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cancelled. Everything in the rooms is designed and thought out in order to preserve the maximum space. It features ultra-modern technology and has a non-stop snack bar. Each compact cabin has a flat-screen TV and a work station. A bathroom with a monsoon shower and free toiletries and hygiene products. The 24 hours automated counters provide customers self-service for customers, in that case customers don’t need to wait for the long process to check in/ check out. This airline hotel concept…

Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War has a continuing theme that people are not capable of truly understanding the atrocities that happen during war unless they experience them for themselves; furthermore, preparing soldiers for these tragedies that they will encounter is impossible. Though this is true in all wars, the Vietnam War is unique, because these aspects were present in the most extreme way. This led to Vietnam impacting soldiers in a way that other wars never had. Caputo provides examples…

A virus is a very small pathogenic antigen that requires a host cell to replicate to cause harm. The virus can attach itself to several kinds of living host such as plants, animals, bacteria and archaea. Although there is some exception, virus is very specific when it comes to appending a host. Animal virus only affects animals, same goes with archaea, bacteria and plant viruses. One specific virus that is endemic to countries near the equator is the dengue virus. DENV or dengue virus, is…

Tim O’Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1st, 1946. His mother was an elementary school teacher, his father an insurance salesman, and he had a younger sister and brother. His mother taught his the mechanics of writing while his father encouraged reading. His father was an alcoholic, and mercilessly teased young O’Brien. O’Brien found comfort in baseball and in performing magic. In the article “Tim Obrien (1946 - )” it states, “O’Brien… moved at the age of ten with his family to…

From the time I was 13 until I went into the army, I was his punching bag. As I drank, I wished that he had lived long enough for me to reach manhood, but when I became a man, I was patrolling the Delta in Nam, and the monsoons drenched everything I had but the anger in my soul. Yes … Bao was the lucky one. By dying my dead kept me from evening the score. I wondered if I made the right choice. I guess it didn’t matter. I survived him and the war. Tonight I returned home…

get to their destinations quicker as well as return home quicker. Another technology that promoted growth of trade were ships that could sail against the wind like lateens. This allowed trade in southern Asia to continue year round, not limited to monsoon season. One innovation that helped agriculture was the introduction of the three-field system where farmers would rotate their crops across three fields in order to preserve some of the nutrients in the ground. This practice was thought of and…

1. The Silk Road came into being partially due to the Parthians, Chinese General Zhang Jian, and trade with the nomads. The Parthians were a dynasty established by a nomadic leader in order to avoid the Seleucid kings’ control after Alexander the Great’s empire. It helped establish the Silk Road because it was located at the threshold of Central Asia and it shared customs and traded with nomads to the east. In 228 B.C.E., Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty sent general Zhang Jian across Inner Asia to…

Back in America the anti-war movement grew stronger and stronger as the war continued. As the war raged on and countless more American lives were lost without seemingly any more hope of victory the popular support for the war drastically shrunk. Also as more and more people were exposed to the atrocities and savagery that was happening across the sea in Vietnam, the people of the United States began to realize how wrong the war really was. Soldiers would even refuse to report to their service…

Introduction Now a days we are experiencing some changes in our climate. Unfortunately in the intervening years, time has not stood still in the global environment the pace of destruction has worsen and the urgent need for a response has grown more acute. The relationship between human civilization and the earth has been utterly transformed by a combination of factors including the population explosion technological revolution and a willingness to ignore the future consequence of our presence…

Jainism Religion Jainism was born in India in the 6th century B.C, making it one of the oldest religions in the world (Religion Facts). Although it is little known outside of India, it has played a huge role to other religions. This ancient religion has influenced both Hinduism and Buddhism, therefore they all share similar cultures. However, there are some factors that separate Jainism from the rest while also influencing them. Jainism’s belief and living, compassionate practices, and symbols:…