The Voyage

Ferdinand Magellan is the son of Portuguese nobility and a student of cartography and astronomy. Magellan had a goal to discover a western sea route through the Americans that led to the Spice Islands. Throughout this voyage Magellan wanted more such as his own fleet which was refused to be given by the King of Portugal. Instead, the Spanish king provided an armada or fleet or ships of five. Magellan employed a group of men in their teenage years and twenties which later staged a mutiny. Within

about slavery. However, this week looking at the trans-Atlantic slave trade voyages database website and how many different voyages took place was heartbreaking for me. Reading the total number of slaves from Africa and how they were transported to different landing locations. From adults to children taken from their homes and relocated to a strange place. I can only imagine the turmoil those people went through on the voyages. From being sick, hungry, and beaten. Millions of Africans having their freedom

experiences traveling from his homeland in Europe to North America for greater opportunities and better living circumstances. He writes this document in 1743 to get his experience to anyone wanting to take the voyage to the Americas to show people his first-hand experience with leaving his homeland, the voyage along the way, and what indentured servitude was like. Lastly, he writes this document with an optimistic mindset hoping to create a new life in the Americas. In analyzing this source, Moraley lived the

The Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because the crew never went over safety procedures. They said the ship was unsinkable so nobody thought they needed to worry.When they did hit the iceberg and started to sink no one knew what to do. They panicked and didn’t fill the lifeboats to full capacity. They held 64 people and the first couple of boats left with as few as 26 people. If they were to fill those there wouldn’t have been so many deaths. In the book, procedures in case of emergencies

Review of Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance” Oluwatosin Oladosu MGT 619 – Strategic Management and Leadership March 23, 2017   The case study Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance is an interesting story which has been advantageous to a lot of managers and companies teaching about leadership and management. Shackleton performed different roles which could be related to what is happening today in organizations. He raised

There are plenty arguments that support why Zheng He's voyages should be celebrated or should not be celebrated. Zheng He's voyages should be celebrated because of his distance and destination, size of his fleet and treasure ship, and lastly his voyages had a glorious purpose. As a kid, Ma He watched his father die in front of him and then was taken by the Ming Dynasty's invading army. He became close with the leader and Ma He rose through ranks of military and was soon renamed Zheng He. Zheng He

Darwin claimed the voyage on the “Beagle” was the most important event in his life. This is expressed by him in his “excerpt from Voyage of the Beagle”. “I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved, though they were always fairly developed.” He describes is journey in several ways that make it the most important event in his life. He

gifts; porcelain, silk, teas, lacquerware and like luxuries were brought aboard displaying the influence and strength of the Ming. When sent on voyages theses bulking ships of 400 feet by 160 feet were accompanied by hundreds of smaller ships carrying miscellaneous necessities for the long travels. Ming China spent copious amounts of funds on these ships and voyages but the revenue equaled to nothing of mention compared to the investment, during this time the Mongols were attacking west China dividing

Let’s go on a “!” Imagine that you are a video reporter piloting a mini-sub that has been put through a miniaturization process making you and the sub only 8 microns long! (Ever see the movie “Inner Space”?) You have been injected into the femoral vein of a healthy female. The alert just came out that a bacterium is invading the lower lobe of the right lung!! You are to pilot your sub to the site of the “invasion” and do a live report on what you see. Trace your path from the right femoral vein

Saturn’s Titan: Voyage to the Mystery Moon goes over NASA’s mission to Saturn and its moon, Titan. The mission’s goal: look for clues to the origins of life. The film was a great overview of the mission to Saturn and Titan, and watching it was very informative. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. It is about half the size of Earth and almost as big as Mars. Also, Titan is the only moon in the solar system with clouds and a dense, planet like atmosphere