Essays on Across The Atlantic

Multiple factors went into play before the Europeans claimed dominance over world trade routes and conquered vast lands outside Europe. With a particular interest in the fact that the Chinese boasted better navigation tools and sea vessels than the Portuguese and the Spanish did by the fifteenth century (World Shrinks17mins), the rise of the West benefited greatly from the lack of competition. In other words, if the Chinese had maintained their desire to show their military prowess to other nations, then the West would have taken longer if not failed to come into power. A view of the animated ...

The Industrial Revolution began in England in the late 18th century, spreading all across Europe before it finally reached North America and Canada at a later date. The late arrival of the revolution to the colonies was, at least in part, due to the distance between them and the countries of Europe. We can, however, also demonstrably say that the slowness of the revolution in Canada at least was due to the sheer distances involved in the colonies themselves. This paper will examine the industrial revolution in Canada, moving from general terms to specific ones, in order to show ...

The discovery of the “New World” the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was one of the most momentous moments in world history. It went far past what we take for granted, the opening of an entire new section of the world map for European conquest. Although that is an important fact about Columbus’ historical contribution it certainly isn’t the only one. The discovery of the Americas created an Atlantic world and new forms of exchange therein. The Columbian exchange, the trading of many things from the New World to the Old – Africa and Europe – is what’s ...

The air near the surface will usually become warmer throughout the day. This is one of the main reasons why it is unstable. Then at night, the air that is close to the surface will begin to cool. This is going to form a temperature inversion or a stable atmosphere.2. Inversions aloft are sometimes called “capping inversions” or “lids”. Why?

This is because it is like putting a lid on the atmosphere.

3. You are flying at 4,000 feet AGL over a city during the day. There are no clouds present. As you descend to land at a nearby airport, you notice that, although visibility was very good at 4, ...

Impact of Benjamin Franklin's Charts of the Golf Stream on the Shipping Industry

The Gulf Stream is a gigantic current that flows from the Mexican Gulf, past the Florida Peninsula, U.S. East Coast and up to Cape Hatteras. The current then flows across the Atlantic towards Iceland, British Isles, and to Norway. Viewed from the Straits of Florida, the stream has a width of approximately forty miles. Its speed can go as high as five miles per hour (4.3 nautical knots). As the current flows into North Atlantic, the width widens and can increase to up to hundreds of miles at some points (Richardson 51). The amount of water carried by the ...

Slavery, which the South frequently referred to as its “peculiar institution,” had an enormous impact on American history. Even after 1863 and the abolition of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as the 1865 passage of the 13th amendment to the Constitution, slavery continued to have lasting effects on the American people for decades to come. The beginnings of African slavery go all the way back to the first British settlements in North America. However, it was the division of former British colonies into slave states in the South and free states in the North that laid the ...

Historically, one of the issues that the United States has been accused of is having a lack of cultural identity that extends beyond the hamburger. Actually, the irony in that sentence is that the hamburger is not even American, which further proves this argument. What these two sentences are attempting to say is that there is very little that the United States does have compared to nations in Europe and other parts of the world that have longer histories that the Untied States does. This is not to say that the United States will not develop this over time; ...

With the unprecedented sinking of American merchant marine ships across the Atlantic starting with the Robin Moor in May of 1941, America had unofficially entered into World War II. As the outrage of Americans grew because of those events and the navy’s lack of response, Admiral Ernest King became subject to vilification. He was blamed for the initial Allied merchant shipping failures in the Atlantic. His private philosophy to fleet escort was that the U.S Navy had a very small number of ships and for that reason they could not be secured to give escort to civilian shipping ( ...

Christopher Columbus lived through the fifteenth century and completed four voyages through his lifetime which took him across the Atlantic Ocean. The history however is incomplete when it comes to his discoveries, and not empty of controversy on the subject of his accomplishments. The voyage that specifically connects to Columbus’s name is his discovery of America, but Alas! That claim has been under immense scrutiny as of late. Many historians contest that there was after all colonization in America prior to the time of Columbus’s legendary breakthrough. Some historians even go a step further to claim that the ...

The earliest extensive sugar production was developed in Brazil, across the Atlantic coast. Even though sugar cane was ostensibly established in Brazil in 1516, it was mainly conducted for certain economic purposes, because of the struggle of Europe for economic and legal claims to places in America. The next forty years were crucial in the trading with Brazil that primarily focused on the cultivation of dyewood since the prices and demand for sugar had collapsed in Europe. However, by the sixteenth era, both prices and demand had increased because sugar was substituting honey in various recipes and increasingly became ...

The Spanish established colonial empire in the Americas in the 16th Century in parts of South, North and Central America; a region that later became known as the Latin America. Its empire was among the first and largest global empires in the world. Its territories spanned the Americas, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa between the 15th centuries until the late 19th Centuries, with several other colonial empires in Africa in the late 20th century (Mills, Taylor, & Graham). In 1492, Spain began as one united monarch after the Iberian Peninsula was Reconquista. A Spanish voyager, Christopher Columbus, commanded and exploratory voyage ...

With the discovery of the New World (now called as America) by Christopher Columbus, a new trade route was established across the Atlantic Ocean which helped in bridging the gap between the New World and the Old World. There had been a continuous trade and exchange of goods, crops, animals and even several diseases from Old World to New World. This exchange of commodities is termed in history as the Columbian Exchange. Many such items that were previously unknown to the Europeans were brought from the New World as well (Crosby, 2003). Along with many other items that were exchanged between ...

Book Review

The book ‘The Salt water slavery: a middle passage from Africa to American Diasporas’ is authored by Stephanie Smallwood illuminating more on the extent of the African slavery and what extended from the slave markets into the Atlantic ocean during transit of the slaves (usually blacks). Stephanie appears to have been driven into writing this book by the forces of what really occurred in the high seas and the need to expose the shocking reality of what transpired in the high seas (Smallwood, v). The book can be divided into three sections where each section can be looked at ...

When most people think about the discovery of America by European explorers, the first person they think of is Christopher Columbus. However, the north and south continents of America are not named after Colombus, but another person, Amerigo Vespucci. Both of these people have important roles in the discovery and understanding about the lands known at the time as the New World. Columbus was an explorer, and he was motivated to try to find an easier route for traders to reach India and China; he believed this could be accomplished by travel across the Atlantic Ocean. After many ...

Abstract

After several unsuccessful attempts in preceding years, the first successful transatlantic cable installation was successfully installed and commissioned in 1866. This giant step in global communications was the first of many cable installations that gave the United States the technology to break away from the physical and intellectual isolation from Europe and the rest of the world. Starting with the telegraph, followed by the telephone and most recently the Internet; the government, business sector and finally the general public were given access to increasingly accessible and affordable bi-directional and interactive communications. The technology of telecommunications has provided a most efficient ...

Providing a true measure of equality for men and women has proven to be problematic throughout history. The differences in the two gender roles have been based, to some extent, on the different roles that they both bring to the nuclear family. Women who chose to have children as part of their family are making a decision that will affect their personal and professional opportunities in ways that do not affect the men involved, and during the course of history, this difference has served to define many of the traditional roles for women and men. During the Colonial era, which has ...