In comparison the Nina (Columbus’s biggest ship) was a mere 90 by 30 feet. The size of the Chinese ships at this time was what the Europeans conjured up in the Victorian era over 2 centuries later. Simply in knowing that you could say that the Chinese were equipped well enough to make it across the Pacific. This plus Chinese advanced maritime skills and archeological finds supporting even earlier voyages all the way to Easter Island. Saying that is based on opinion and assumptions, so here’s the proof an amateur historian, found detailed maps, logs and accounts of voyages to the Americas in the early 1400’s.
Zhilong Richard Chen History 2302 Professor: M. Jamal Jamil Data: Nov. 23, 2011 Richard M. Nixon Richard M. Nixon was the 37th president of United States. Most people know about former President Richard Nixon who was related to the Water Gate scandal, and the only president forced to resign. However, based on Nixon’s achievements in foreign policy, domestic economic policy, human rights and social programs, Nixon should be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in United States history. Nixon was born to a poor family in California. Because of his family’s economy status and his sick brothers, Nixon had to give up on Harvard University and had to become a Duke University law student.
Samantha Martin The news article I chose to compare and contrast is the release of George Zimmerman. If you have been keeping up with the news you know that Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26th as he walked home from the store after purchasing a soda and a bag of Skittles. Today April 23, 2012 Zimmerman was released on 15,000 dollars bond witch was ten percent of the 150,000 dollar bond set by the judge earlier this week. Msnbc.com has video coverage of Zimmerman walking out of jail escorted by police clutching a brown paper bag. The links on this site are very useful if you want to follow the story from the beginning.
The design, which took a full decade to select and build, features two huge pools in the shape of the Trade Center towers, lined by waterfalls and descending into the site. Victims' names are etched in bronze around the edge of the pools. The Flight 93 Memorial, still incomplete, features a memorial wall along the edge of the crash site engraved with the names of the flight's 40 crewmembers and passengers. A gate allows family members to visit the "sacred ground" of the crash site. The memorials' opening brought a symbolic end to a decade-long debate over how to physically commemorate 9/11, and brought obvious comfort to many of the bereaved.
to forge military alliances with kingdoms west of his northwestern archenemy the Xiongnu (or Hun) tribes. He charged General Zhang Qian with this mission, giving him one hundred of his best fighting men and valuable gifts to seal the military cabals. Thirteen years later, having been a Xiongnu hostage for ten years, General Zhang returned to the Imperial Han court with only one other member of the original party. Though he had failed to make a single military alliance, General Zhang enthralled the court with information of the thirty-six commercially vibrant kingdoms west of China's frontier. Compounding the Emperor's interest was his description of the magnificent horses he'd seen in the Ferghana valley (modern day Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan); horses that were stronger and faster than any in China, horses so fine as to render the Chinese army
63, 2000) His father arrived to America in 1922, and passed away a year before Vincent Chin's passing. He served in the army, therefore granting him access to bring home a Chinese bride. Him and his wife adopted Vincent Chin (age 6) from Guangdong providence in China. Many Chinese-Americans were also from the Guangdong providence in China. Vincent grew up to be a great man, who was unfairly targeted and beaten to death.
One of my first reasons why the loyalists had it worse than the Chinese was in 1783 when most were exiled from their own land. First fight in 1775 the loyalists and their families were beaten, sent to jail and forced to leave, their property was systematically token away for the benefit of the revolution. Once the war was done more then 100 000 loyal exiles were gathered in small enclosures of the Thirteen Colonies that were still protected by the loyalist troops and by the British.
They ended up throwing 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. They did this because British made a new tax on tea and gave a monopoly on all tea to the British East India Company. Because of this event, England became upset with the colonists and passes the Intolerable acts. Another major cause to the Revolution
• He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1990 • Since 1984, the Chinese Canadian National Council had been urging the federal government to compensate surviving Chinese immigrants who were forced to pay the head tax • In the case of Mack v. Canada, the plaintiffs sought reimbursement for the head taxes paid, plus interest and damages for pain and suffering. • The claim amounted to 23 million of head-tax revenues collected during the time. • They felt that the government of Canada was “unjustly enriched” • They were unable to succeed in their argument of just enrichment • The Ontario Court of Appeal agreed with the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that the statement of claim “disclosed no reasonable cause of action” • The case then appealed to the Supreme Court but left with their appeal denied in April 2003 • The aftermath or WW1 exposed human rights violations and discriminations worldwide. • The creation of the United Nations and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights were to influence the development of Canadian rights legislation • In 1947., Chinese Canadians were given the right to vote in federal and provincial
This changed in 1888 when the Scot Act made those papers invalid. At the time that the act was put into place, twenty thousand Chinese-Americans were in china and were not allowed to return to the U.S. because their papers were no longer legal. The Exclusion Act was renewed in 1892 and had a new stipulation – the Chinese had to have identity papers. If they were caught without the document on them, they faced arrest and