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in the 18th and 19th centuries. In July 1833, the British parliament abolished slave buying and selling through the passing of a Bill in the House of Commons and then in the House of Lords which abolished slave trade all through the British Empire. How this came into place has been largely debated and yet slave trade provided the British nation with money, employment, and luxurious commodities enriching the country. Interpretations of the British slave trade tends to be explained by the humanitarian

of London, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Studio Museum of Harlem, especially his passion of stained glass art. (https://nailedmagazine.com/art/artist-feature-kehinde-wiley/) One of his many stained glass art works named “Saint Ursula and the virgin martyrs”, which was exhibited in his Paris Art Exhibit named “Lamentation”. An exhibit in which he debuted

reason for oversea expansion was that, even though the waters be deadly with rough waves and strong winds, it was easier to travel by water than land. In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $72 million and occupied the Midway Islands in the Pacific. People often moved across the ocean seeking a new start with new opportunities. Expansion across the sea also was pushed by the competition for natural resources and how in the world the more land you claim, the

out of high school at a young age and started a youth-culture magazine called “Student.” Branson had then created a mail-order record company in which he named “Virgin” this was so that he could support his magazine business. Branson’s record shop was earned by later efforts as well as a recording studio1972 in Oxfordshire, England. Virgin Music Company was one of the top six record companies in the world. He expanded the voyager Group, a travel company in 1980, the

During 1897 a push for the nation to expand in a document written by Alfred T Mahan directed towards the public caused America to dive its nose in areas such as the Philippine, Puerto Rico, Guam, virgin islands, Wake Island, and, the Panama Canal Zone (6). American expanded beyond its borders and spewed into other areas oversees. This was very dissimilar to the original idea where the people only expanded westward. Another part of expansion that was very different

political stability, rule of law, and the control of corruption. Small islands with a population below 1 million are also highly favorable jurisdictions because they often lack natural resources and hence depend on foreign investors. MNEs such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Starbucks have long ago discovered the advantages of such small island economies. Yet, this paper also shows that tax haven do not have to be located in some remote islands with sandy beaches – but they can also be in any respectable country

TAX HAVENS DEFINING Tax Havens • Def 1:A tax haven is a country or territory where certain taxes are levied at a low rate or not at all. • Def 2: Tax haven or fiscal paradise are terms used to refer to a jurisdiction which enables its foreign residents or companies to reduce their tax liabilities from their homelands. • Def 3: "What ... identifies an area as a tax haven is the existence of a composite tax structure established deliberately to take advantage of, and exploit, a worldwide

We sat in my grandparent’s living room. The large white curtains were drawn to keep the sun from shining through. My grandpa sat in a red chair with an extra pillow behind him to support his back as I sat in the red wheelchair that had been given to him after he had broken his hip. His face was tanned and his hair was the same as it always was; a halo of white around his head with wispy strands on top that I remember playing with from my childhood.. He had crinkles at the corners his eyes and smile

Cruises in the Caribbean: Who does not benefit? Cruise tourism, in todays society, has increasingly become a more popular niche market with in the travel industry for over the past 4 decades world-wide (Wild, G.P. (International) Ltd, 2004, p.15). Although it is a relatively old concept for tourists to travel around the world to different destinations, destinations such as the Caribbean, Asia and the Mediterranean is a relatively new trend including the luxury and innovative experience that is currently

Enslavement Resistance Slave resistance began for many enslaved Africans before they reach the Americas. Karenga explained the many arrangements in which Africans resisted to enslavement, while in Africa, during the middle passage, and in the Americas. Employing the Karenga text one can evaluate the different resistances that transpired in Antigua as Cultural, Resistance, Day-to-Day Resistance, Abolitionism, Armed Resistance, Revolts, Ship Mutinies, and Afro-Native Alliance. One can conclude that