Lisbon

to leave was 52% and to stay was 48% of the more than 30 million people voting (Wheeler and Hunt, 2016). The decision to leave the E.U. has been confirmed to happen for some time over the next two years under the agreement called Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty giving the U.K. and the E.U. two years to decide on the terms of the split. The Brexit has caused an uproar of changes to happen to the economy and the citizens of the U.K.…

Giovanni de Fontana made a object from cloth and rings of wood. His theory was if a burning brand that made lots of smoke was placed under the pyramid, the air would become lighter and it would move up. Bartolomeu de Gusmao on the 8th August 1709 in Lisbon Portugal was successful in lifting a hot air balloon 4,5m off the ground. His balloon was called Passarola. The first ever transportation…

William Hawkins was the captain of Hector in the third voyage set forth by the East India Company (1607). Not much is known about his early life except that, he had previously been in the West Indies and that he had been for some time in the Levant and knew Turkish. The only known person of his family is his brother Charles. Hawkins has been called and generally thought to be a professional sailor or a “bluff sea captain” as he was the commander of Hector. However this was not exactly the case…

The scene starts with Rick (Humphrey Bogart), Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), Captain Renault (Claude Rains), and Victor (Paul Henreid) arriving to the plane that would take two people to Lisbon. The characters are at the immediate forefront of the scene because the entire background is covered by smoke (however, from further researching it is also because they were not able to use a real plane at night). Once Rick says that Victor and Ilsa…

Home is different from a house since it has sentimental values attached to them: it represents not only a place of dwelling, but also a community where a family belongs. Due to the trend of linking affection with the family, home is essentially a place that provides one with warmth, comfort, love, sense of acceptance, and stability. But those attitudes toward home are not always found in everyone; one may be innately be adverted from it, like the case of many adventure-takers such as Robinson…

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer born in Genova, Italy around 1451, although being born into a poor family his father was able to send him to the University of Pavia where he studied navigation, Latin, geometry, geography and astronomy. Columbus spent much of his life in Portugal and Spain, after seeking funds for an expedition to locate the Land he believed to be Asia, it was here he met with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand who obliged him. He was highly revered because of his…

Globalization.html modernity, without leaving time for the crisis of the medieval model. No notice is taken that the scientific revolution -- discussed by Kuhn -- departs from a modernity that has already begun, the result of a "modern paradigm." 19 It is for that reason that in the fifteenth century (if we do not consider the later European inventions) Europe does not have any superiority over China. Needham allows himself to be bewitched by this mirage, when he writes: "The fact is that the…

The Elizabethan Era 1. The Elizabethan Era was a period between 1558 and 1603 which was ruled by Queen Elizabeth. Her reign developed in literacy and expansion overseas. The term ‘Elizabethan’ meant someone who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. People such as William Shakespeare were an Elizabethan. 2. During the Elizabethan, England’s greatest rivalries were Spain. The war took place in between the years 1586 and 1603. Since England was a Protestant country which is a…

and his followers took the rigid definition metaphysics of cause and effect and theology to argue that it was all part of a perfect God’s plan for people to experience suffering. The pinnacle example of this type of philosophy comes after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that killed fifty thousand people. It is said that these philosophers, claimed that all was for the best in God’s perfect plan. “The heirs of the dead would now come into their into their fortunes, masons would grow rich in…

How does El Dorado and the Flor de la Mar deepen the understanding of the cultural, political, and historical time it was created? During the fifteenth and sixteenth century, exploration and conquest was the main goal of many countries. The world had not yet been explored and some countries hadn’t even been discovered yet. People always seem to want more, more land, more power and more gold. This was the case with both the Flor de la Mar and the lost city of El Dorado. “To possess any amount of…