the main concern that would be at the forefront would be the decline the people and the leaders saw that their country were headed to. From doing research I would say that the decline of china would have to be caused by the…