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When Olaudah Equiano published his narrative in 1789, Britain was already in the early stages of its fight for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Abolition groups were starting to form, and legislation was beginning to be introduced in the House of Commons, but there was still a lack of a fundamental foundation that was needed to push the fight for abolition to the next level. Enter Equiano, who’s harrowing narrative of his life as a slave and his later fight for freedom even after he…

Case Citation: Bratton et. al. v. McDonough 91 A. 3d 1050 (2014) Background of Case: This is a civil case. It was tried by jury on July 16, 2012 in the State of Maine Superior Court of Somerset County. The jury found for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. The case was decided on May 6, 2014. Facts: The plaintiffs in this case are Paula Bratton, Daniel Hills Sr., and their three children (represented by their parents). The defendant is Halsey McDonough.…

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born on May 11th, 1932 in Voghera, Italy. Valentino's parents were Mauro Garavani (father), a director of a technical supply company and Teresa de Biaggi (mother), a housewife. Valentino found a love for fashion at a very young age. He was only in primary school when he started working for his aunt Rosa and Ernestina Salvadeo who were both local fashion designers in Voghera, Italy. In an interview Valentino said, "Even as a young boy my passion was to…

• Seven Years’ War breaks out in Europe from 1756-1763 • Was a global war, fought on five continents, one of the first global war • Prussia and Great Britain fought France and Austria, but Native Americans played a big role throughout the war • Britain had Americans sided with them, but the Natives supported both France & Britain • War took place in continental U.S., the Caribbean Sea, the coast of Africa as well as India • War started due to British colonists wanting to expand into the west…

Demand is the “total quantity customers are willing and able to purchase” (Shah, 2017)1, looking at the price elasticity of demand determines how much a product is priced and how responsive demand is to the change of that price. For example, 500 people will be willing to pay £15 for a concert ticket, however if the price of the ticket was increased to £25, then only 250 people would be willing to pay. This can be shown using a demand curve, which is based upon the principle that if the price of…

1) Question: Did the airports take any action after they received the news that the first plane crashed to stop the second plane? What did they do? How did it benefit the situation? If they didn’t, why didn’t they? Reason: I had selected this question from all the other questions because the answer to this question would state the thoughts of people. For example, some people may have stood frozen in shock, while others were reacting quickly. Furthermore, from the individuals who watched the…

to change their mindsets and adopt a new set of values through his voistrous writing that focused on his liberal beliefs. John Locke was the first-born child to John Locke Sr. and Agnes Keene Locke. Locke was born on August 29, 1632 in Wrighton, Somerset, England and was raised in a town called Pensford. His father was a lawyer and landowner and fought during the English Civil War in 1640. In 1647, Locke began attending Westminster School, an elite school in London, because of connections his…

Pedro Almodovar’s twentieth feature film, Julieta, chronicles the title character’s life as she is forced to reflect upon her riddled past and confront the tragic circumstances that surround the disappearance of her daughter. Almodovar based Julieta off of a series of short stories written by Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro, which follow three stages of a Canadian woman’s life who faces similar circumstances. At it’s conception, Julieta was intended to be Almodovar 's first…

Before the Great Awakening, Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, a German pastor’s son, born on November 6, 1692 in Lingen, Germany answered the call to theology. Shortly thereafter, whether answering a call from God, or at the urging of the Reverend Sicco Tjady, Frelinghuysen came to America, because the Dutch population needed ministers,/ along with his wife Eva Terhune, a farmer 's daughter; and five sons that all entered the ministry, and two daughters that married clergymen./ Frelinghuysen’s…

During the 16th century, composers focused mainly on church music since the Renaissance in England started much later than in the rest of Europe. The most popular secular music style was the partsong until innovative composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd paved way beyond three- and four-part homophonic pieces. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585) and William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623) were versatile composers who wrote for the Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan churches alike. Tallis, best known…