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  • Marco Polo
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    MARCO POLO Marco Polo is one of the most well known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo's life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19th century. Marco's father, Niccolo, and his uncle Maffeo had traveled to China as merchants...
  • Travels Of Marco Polo
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    The result of the publication of this book was a rapid increase in commerce between the Italian city states and China. This expansion of enterprise soon spread to the rest of Europe as well. The result for Italy was the creation of wealth and leisure that made possible the Renaissance. For the rest of Europe as well it meant the slow death of the medieval period and the coming of the age of exploration and enterprise. It was, after all, a passage to India and China by sea that Columbus sought in...
  • Special Connection Between Clara And Uncle Marcos
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    In the first chapter, 'Rosa the Beautiful,' we learn of an Uncle Marcos who is related to the del Valle family. Midway through the chapter he dies. Does Uncle Marcos presence in the beginning of the chapter have any significance to the story or Clara? (Especially, since his role is very small and he eventually dies from some kind of African viruses.) Uncle Marcos had been on numerous expeditions, where he traveled to various countries and recorded his impressions and excursions of what he saw, f...
  • President Marcos
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    The Philippines is known to have been through a lot of corruption especially during the Marcos era. Tyranny was prevalent. Absolute power, whether is a king, president or a protector is not only alien to our idea of "democratic decision" but without fail, gets to be arbitrary despotic and corrupt. Tyranny was at its height during martial law, which began September 1972. William Shakespeare reveals his perception of a corrupt society in his play "Julius Caesar". This play is about the assassinati...
  • Philippine Military Under Marcos
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    The videos trace the development of the United States' colonial policy in the Philippines. It all started with helping a disaster-stricken young republic in creating a democratic society. In order to do that, the Philippines welcomed U.S. intervention. The U.S. was their hope to be freed from the Japanese and to rid their label of being the "sick man of Asia". Of course, U.S. aid came with extensive stipulations requiring amendment of the Philippine Constitution. Americans suddenly now had almos...
  • Long Time Marco Polo
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    Marco Polo was one of the greatest explorer of all time, he came forma a town in Italy named Venice; he lived from 1254 to 1353. He lived to be seventy years old. The life he lived was one of the lives well known hundreds of yeas after his death. He explored places nobody had the guts to explore. Places man had never seen in the past history. Maybe this is why he is remembered all over the world today. He profit one of the Bible story was not real or ever was. Before his life change he had a rou...

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