Shipbuilding

Robert Pringle Informed his brother of the impending arrival of 30 barrels of illicit gunpowder immediately after informing him about the location of a naval patrol with a “strong squadron and a great number of troops on board.” Henry Laurens was quick to suggest illicit trade to a few of his trusted business relations, albeit in far more cautious terms. In a letter to Captain Thomas Osborne of the schooner Jolly Batchelor, Laurens stated that “ you and I both know that some branches of…

America the Story of Us Episode 1: Rebels In May of 1610 a ship named “The Deliverance” was making its way towards America. Young English farmers were upon this ship taking the treacherous journey in search of a new life. The majority of the common people will not make it to see the land of the free. But that does not shift the people's persuasion in the chance of opportunity. Land, wilderness, gems, and more are laid throughout the America’s waiting to be claimed. Ten years later new…

Proverbs 19:1 states, “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool” (New American Standard Bible). Ethics has everything to do with integrity and deciding what is right or wrong. This is very important in business ethics because it is easily to conform to the ways of other people within the organization and not standing form on one’s own morals and values. The following research will discuss the organization that I currently work for, a credit…

Early Society in Southwest Asia and the Indo-European Migrations During the fourth millennium population increased in Mesopotamia. Inhabitants had a few presidents who would guide them. These people had to find a way to keep order so they experimented and adapted once again. This was when people created city states which brought political and social order to their territories. Effective political and military organization enabled them to build regional empires. In the sixth millennium Sumer…

responsible for forging Russia’s first navy and reorganizing the army based on the Western standards he observed. Peter personally recruited foreigners to the positions of generals and officers. These foreigners had to be experts of all fields- including shipbuilding, military affairs, the sciences, and the arts. This military force became helpful to the success of the Northern War (1700-1721) with Sweden. The victory finally gave Peter acess to the warm-water port, the Baltic Sea, that he so…

In the early seventeenth century, the Virginia Company of London was granted a charter for land in the New World, allowing England to stake its claim in the New World. This would sow the seed that would allow the Chesapeake colonies to burgeon. Likewise, in 1620, Pilgrims arrived in New England and formed Plymouth, which paved the path for New England colonies to emerge. Though sprouting at roughly the same time, these two colony groupings were incredibly idiosyncratic in comparison to each…

of resources involves the Spanish colonization efforts of the Philippines in the sixteenth century. The Spanish took advantage of the surplus and durability of timber such as molave, lanang, and laguan in order to generate a monopoly on Galleon shipbuilding (McCarty,124). They also utilized the local Indio population’s superior “knowledge and skill in ship design” (123). A similar form of exploitation can also be seen through in the debate over the DAPL. The US government is attempting to “to…

Roberto Clemente once said "Anytime you have an opportunity to make a difference in the world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on this earth". Roberto Clemente a very important baseball player from Pittsburgh once said this quote. Pittsburgh is a great American city that continues to make a difference in our world. While Pittsburgh is famous for many of the athletes there many do not know the true facts on Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is important for several different things , most…

An Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Empirical Spain The European continent as a whole boasts an impressive list of nations and cultures of times past and present that dominated the world. One nation in particular, Spain, held a fairly impressive empire worth noting from the Fifteenth century to roughly the late Seventeenth, early eighteenth century. What is important about each Empire that the world has seen is what allowed it to become an empire; what allowed the nation to prosper and expand,…

Capital Moves : Industrialization Workers worldwide depend on their employers to provide a fundamental salary that is directly dependent upon the particular industry's labor standards, benefits, and risk involved with the profession being performed. Throughout history and during the current global era, corporate capitalistic companies have been the leading employers for a multitude of people and or citizens in a particular geographic area. Within Jefferson Cowie’s “Capital Moves”, readers are…