Duncan and Arla

Duncan and Arla

Duncan and Arla are cities. They are somewhere in the world. Duncan and Arla both have different houses and similarities.

Duncan is a city. It has many houses, in Duncan their houses are made by bricks. And they have 2 bedrooms, one bath, one living room, a carpot and a very big backyard. The march heating in Duncan's houses are very cheap it cost $40 dollars. However, their houses are very expensive it cost $90,000 dollars.

Arla is also a city somewhere in the world. Houses in Arla are made by wood that is needed to paint. So having a house in Duncan is better than having a house in Arla, because houses in Arla are made by wood and it has no backyard and the march heating in Arla is more expensive than the march heating in Duncan. In Arla the march heating cost $120 dollars. But they both have the same prices for their houses and similar rooms, and carpots and both houses cost $90.000 dollars.

Houses in Duncan and Arla are both good to living, because they are both cities and they both maybe have the same education for their kids and a cool wether.

The Opium Wars

The Opium Wars conflict which ushered in a century of enforced exploitation of China, and a still emotive symbol for Chinese resentment of the West. Four decades of mutual misunderstanding and disrespect meant that reciprocal humiliations in 1839-40 related to the illegal opium trade the confiscation of Britons' property, their enforced expulsion from Macao, and outsiders' refusal to pay even lip-service to Chinese edicts). This was lit in September 1840 when Chinese attempts to stop supplies reaching a refugee flotilla off Hong Kong ended with the sinking of four war junks by the Royal Navy. A letter of protest was sent to Peking, underlined by the blockade of Canton and the occupation of Chusan. The emperor repudiated the subsequent Convention of Chuenpi, signed by his representatives on 20 January 1841, for giving away too much, and prepared for war. The British—commanded surprisingly effectively by a naval/military/civil committee—struck pre-emptively, eventually occupying the heights commandinge Canton, from which they withdrew on payment of $6 million. The British attacked Amoy in August and went into winter quarters at Ningpo and Chinhai, where they easily repelled attacks in the spring. Counter-attacking, they seized the forts guarding Hangchow, occupied Shanghai in June, and marched to the gates of Nanking. British demands were now more intransigent and imperial commissioners could only obtain terms far more severe than those of the 1841 Convention. The Treaty of Nanking gave Britain $21 million, the right to trade in five ports (opium was not mentioned), legal jurisdiction over her own nationals, and the island of Hong Kong. Humiliatingly one-sided, the war provided a little-heeded wake-up call to the complacent imperial Manchu court.

advantages and disadvantages of reading

advantages and disadvantages of reading
Reading an hour everyday has advantages and disadvantages.

The Advantages of Reading
There are many good reasons for learning how to read. Many people think that it is not important to know how to read. There are also those of us who know the importance of reading abilitie. So, I believe whenever you have the opportunity to better your reading skills you should take that opportunity. If you do it will be better for your chances of success in life.
There are many reasons reading is necessary in life. Without having a good reading capability there will be a limited amount of opportunity. In order to have unlimited opportunities you have to be able to read. The reason you have to know how to read is so that you may be able to find a good job. The reason we need good jobs is because with a good job we are able to get things we need or that we may want. Without good reading skills you prevent yourself from the privileges that life has to offer.
The disadvantages of reading
There are many bad reason of disadvantages of reading. Because reading to much can destroy your brain.

compare and contrast Malcolmx and Martin luther

Malcolm and Martin were africain-americain leaders. But they both lived in differents environments, differents education and differents appearance.


Malcomlx was an american black muslim minister and a one time spokesman for the nation of islam. He was very tall. He always wear glosses. He came from an under privilaged home. However, he was a man that taught himself how to read and write and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Malcolm was a muslim, minister and spokesman at the same time for muslims and a man that wanted to fight by force.

Martin Luther King was born into a familly whose name in Atlanta was well established. But they belonged to different religions and what they had different views. He was raised in a comfortable middle class where education was stressed. Martin was a christian and one of the main leaders of the american civil right movements. He was a minister, by trainning a became a civil right activist early in his career. Martin was basically a peaceful leader who argued non violence to his followers.

Malcom x and Martin Luther King are both remembered as leaders who fought for a difference in a black america. Both tried to bring hope to blacks in the United States. They both had very different ways to promote their message. Eventhought tehey were different in addressing their message about black respect and pride, but to me they both had the same goal in mind. And that goal was the achieve equality between all races.

the meiji restoration of japan

The Meiji Restoration was the catalyst toward industrialization in Japan that led to the rise of the island nation as a military power by 1905, under the slogan of "Enrich the country, strengthen the military. Japan was a country of isolation. This meant that Japan had no contact or tried to make any contact with other countries outside of Japan.
The division of japan into indepedent domains made it difficult to deal foreigners in a concerted way or to fully mobilize national resources. Thus the Meiji government's first task was to unity the country territorially. In late 1868 the imperial capital was moved to Edo which was renamed Tokyo where the empror took up residence in the Shogun's former castle. In 1869 the daimo and hizen surrendered their lands and census record to the imperial government and asked that their domains laws instutions and regulations be placed under unified control. Other domains soon followed suit. In 1871 all the daimyo domains were abolished by imperial decree and were replaced by a system of centrally administered prefectures governed by imperially appointed officials.
The Japanese were shocked of the technology that the Americans had. They were shocked to see that the Americans had technology such as steam to power their ships. They were also shocked to see the rifles and cannons that the Americans had. The U.S. believed that the Japanese ports would be great for American ships to stop and reload in food and water.
During the Meigi Era many new reformations had taken place. Japan overthrew the whole feudalism system. In 1868, Emperor Mutsushito took back his thrown. He believed that the only way to be equal in economic and political ways of the West was to adopt new ways. Many scholars were sent to the West. They were sent to learn as much from the West and bring back what they had learn.

The Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa began in 1881. And when it began there were some Europeen people from France that moved into Tunis. And later on it took on a full fledged land grab in Africa by European powers. So that is came to be called scramble for Africa.

Pierre Paul Francois was a French explorer who made a name for himself during the scramble for africa during the late 1800's. He helped develop the French Congo. So after that he became a French citizen in 1874, and traveled up the Congo river. Pierre's achievements also led him to fame because they were compared to those of Stanley's by the European press. Pierre' s adventure up the Congo involved many trials and tribulations. In one incident, he had to dismantle his boat in order to forge parts of the river. He overcame this problems in the name of culture, wealth, and Christianity. The people of Europe loved his journey up the Congo because it helped them to romanticize imperialism as a noble conquest.
Theses nations would also take control of the areas because the more land they controlled the more power they had. They would take control of these areas so that other nations of Europe wouldn't.European nations were able to take over Africa easily because of many reasons. Europe not only had their technological advantage but also there persuading on tribes of Africa to take control of their lands.

"Mountains of the Moon"

the term Mountains of the moon reffered to a mountain in central africa. That was a long history about the source of the nile. It was located in East Africa in rwanda. And Richard Burton and some number of expeditions up the nile failed to find the source. Eventually a marchand named diogenes reported that he had traveled inland from rhapta in East africa for twenty-five days and had found the source of Nile. He reported it flowed from a group of massive mountains into a series of large lakes. He reported the natives called this range the Mountains of the Moon because of their snowcapped whiteness. And after all these arguments the reports were accepted as true by someone whose name is Ptolemy and other Greek and Roman geohraphers, and maps he produced indicated the reported location of the mountains. Late Arab geographers, despite having far more knowledge of Africa, also took the report at face value, and included the mountains in the same location given by Ptolemy. The fact that the source of the Nile River which is the 3rd largest lake in the world is called Lake Victoria. Even thought the Lake is in Africa it is named after queen Victoria of Europe. The source was no part of Europe and still it was named after queen Victoria because the modern world believed that they discovered it even through it was inhabited by the native people of the Nile. Till this day Lake Victoria is still called Lake Victoria event thought the Europeans don't own it anymore.
In the end it all mattered on who had the technological advantage