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My understanding of the book Candide by Voltaire was deepened through the IO presentation of the book. The discussion included the enlightenment period, different variety of philosophers and the social classes in France. The enlightenment period begins with the scientific revolution. During the revolution, many unusual philosophies made its debut, and people think that those philosophies are going guide people into a more preferable life. Apparently that’s not true, because in the novella, the…

Located in far southwestern Europe Spain is geographically positioned in the northern, as well as the eastern and western hemispheres. Spain is bordered by the countries of Andorra, France and Portugal, and the British colony of Gibraltar. Spain is mostly an urban population with a percentage of 79.6%. The capital of spain is Madrid and Barcelona. The general geography of Spain is the Meseta Plateau which is rarely flat, and is in reality a mostly…

I believe that America would be better off if fewer citizens went to prison due to the high cost of prison funding, and our inequitable justice system. Since the 1980’s, national investments have spent triple the amount of money on prison than on education. This is due to the large amount of prisoners and costs it takes to care for each one. Nationally, it costs ninety-five hundred dollars per public school student to get a proper education, yet it costs forty-three thousand dollars per prisoner…

In chapter one said that archaeologists and historians study how people lived in the past. But they also tell that archaeologists and historians use different methods to learn and obtain information from the past.Historians based more directly to letters and diary entries, and in enormous variety of public documents, such as laws speeches, newspapers, and court cases. In the other hand, archaeologists tend to focus more on physical objects such as bones, spear points, pots, baskets, jewelry,…

experimental Portuguese project composed of Renato Diz on piano, Sergio Tavares on double bass, and Jorge Queijo on drums and percussion. Despite the plans regarding this project had started in 2009, only recently the band members have reunited in Portugal to record their debut album, Poetics of Sight, strongly influenced by film and released on the W&J Productions, a new record label from New York. Using imaginative techniques and resorting to unconventional sounds, the trio breaks the barriers…

among all commercial families (Mangin). In the mid-1470 's, Columbus attended in a trading expedition to the island of Chios, a Genoese possession in the Aegean Sea (Mangin). In 1476, he lived in a Genoese colony in Lisbon, Portugal (Edward 8). According to legend, he went to Portugal by swimming ashore holding onto an oar after being attacked by pirates In Lisbon, Columbus drew and sold maps with his brother Bartholomew (Mangin). Later, his father failed in business and died (Pennington). This…

who dominated the political landscape across Europe for much of the Medieval ages and throughout the Renaissance. The Hapsburg family ruled a large variety of different nations throughout its reign, including the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Hungary-Croatia, colonial possessions in the New World, and other nations. The Hapsburgs were an incredibly powerful royal house throughout the ages that would forever shape the world and European continent with their rulers, fights,…

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in the world and became one of the first global empires in world history. The Empire had its ups and downs but for the most part, it was constantly making progress. During the 15th and 16th centuries, Columbus and the Pinzon brothers set sail west and ended up in the Bahamas. Later, Diego Columbus established the first secure Spanish colony at Santo Domingo. In 1515, The Spanish complete the conquest of Cuba and establish the town of Havana. The…

As the demands increased, other countries started pursuing the way to have their own plantations of coffee to grow and export coffee. Trade was why tea was important to China’s economy and countries like Britain and Portugal imported tea. Because China became an important place for trade, many countries were fighting over the rights to place ports in China to guarantee tea trade. Tea changed history in India because it gave people in India jobs and introduced India…

Segal presents two scriptural texts, Ezekiel 37:1-10 and Daniel 12:1-3, as the representative examples to show how Judeans formed a concept of resurrection. At first, he argues that Ezekiel symbolically used a metaphor of resurrection to manifest Israelites’ renewal achieved by God (256). For him, although Ezekiel’s prophecy is not about the literal meaning of resurrection, it is very meaningful because it first introduced the image of resurrection to Israelites (257). In addition, he asserts…