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According to McKay et al (2011), “the atlantic slave trade grew enormously as colonial plantations used slaves to produce commodities for trade.... Atlantic Slave Trade was a direct consequence of the practice of slavery that existed in Medieval Europe and the colonial world.... Atlantic Slave Trade was a direct consequence of the practice of slavery that existed in Medieval Europe and the colonial world.... Discussion As Christopher Columbus had discovered the New world, Europeans began to migrate towards the West in the search of fortune....
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Book Review: The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World Sagas of sea wars and piracy of ships crossing Mediterranean waters have long been a readers' delight.... But the author has shown his inimitable style of narrating the attributes of how a political and military discomfort reaching the religious conflicts between Christian dominant U S A and the Muslim held Arab world.... The coalition of British Royal Navy was initially a great factor for the protection of american merchant ships....
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The conflicting forces of the Union – the anti-slavery and abolitionist North, and the Confederates – the pro-slavery and white supremacist South, scarred the annals of American past and challenged the notion of liberty and equality as promised in the Declaration of independence in 1776.... The victory of the Democratic Party's Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Elections against the Republican Party's nominee Senator John McCain was considered as a monumental feat in the history of american politics....
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On the other hand, the world's population was stratified along racial lines.... Long before the coming of Europeans, Indians and blacks were brought in as slaves, and this brought about a world mixture of population.... In as much as they were divided, the blacks fought for independence as a unit.... This happened because some of the dark people declined assimilation; thus, maintaining their status quo leading to the idea to fight for independence....
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These are the fundamental factors that lead to the transformation of the old world according to the historical fundamentals into the so called new world and hence the atlantic world.... The creation of the atlantic world was also characterized by the creation of the empires.... Increased commerce also became the cause of the increase in slavery in the Americas hence the growth in slave trade between the European America and Africa and these draws us to the fact that the atlantic world was not only inclusion of the Europe and America but also Africa (Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus 2000 pg....
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This paper "The American Nation - Christianized or Enlightened" focuses on the fact that between 1607-1733, inhabitants from England instituted 13 colonies on the atlantic Coast of North America.... nbsp; The American Nation: Christianized or Enlightened Between 1607 and 1733, inhabitants from England instituted thirteen colonies on the atlantic Coast of North America.... In 1776 the colonies that became the United States of America were peopled by groups of individuals possessed with religious fervor who traversed the atlantic to search for a place where they can practice their faith unadulterated....
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Both Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair have had a checkered history of operations in intra-continental and inter-continental markets in the world.... The author compares the management styles of Ryanair and Virgin atlantic and states that Virgin atlantic as against Ryanair has adopted a more customer-centric employee-friendly democratic management style.... While Ryanair is a low-cost no-frills airline that caters to the low budget passenger, Virgin atlantic operates in the long haul market with all its resources being concentrated on major transatlantic routes and others from Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport in London....
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hellip; The literature is unanimous in some aspects of American culture that relate to independence, meritocracy, self-initiative, privacy, freedom of religion, informality, egalitarianism/equality, honesty and being direct/being open, focus on the efficient and practical, pragmatism, environmental control by individuals, control of time, embrace of change, competition, and helping oneself, among others.... First from an intuitive sense one can grasp how Zen, with an emphasis on being able to rely on one's faculties and initiative to attain liberation or enlightenment, touches on some very vital American values relating to independence....
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