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    one person to remember. Do you think should we celebrate everyone’s achievements? Zheng He, was a Chinese explorer, who’s exploration documents were almost removed from history when the Chinese burned all of them. His ships were huge and took a lot of time, money, and people to build and run the ships. During his adventure He never traveled to America, although people say that he opened China up to trading. Zheng He was the first overseas Chinese explorer. His fleet and ships were amazingly…

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    1. Describe the voyages of Zheng He. How did he contribute to the spread of Chinese culture? As Henry (2002) asserts, Zheng He was a Chinese explorer, who helped in extending the maritime as well as the economic influence of the Chinese people through all the regions bordering the Indian Ocean. Zheng He force in developing the Chinese culture was captivating as he commanded seven major naval expeditions, almost one century before the Europeans precisely the Portuguese arrived India, via the tip…

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    How Did Zheng He Voyages

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    Zheng He was Chinese admiral who sailed across the western seas from China to the east coast of Africa and other points in the Indian Ocean. He was captured as a prisoner at the age of ten, after watching his father die at the hands of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China for nearly 300 years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth century. As a prisoner, Zheng He, whose former name was Ma He was forced to join the thousands of…

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    naval leaders such as Columbus and Zheng He. Although Columbus and Zheng He set out working for expansion, the two had different sailing cultures and indigenous interactions which determined their success. The fourteen hundreds were a time of exploration. Voyages from all over the world were taking place and new discoveries were being found. During this time, the Age of Exploration, voyages set out from both China and Spain with leaders…

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    Columbus and Zheng He described their encounters with unfamiliar societies? This is an easy question. Both of these men were from different places but both of them acted in similar ways. They saw what was valuable and pleasing to them that the natives had no interest in. They took over the foreign land for both divinity and for their leaders. Beyond that these two people knew they were superior to the natives of their time. Columbus describes how the natives treated him as a god, while Zheng He…

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    forever. This is because Zheng He, Chinese explorer, and fleet commander, was born. His early history and naval expeditions are what make him so significant to ancient China's history. Zheng He was born into a Hui, a Chinese Muslim family, as Ma Sanbao. Instead of practicing Buddhism, Daoism, or Confucianism, Zheng's family worshiped Allah. At the age of ten, the last Mongol hold was re-conquered by China. Ma was captured and sent to the army to become an orderly. There he made many…

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    rested, which was a relief because he had been plagued with nightmares the night before. He dreamt about dark shapes and felt so afraid in his bed. However, he couldn’t go to his mom because he was seven years old now, and that practically made him an adult; and everyone knew that adults don’t go crying to their mommies if they have nightmares. He shuddered at the memory of his nightmares and shoved the thoughts away. He skipped down the hall, nose in the air, as he followed the delicious aroma…

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    His is a man with bulky body but he thinks himself a looser. The story starts with the new admitted patients named with Randle McMurphy. McMurphy is full of life. He is smart, intelligent and believes that live is short so enjoy as more as you can. He comes in the asylum like a wind that stirs the life of all the patients there. He is rebellious, and caring at the same time. Other patients are scared. They are weak mentally. Protagonists…

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    middle school and he saw all his old friends and made some new friends. Just like all of us he was nervous to start a new chapter of his life. The first couple of weeks were really fun and mellow. He would bring allot of snacks and money to school, and he would share with everyone. If anyone in his class ever needed anything he would be there to help them. That was the person his parents had raised him to be. He had allot of friends and allot of people liked him. He was the nice…

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    tangible reality is what causes them the most pain. Throughout Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, Mary-Anne, Mark Fossie’s girlfriend, changes to a girl shaped by war and combat, while Fossie becomes more and more uncomfortable with her behavior, until he finally snaps at her. Mary-Anne’s behavior then becomes more refined and subdued, similar to how she acted before the war, and Fossie acts “as if nothing had ever come between them, or ever could, but there was a fragility to it, something…

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