Without this dissonance, there would have been no African slavery in the Americas. ... But the central question of which peoples from Africa went to a given region of the Americas, and which group of Europeans or their descendants organized such a movement cannot be answered without an understanding of the wind and ocean currents of the North and South Atlantic. There are two systems of wind and ocean currents in the North and South Atlantic that follow the pattern of giant wheels - one lies north of the equator turns clockwise, while its counterpart to the south turns counterclockwise. The...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. Africans were believed to have higher levels of strength and 'humour' than European workers or the N...

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In the United States, Americans were wrestling with the ravages of the Great Depression. ... Americans were not going to be "dragged" into another war by the British. The Depression had bred increased xenophobia and anti-Semitism, and with upward of 30% unemployment in some industrial areas1, many Americans wanted to see immigration halted completely. ... Steel Corporation, was named the chairman of the American delegation. ... In protest, President Roosevelt ordered the American ambassador, Hugh Wilson, to return to Washington, but refused to impose diplomatic or economic sanctions...

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CONTEST Great Britain (England, Scotland and wales) also known as Britain, is an Island situated to north-west of continental Europe. ... It is separated from the continent by the North sea and by the England channel, which narrows to 34km ( 21mi) at the straits of Dover.It stretches over about ten degrees of latitude on its longer, north-south axis, and occupies an area of 209,331km2 (80,823 sq. mi) excluding all the smaller surrounding islands of archipelago. The North Channel, Irish seas George's channel and Celtic sea separate the island from the island of Ireland to its west. ... The...

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They find most resonance in developing countries, and especially those states of Southeast Asia for whom recent economic crises have brought back shades of the north-south contest between the developed and developing world that dominated the international agenda in the 1970s but largely disappeared throughout the 1980s and 1990s. ...

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To the north summers are mild; winters can be cool and damp - with rain most common in autumn and spring. ... Italy is situated in Europe and attached in the north to the European mainland. ... I found this particularly strange as it is very different in America but is known to be very common in Rome. ...

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The intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Practice During Spring Semester 2009, I taught the course "English 303: Short Stories" designed to introduce students to the short fiction of pre-modern and modern periods through short stories of England, Europe and Americas. ... The practical problem we faced in terms of choosing short stories by writers of Europe, England and America is enormous. ... While I wanted to stick to my own list, some of my students were in favour of including short stories from other regions such as South Asia, Africa, Latin America and...

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The area(s) that can be included under the term ˜Orient' can of course be debated, but for the simplicity sake of this paper, will refer mainly to the Middle East and North Africa. Said, a Palestinian-American, knows full well of these repercussions and made many ground-breaking claims about just how powerful Western influence has been on these areas in his book. ... Yet, the United States is still the hegemonic state in the West carrying the burden of colonization, and is most certainly equally responsible for Western influence that has rattled the Middle East and North Africa tod...

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Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of Russian empire and the associated famine of 1921 many refugees fled to mostly France and Germany .others who could not make i...

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One main theme I have learned in studying history is that there have been many "panics" in communities large and small regarding certain events concerning social order. One of the first of these panics involving alcohol and its social vices began around 1700 and ended approximately 4 decades later. Whenever a new type of beverage entered Europe and became popular it was only time until certain classes would be associated with these drinks. Seeing as there have always been social divisions between classes there have also existed a hierarchy in alcohol and its social consumptions. In the case of...

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This can be described in the following way: the ice at the Pole caps – the North Pole and the South Pole – will begin to melt as a result of this global warming and causing the level of the oceans to rise, and this, in turn, will flood low-lying coastal areas in various parts of the world, thereby, not only causing disaster to people who live there but also depriving man of some of the soil – the earth he needs to grow his food on. ... Nuclear war was what it was feared, would wipe out mankind because if there were a war and nuclear weapons were used and rockets with the nucl...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, such as the Springfield rifle, which was considerably inferior to the Lee-En...

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One factor in this might be that the energy security issue as a whole is not as attractive to writers as other topical subjects as the former energy commissioner of EU Andris Piebalgs says: "They tend to forget or fail to appreciate the importance of energy and mutual future security issues even though they are at the forefront of the new European security agenda. " One other reason for this could be that the idea of Turkey being the fourth energy corridor for Europe after Russia, Norway and North Africa, is quite a new initiative and the work on this subject is just being produced. ...

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