Captain James Cook‚ FRS‚ RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer‚ navigator‚ cartographer‚ and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean‚ during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands‚ and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy
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A HISTORY OF 16TH CENTURY ENGLAND In the late 15th century England was torn by a series of civil wars between two dynasties‚ the Yorkists and the Lancastrians. The wars ended in 1485 when Henry Tudor won the battle of Bosworth and gained the throne of England. Henry Tudor (1457-1509) was crowned Henry VII on 30 October 1485 beginning a new dynasty. In January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York‚ daughter of Edward IV‚ uniting the dynasties of York and Lancaster. However the Yorkists were unwilling
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I do not believe anything is free‚ but rather things are earned. I should be considered for the ‘free’ membership because my daily actions have earned it. I am the only child of a single mother and my father passed away when I was young‚ nothing in my life has come to me easily‚ I have learned to earn everything I have. I should be considered for this membership without charge because I will be worth the money used. I am a hard working student and spend a lot of my day studying and preparing
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each settlement. Many of the early problems in both settlements can be contributed to a lack of knowledge on the parts of the settlers along with attacks from neighboring Native American tribes. The Jamestown colony was located near present day James City County‚ Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement by the English in what is in current day known as the United States. The location of Jamestown was selected primarily for the fact that it provided a favorable defensive location
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE AN INSIGHT OF IAN FLEMING’S JAMES BOND- WITH REFERENCE TO ‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’. From Russia‚ with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming ’s James Bond series‚ first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957. As with the first four books‚ From Russia‚ with Love was generally well received by the critics. The story was written at Fleming ’s Golden eye estate in Jamaica in early 1956. By the time the book was published‚ he did not know whether he wanted
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day King Minos was a very powerful man. This one town called Athens and every year he would go to war with them. So they made a deal with the king that if he stopped the war with them they would 7 kids every year to his maze where he had his monster very hungry for humans. So the King liked the deal and went on with it and said yes. That was a very sad day for the Athens and cried every year when they had to send 7 kids who tried to kill this monster but never came back. So one says the Kings son
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"I want to make them free thinkers" says Mr Keating to Mr McAllister. This essay will define the meaning of "free thinker"‚ its importance to the young men of Mr Keating’s class‚ the meaning of Mr Keating’s statement and finally the different impacts that this new way of thinking has on the boys. A "Freethinker" as defined by The Macquarie Dictionary is "someone who forms their opinions independently of authority or tradition‚ especially in matters of religion". Therefore a free thinker is someone
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We Demand Independence Now! Dear King George III‚ You have caused us all pain and suffering. Your ignorance and inequality has greatly affected our lives. The horrible acts you put on us gave us reason to be infuriated. We have decided that there is only one solution. We‚ the colonists‚ will declare independence and break away from the ever vicious hold of Britain. We have the right to be enraged because your commands are overwhelming. You have placed tax after tax on our community. We were not
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Like his close friend Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison came from a prosperous family of Virginia planters‚ received an excellent education‚ and studied law though only informally and quickly found himself drawn into the debates over independence. In 1776‚ he became a delegate to the revolutionary Virginia Convention‚ where he worked closely with Thomas Jefferson to push through religious freedom statutes‚ among other liberal measures. The youngest member of the Continental Congress‚ Madison was
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Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition‚ but one simple definition to sum it up is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. The law affects politics‚ economics and society in various ways and serves as a social arbitrator or intermediates of relations between people. Ethics according to Miriam Webster’s dictionary on the other hand can be defined as a system of moral principles. Our key word being
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