Arabian Sea

to monopolize a powerful system: “... the Portuguese involvement was the attempt to control and tax the trade on by Asian merchants in the Indian Ocean” By pursuing a dominant role the Portuguese separated them from benefitted from what other countries had to offer. By changing the economic consistencies throughout the trade, the Portuguese alienated themselves from being a communal trading unit and established their superior role. The Portuguese manipulated and attacked the other nations and their merchants in order to gain power. The Portuguese only influenced the countries on the ocean which left merchants without defenses: “the poor [Bengali] merchants who sail on the sea pay for all these things, because Your Highness should certainly be aware that the Portuguese are so powerful on the sea that nothing can escape them.” The Portuguese power dominated trade which mainly affected the less privileged merchants who needed the trade to sustain their own livelihood. The cruelty of the Portuguese was never hidden but rather overlooked: “Whatever de Gama’s many virtues, he was not known for having a sweet or gentle nature; he ordered his crew to rob kidnap and murder at the sight of provocation.” The Portuguese repeatedly chose to assert themselves with violence in order to a heir the power they desired. Without gaining respect through resources the Portuguese used their military superiority to suppress other countries merchants which disrupted nation's stability.…

The film stars Rudolph Valentino, who plays an Arab that kidnaps a woman, Diana, and imprisons her, waiting for her to love him back. When a different sheik attempts to rape her after she escapes, Valentino’s character saves her and reveals that he is not in fact Arabian, but is instead of European descent (The Sheik). Enemy making is clearly central to the plot, as the Sheik kidnaps a woman that looks American for his own bidding, effectively establishing Arabs as an enemy to Americans, as…

Why did trade thrive in Muslim lands? In 610 C.E., Muhammad founded a new religion called Islam. Muhammad’s religion inspired the Arab people, and the Muslims had conquered an area stretching from Afghanistan to parts southern Spain. Trade, ideas, and culture thrived in this Islamic empire. Islam brought a sense of unity and purpose to the traders and people of the Arabian Peninsula. Arab armies spread Islam through the Middle East and beyond. Muslim traders also spread Islam. Between…

From the years 622 to 632, the western Arabian Peninsula was controlled by Muhammad. Afterward, east of the Arabian Peninsula and west Asia were also conquered between the years 632 and 661. Later, from the years 661 to 750, parts of Asia, North Africa, and Spain became ruled by the Umayyad Caliphs (Document C). Clearly, one may conclude that the Muslim military campaigns helped conquer numerous regions of the world. Moreover, when non-Muslims were conquered, they were allowed to practice their…

"Yashiro Shrine is dedicated to Watatsumi-no-Mikoto, god of the sea. […] the inhabitants should be devout worshippers of this god. They are forever praying for calm seas…" (4, par. 2, chp.1) The islanders are so gracious for the ocean, that they made a shrine of a sea god to represent the seas that surround the island. The islanders have been devoted to their faith in order to receive a sense of reassurance. They pray in hopes to please the sea god that they worship in order to gain pleasant…

Dangers of Plastic Can Rings Over 100,000 marine creatures die per year due to improper disposal of plastic six-pack rings. (Plastic Statistics 2012) Great numbers of these plastic rings are littered each day, serving as a dangerous threat to the Earth. They are provoking pollution, as well as killing off dozens of species. Actions need to be taken to prevent this. 800 billion pounds of trash fill the oceans. (Harrison 2015)A large contributor to this amount of this garbage is soda can rings.…

Adrift in a Moral Sea Life often throws people some difficult challenges where there ends up being more than one right course of action. Everyone has their own different morals that they have acquired through out their life and this helps them decide which ethical perspective that they believe in. One instance, of where you can look at multiple ethical perspectives to solve a problem comes from the essay “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Harden, which is about being shipwrecked in the middle of the…

consciousness(99)” . The island throws obstacles at these children and they have no other choice then to change from the innocent juveniles into ruthless savages. This displays an example of how the island is changing jack, he feels as if he needs to lose the qualities that the outside society has helped him develop,u and become this savage. Being confined on an Island makes him emphasize which traits is best fit for his search of a way of this island. Prospero’s influence over the narrative,…

particles into the ocean. Most of the sources of the marine pollution are land base activities. Marine pollution has numerous effects on marine animals, plants and human. Therefore, it is important to understand the cause and effect of the ocean pollution, and what people can do to solve this problem. The source of marine pollution is plentiful, about eighty percent of them come from land-based activities. Some enter the ocean directly, some pollute ocean indirectly. The first pollutant that…

As time’s clock runs its course, we often find ourselves nostalgic of times that could have been or were. Staring out across an ocean, laughing around a table filled with close friends, or taking a long walk at night humans seek reflection and question if we have proven ourselves worthy. Similar to Walcott in his poem, people begin to reflect when faced with reminders of their past. The magnitude of the narrator’s experience is clearly portrayed in his nostalgic tone and repetition of…