When was America named after Amerigo Vespucci? Geography and Exploration: When Europeans arrived in the Americas in the 1490s, the Americas did not yet go by that name. "America" was a name given to these lands by Europeans and it was the explorer Amerigo Vespucci who ultimately donated his...
【题目】Alex Wood began fundraising when h e was fo ur years old. H e sold lemonad e and cookies to rais e money for a school in Haiti. Later, Alex sent 15 bags of food h e collected from his nei ghbors to a food stor e near his hom e which as ked for donations(捐赠)....
The government set up the Federal Art Project to help struggling artists survive the depression, and a sculptor named Augusta Savage got Lawrence a job with the project. For eighteen months, Lawrence was paid a salary to paint pictures. For the first time, he felt like a professional artist....
Bill Clinton, President from January of 1993 to January of 2001, was never involved in a major, long-standing war. However, during his tenure, the army fought a series of brushfire wars and short engagements, some of which were successful but others of which either bogged down or ended in...
In the essay, “When Living is a Fate Worse Than Death,” by Christine Mitchell, is about a suffering baby named Charlotte. She was born with only enough brain cells to breathe and fight off pain. Charlotte’s parents were from Haiti and they wanted Charlotte to survive. They believed if...
On the 28th May, 1961, a British lawyer named Peter Benenson wrote and published an article that began: "Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are una...
The group debated whether to stay. A Cameroonian named George, who had been limping badly, was adamant they should. The Pakistanis wanted to stop as well, but they were outnumbered. As one of the Cameroonians argued, being without food wasn’t “relaxing.” The group needed to keep moving...
On the 28th May, 1961, a British lawyer named Peter Benenson wrote and published an article that began: "Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are una...
Two months prior, the State Department was warned about Blackwater’s lawless arrogance by an investigator who had uncovered shocking levels of corruption and negligence. He was stopped, however, by the company’s lead man in Iraq — another ex-Navy SEAL named Daniel Carroll. Carroll told Diplom...
5.Wait until they offer you the job. Simon Horton, author ofNegotiation Mastery, says, “You are strongest when they have offered you the job but not named a figure. Then get in first with a high figure, otherwise they will start low and it will be hard to negotiate upwards.” State...