Jiebel Ali Fiz Essay

•    Discuss the changes and continuities in the Silk Road trading network from 600 BCE – 1450

This expansion demonstrates how the luxury industry is now run by massive corporations whose focus is only on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and most importantly, PROFITS! With growth and expansion, has come a decrease in quality and rarity. The luxury garments produced are mostly not handmade but are even outsourced to large factories in places such as China and Turkey. Also, to meet quarterly turnover projections, “designers churn(ed) out increasingly trendy collections of clothes, handbags, and shoes.” (Thomas, Pg. 246) With hundreds of new stores around the globe the surplus of designer labeled merchandise is immense hence, the proliferation of outlet malls.

| * There was still international trade. * The silk roads were still in use as major trade routes.

Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-6. (The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.) Write your answer on the lined pages of the Section II free-response booklet.

Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield elaborates on the idea of life and trade on the Silk Road from different perspectives. Each perspective sheds new light on what exactly the experience of the Silk Road is like and what it has to offer for different people. It is known that the Silk Road is not one physical road made of silk, but instead it is an idea of free trade and growth of many sorts. The Silk Road allows people to expand their physical living boundaries, their ideas of technology, and their economic standing. Physically many people have unspoken boundaries that limit their exploration of the land around them, but with the development of the Silk Road, those boundaries are being pushed in order to obtain valuable resources or goods to trade. With the expansion of the Silk Road, on land and on water, there is also many opportunities for technological advances. Many discoveries allow for faster and more efficient travel and trade on both land and water. With the rapid increase in trade due to the rise of the Silk Road, many city-states have the opportunity to grow economically. Mass exports and an increase in imports allows for the city-states to increase their financial earnings in a briefer time period. Throughout Whitfield’s book, she tells the stories of a merchant, a soldier, and a princess, as they all separately travel the Silk Road, years apart from one another. Each person has a different story and reason for traveling the silk road and yet all of

The U.S. Borders are here to protect the U.S., but are they really? The borders prevent illegal immigrant coming to the U.S., buy yet they don’t seem to be doing their jobs. There is a border dividing Canada and Mexico.

Last night the world lost a true icon and boxing legend Mohammed Ali. Although, I didn't get to witness firsthand the impact he made worldwide; I do understand he was a great man, a great athlete and one-of-a-kind! When you think of boxing the first thing that comes to your mind is Mohammed Ali. He shaped the sport into what it is today with his domination and confidence.

The purpose of this case is to establish the viability of the €75 million shopping center project located along the Danube River in the city of Gyor. As the director of Hungarian operations for ECE Projektmanagement Dr. Philipp von Wilmowsky had worked for two years on the 30,300 square meter shopping center. So while Gyor lack significant a shopping center thus creating a site that had great potential there were several major questions that would define the success of the project.

The battle between president Obama and the congress is settled in favor of the President, however a similar battle in form, but different in nature, has emerged in Iran. The Rouhani’s government has insisted for weeks that the Parliament should not review and vote on the JCPOA. On the other hand, a handful of influential conservative members of parliament, close to the IRGC, insisted on the parliament’s rights to vote on the deal. The supreme leader finally sided with his devoted followers in the Majles. However, his intent is different from them. While the extreme hardliners in the Majles intend to reject the deal, Khamenei’s goal is to drop the responsibility of signing the deal, which he has to do if the JCPOA is submitted to the Supreme National Security Council. The

Mohamed Ali is my inspiration. Some People will say he was the greatest boxer, and a great athlete; But for me it’s more than that. He was different than everyone at the time, maybe everyone in general. If you see anyone complimenting themselves before they start a match or a game, It’s one of two things they are crazy or conceited. He wasn’t any of that, and he complement himself all the time. When someone asked him before why do you compliment yourself before the match, and he said that you need to make yourself feel better and feel great same as you need compliments from others. Mohamed Ali said you need to believe in yourself, and make yourself feel confident.

Both sides East and West of the Silk Road offer an assortment of enticing goods for merchant business. From the West and India, yield consists of olive oil, perfume, wine, precious stone, glassware, horses, cinnamon, cotton, ginger, and Indian pepper (Mahdavi, 2012). From the East products include bronze wares, lacquer, wares, Chinese cinnamon, ceramic pottery, jade jewelry, paper, bamboo poles and silk (Mahdavia, 2012). Trading these products between the regions will yield high profits to please the sponsors and entice them with safety through my merchant

Muhammad Ali, was the first Islamic boxer to win a World Title. Grit is perseverance, passion, and faith to get to your life goals and over difficult challenges. Muhammad Ali born January 17, 1942 Louisville Kentucky he passed June 03, 2016. After an amazing boxing career and then the battle against Parkinson’s diseases outside the ring. Muhammad Ali used perseverance, passion, and faith to get him through life and to become one of the best boxers in history.

One of Songhai rulers was Sunni Ali saw Mail and he led his soldiers to conquer the area. Sunni Ali began a kingdom called Songhai. One of Songhai ruler is name is Askia Muhammed he was an emperor he made it Strong and its government was strong too.Askia Mohammed built centers for learning in the city of Gao. After Songhai took over Mali they still traded gold and salt mines.

Moving on, now history. I will start with the Silk Road’s history. The Silk Road started at 200 B.C, and ended in 1,300 A.D. The Silk Road had lots of trade routes, since it was a very long road. Nobody walked the whole road, since it was dangerous and long. Some Of the dangers that were at/on the Silk Road was deserts, mountains, rivers snow, bandits, corrupt officials, wars, no water, no food, injuries, and dead animals.What dead animals means is if a cheetah killed an animal then saw you, it could possibly kill you. The Silk Road was created after the Roman’s seeing China’s silk, and they traded gold for it. Then, the Silk Road was started. An interesting fact is in China, silk was a matter of life and death. Nobody could figure out how

You would have thought the world would look different when it ends, yet when me and Juliet went outside for the first time after a month in the room, it all looked the same.