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Why did relations between the Dutch settlers and Khoikhoi turn violent so quickly? In this essay the relations between the Dutch settlers and the Khoikhoi will be analysed and discussed in connection to why this encounter turned violent so quickly. South Africa during the 1600’s became vulnerable to European imperialism and colonisation due to the fact that the land surrounding the Cape peninsula acts as a strategical position within the world. The Khoikhoi were the indigenous population who had…

The End of Byzantium, by Jonathan Harris, seeks to argue against popular thought that the Ottomans and the Byzantines fought due to their different religions, but that the two were often trading partners that adopted some of each other 's culture. Furthering that the real cause of the down fall of the Byzantine Empire were policies of power grabbing on both sides with the Byzantine trying to meddle in Ottoman policies and made several unwise alliances while the Ottoman 's sultans needed…

Stage 5 Turns out during one of Shaun and I’s nights out in Boston I had purchased a Powerball tickets. I had completely forgotten about this ticket in my back pocket of my jeans. I put them through the wash and my mom had found the ticket and gave it to me and said “Joey, do you want this Powerball ticket still? You just put it in the washing machine.” With the odds of winning the Powerball being so low. I thought about just throwing it away. I decided to take it to the local gas station and…

it felt like hours, and I thought it would never end until I heard a loud snap. It was a cold start to the new year, and being surrounded by all these new faces and doing pushup’s for not standing right, that was only the beginning of my journey at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. I was scared just like every other Private in my company; leaving our families and going on to do greater things and serve our country was what most of us…

Dive bars are broadly defined as a shabby and disreputable establishment—essentially the lowest of quality drinking establishments. Though there are numerous guides to Boston’s “best dive bars,” this complicates the definition of what exactly constitutes what makes a bar a “dive”. If a dive bar is always shabby and seedy, is it possible to be “the best” in being the worst? If so, would the award for the best dive bar actually go to the worst? Many of these common standards that define a dive…

Soundtrack of My Life My life has taken so many turns, from excelling in football, to being so well know in the hospitals that even other patents know me. Since I was little, I have had a profound love for the game of football. I played all the way up to my sophomore year in high school. In that time I was not proud of who I was becoming and living in a small town everybody knows what you do. I would go out every weekend and ignore my true friends. I made myself believe that my real…

Despite such claims to republicanized monarchy in Great Britain, certain colonists and thinkers were not convinced. Englishman, and later colonial resident, Thomas Paine, for example, called into question the integrity of such claims in his pamphlet Common Sense. Written in 1776 and dispensed throughout the colonies, this seminal pamphlet attacked the absoluteness of the British monarchy. Unlike Wood’s interpretation of British monarchy—which is, granted, aided by hundreds of years of…

The MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) has been a topic that has been debated for quite some time now and probably will continue to be debated in future years. Some people think the drinking age should be lowered while others think it should remain at twenty-one years old. At the age of eighteen when an adolescent legally becomes an adult, and with this comes many responsibilities such as enlisting in the military and the privilege to serve on a jury. Reasons like these are why people think one…

Evaluating the presidency of Jefferson Davis is somewhat of a difficult task. When determining how effective a President was while in office, one has to look at many different aspects, as there is so much they have to do. A president who was a great military leader might be remembered poorly if he wasn't able to pull his country out of economic hardship, just as a president who was able to recover his country from depression might be if he lost a lot of men in an unsuccessful war. The problem…

TITLE Baseball, the game that we know as America’s national past time, is a game that started out as a recreational activity between friends and neighbors and grew into the professional sports league we know today as Major League Baseball. It is believed that the game of baseball was created out of two British games that that were played by the early colonists, Cricket and Rounders (Fischer 5). Cricket was a game played with a flat bat, ball and two wickets. The game was played on a…