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Castillo de San Marcos, is one of the first successful forts entirely made of stone. For tourists, everywhere you look you could see something that exist in the 16 hundreds. The fort has endured many wars and conflicts,but still stands tall in Augustine Texas . Castillo de San Marcos would be a very interesting memorial to visit. The fort is an oddly shaped memorial. It’s shape is a square with an empty center, and diamond shaped peers on each corner to look out on.The fort is…

Marco Polo is a great explorer who was born in Venice, Italy around 1254. He was from a wealthy merchant family. He started to travel at the age of 17 with his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo. They were merchants who traded jewels with the Middle East through Asia. In 1271, the Polo family decided to go on a long, adventurous journey to China. They first traveled by sea to the Persian Gulf, and then were forced to take an ancient caravan route through present day Iraq, Iran, and…

Italian crowdfunds UK Mafia research Disgruntled doctoral student Marco Trifuoggi is giving up on Italian academia and has decided to crowdfund a Sociology PHD in the UK - he just needs €31278 Trifuoggi left a fully funded PHD programme in Trento because his academic supervisors – a husband and wife couple – wouldn't let him carry out research on the Mafia in his hometown of Naples. “British Academia is more sensitive to power relation issues between students and staff when it comes to…

Marco Lopez, who is nineteen years old, will be tried for the double murder charges of Luis Reynoso of fifteen years old and Reynoso’s father. Mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole could be the outcome for Lopez for the heinous nature of the crimes if convicted. Lopez is considered a known gang member with a prior record. Due to his gang membership, Lopez’s family banned him from returning unless his lifestyle changed. The Reynoso’s family was amiable and let Lopez live…

candidates who enter the candidacy as an independent eventually move into the democratic or republican parties depending on which side most their beliefs lay. I have chosen to write about Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders and Republican nominee Marco Rubio. Marco…

Voyage to the Continents Below Being less known than Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo doesn’t make anyone less important. The Age of Exploration is a time period that occurred in the 1400s where many European countries set out in search for gold (land, resources, precious metals, spices, etc.), glory, and religious purposes (to spread Christianity and to do what God wants you to do). During this time period, new sea routes and continents were identified, including the Americas. Explorers…

This review is a stretch of Marcos Bernardes de Mello's work, "Theory of Legal Fact: plane of existence." In the first part, they are treated different views on the concept of legal fact, especially of Savigny and Miranda bridges. Great emphasis was given to the discussion of the legal fact classification criteria. Mello begins his presentation by approaches that considered unscientific, is the study of the cause from the consequence, or by ineffectiveness cover the wide range of existing legal…

The Different Meanings of Power Marco Polo, Niccolò Machiavelli, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Olaudah Equiano, and the Signatories of The Declaration of Independence define ideas of power and difference through their personal narratives or texts and the intentions of their writings. Primary sources that will be explored in this essay are Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) translated by Thomas Wright and William Marsden, the Venetian, Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) translated by W.K.…

"I have not told the half of what I saw..."-Marco Polo. “The Age of Exploration is a world history period from 1400 to 1600 in which Europeans traveled the rest of the world in search of goods, raw materials, land, and trade partners.”(University of Cambridge) The Age of Exploration was a time when many explorers such as Marco Polo seen many things people hadn’t discovered or wrote about yet. Marco Polo was a Venetian journalist and explorer who sailed first to China, which was under the control…

that the blame was put on Marcos due to the fact that the senator was against his administration and was seeking democracy for the Philippines. The same goes for the rest of the Filipinos particularly in Luzon, especially the family of the senator. Personally, I am not anti nor pro Marcos. Up until now, I do not have a clear stand on it because of the many versions of what “really”…