Silk

How many sailors or those who might perish in this discovery or conquest walked through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal? Almost two hundred sailors walked through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal to ask God to forgive them. Where did Da Gama sail? “His ship rounded the southern tip of Africa, and entered the Indian Ocean.” Who sponsored him to find a route? “King Manuel the 1st of Portugal asked Da Gama to find a sea route to India.” My paper is going to be about some of the routes Vasco…

in my show. My magic performance is a mixture of family entertainment. But I have a segment I set up especially for kids. I use “Fishy Business” (a multi silk routine) to share a story. I perform the magic as I tell the story and it ends with a very strong good stranger/bad stranger message. I have another segment where I use three silks: red, white and blue to make the flag. I tell a story as I work the magic and end up with a salute to our veterans. I usually have them stand and…

a good time you could find the mass and use it to slow the parachute down by maybe using something with less mass than a paper-clip for the harness. A parachute is a device usually made of fabric most of the fabrics parachutes are made of is silk and nylon. Another, thing is there are also a many different types of parachutes designed for many different specific applications. Also, parachutes are used for both people and cargo to deliver things to areas which can only be reached by…

identify and explain 3-4 ethics issue (e.g. harm to stakeholder group, relevance of ethics theories, etc.). One of the biggest issues would be approaching to one’s privacy. Privacy and confidentiality include financial, medical, political, governmental and legal issues. The first issue involves not letting the participants know that they have the right to refuse any questions they feel is private. Participants think it is their responsibility and they must answer anything the examiner…

Many Indian women wear a dress called sari, it made out of colorful silk. Sari goes around the waist, with the end it go over the shoulder to cover the chest. Sari look more like a dress made from a big scarf. (“culture Indian”) Each sari are different. On wedding, women wear more of red color silk. For wealthy people, their wedding dress are made out of gold silk. Also on wedding, the bride cover her head with big sheet of silk that is made out of gold. For men, they wear dhoti, sherwani, and…

the gold spinners, and the silk makers produced high quality export goods of great value to the city’s economy and with only a few exceptions, the women of these guilds did so as independent, highly skilled artisans with their own shops, their own apprentices and their own materials” However alike to the cases in England the silk mistresses had typically obtained their positions through their families. Of the 68 most active, all but one were married or widowed, many silk mistresses were married…

Who Would Triumph? Europeans and Japanese never met, but their cultures are very alike. They both had Feudalism systems. Feudalism is a way of ranking people based on how they live their life and how rich they are. In Europe, their feudal system was very similar to the one in Japan. They both had rulers. They both had landowners and land protectors. Both of them also had warriors. Of course, they both had peasants, artisans and merchants. But if Samurai and Knights ever met who would triumph?…

On Friday December the 16th, my friend diego and I went to a holiday concert in Greensboro. To be more specific, it was the Fox 8 Holiday concert, being played at the Greensboro LJVM Coliseum. The Band performing, is the Winston-Salem Symphony. This concert was held, to help feed the hungry and homeless. The Triad used to be number one in hunger in the nation, but this concert and countless other charities and efforts have helped to bring the number of homeless and hungry down drastically. This…

The Swahili Coast, extending from Somalia to Mozambique, was home to around 30 trading cities that flourished from the 1200s to the 1400s. In the trading cities, products such as gold, ivory, iron, animals, silk, and porcelain were exchanged between the African interior and lands across the sea. These cities were initially established by Arab merchants, resulting in a great amount of lasting cultural influence-- Swahili peoples today (now spread throughout eastern African countries such as Kenya…

limiting their freedom, and murdering them. The Mongols impacted the Chinese positively in 3 main ways. The first way that the Mongols positively impacted the Chinese was by revolutionizing trade with China. The text states, “trade.expanded” and “[the] Silk Road which for the first time linked Europe to Asia, allowing the free flow of ideas, technologies and goods” (Nat Geo 223) (Source 2). This evidence proves how the Mongols revolutionized trade, positively impacting the Chinese. The second…