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    Ww1 Alliance System

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    War One World War One was a war between over 100 countries, and two alliances, the allied powers and the central powers. To sum up there were countries from many different places including Africa, Australia, America, and Asia. The Primary countries in the allied powers where Siberia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, and the United States. The primary countries in the central powers were Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. In the alliances each country…

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    This great country we live in called America was named after one of history’s important contributors. It was named after an Italian-born explorer and merchant named Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo was born in 1451 in Florence, Italy. He was born into a family of culture. His uncle, Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican Friar was his educator instead of him attending to the University of Pisa as his older brothers did. His father was a notary in Florence and one of his other uncles was an…

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    stating that, although, unemployment is down, as it fell 4.9% in January, but the job market will continue to improve. Inflation was also mentioned, noting that inflation is currently 1.3%, a little below the central bank’s target of 2%, while the Fed forecasts inflation only to reach 1.6%.…

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    all.” A quote from a letter written by Hernando de Soto (Letter to Justice and Board of Magistrates in Santiago de Cuba, 3). God guided his entire life. Much progress in America’s history was made during de Soto’s early life, conquests in Central America, and expeditions in the New World. Not much information is known about Hernando de Soto’s early childhood, but there is an abundance of knowledge on his teenage and young-adult years. He was born in approximately 1500 in Jerez de los…

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    The Europeans slipped up on America while trying to find cheaper routes to Asia in order to save on the trade goods. The main reason as to why European nations moved to America was to increase their wealth and expand their influence over world activities. According to (Barden, 2001), the Spanish were among the first Europeans to travel and settle in the New World and in what is presently the United States.By the year 1650, nevertheless, The British had already established a very dominant…

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    Spain and other European sea powers. This event is often described as the start of the modern era. Later on in 1620 English settlers, the so-called "Mayflower Pilgrims", left for America seeking religious freedom. They disembarked near Plymouth, Massachusetts, being the first successful European migrants in North America. The immigration flow to the US increased moderately after that but only during the 19th century, due to population pressure and hunger crises, millions of Europeans were driven…

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    A fixed rate is a rate the government or in most cases the central bank sets and maintains as the official exchange rate. A set price will be determined against a major world currency. The most common currency countries usually fix to is the U.S. dollar. The local exchange rate is maintain by the central bank buys and sells its own currency on the foreign exchange market in return for the currency to which it is pegged. According to Xu unlike the fixed rate, a floating exchange rate is…

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    United Fruit Imperialism

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    established on 1899 in Central America, as the first U.S. company to take business in another country, portraying inequality between the authority figures, and its’ farming laborers. Few holding high charge positions of this company got rich while abusing and exploiting plantation workers who were in deplorable conditions while earning low wages. United Fruit kept gaining power by acquiring a wide number of lands and plantation in the vulnerable countries of Central America who were ruled by…

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    What is Early America? Early America’s is a time period that started in 3000 B.C. -A.D. 1900, and there are plenty of things that happened in this time period. The Maya, Aztecs, and Inca are best known of the urban oriented civilization. The Native Americans was the oldest of nomadic hunters. There traditions included pottery, music and dance, and their architecture. Pottery is apart of the cultural forces therefore pottery is along with their culture and also ceramics, which is…

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    June 15 Case Study

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    The Forecasting for the June 15th financial instruments of the S&P 500, 10 year T-Notes (yield), the gold price, the oil (WTI), the unemployment rate, and the Euro. My reasoning for these instruments was a mix between guessing and little economic reasoning. Out of the 6 financial instruments I was closest to 10 year T-Notes (yield), and the oil (WTI). While the other four instruments I was either in the right direction or the market went in the opposite of what I predicted. On May 18th the S&P…

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