The Bahamas is an island country of the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic Ocean.
Darden Restaurants, Incorporated was founded by Bill Darden in 1938 when he opened his first restaurant, The Green Frog, in Waycross, Georgia that featured “Service with a Hop.” Thirty years later he opened the first Red Lobster in Lakeland, Florida. General Mills acquired Red Lobster in 1970 before spinning off Darden Restaurants Incorporated, so it could focus on consumer food products (Wikipedia). By 1975, Darden was promoted to the position of Vice President at General Mills. Darden Restaurants…
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The Ecuadorian Deputy Foreign Minister Leonardo Arízaga, today opened the XIII Meeting of Coordinators of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in which he stated that the organization is committed to a work based on respect and mutual benefit cooperation issues . "In CELAC will work on issues of cooperation based on respect and mutual benefit," noted Arízaga at the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), where the event takes place, the Foreign Ministry…
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I. Introduction 1. During the Age of Exploration and Discovery, Portugal and Spain were the vanguards of the new era of expansion due to not one single factor, but rather several conditions that fortuitously favored them. The two primary motives behind Portugal and Spain’s expansion were the desire to spread Christianity as well as the desire to gain profit. The circumstances of the time fit these motives perfectly: not only had the two countries just ended the centuries long Reconquista, but the…
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United States,[citation needed] thus including English-speaking countries such as Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Bahamas; French-speaking Haiti and Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana; and Dutch-speaking Curaçao, Aruba, St. Maarten, and Suriname. (In the former Curaçao and Aruba, Papiamento – a predominantly Iberian-derived creole language – is spoken by the majority…
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Chapter 4: Middle America 1. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n): isthmus 2. Which of the following is/is not located in the Greater Antilles? Is : Cuba,Hispaniola,Jamaica, Puerto Rico Is not: Trinidad, Bahamas, Guadalupe, Martinica, Dominica, Santa Lucia… 3. As a group, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico constitute: The Greater Antilles 4. Which of the…
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Gold and precious stones was not the only natural resources that interested Spaniards. On the Bahamas they discovered pearl trade. Las Casas states, “The life of a pearl-fisher in these conditions is worse than any other on the face of the earth; it is even more dreadful and more terrible than that of the native gold-miner” (93). Spaniards treated natives inhumanely. The entire population of the Bahamas was exterminated by the profitable enterprise (94). Las Casas notes, “Another occupation in which…
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Environmental Scan Paper Your Name MGT 498 Week 3 Instructor Name Date For any company to survive in the business environment, they must be accustomed toward any situation within the environment because of certain issues, perceptions, chances, and resources. These are such reasons every business must observe any applicable changes, which can occur within the environment and invent from existing policies to adjust toward variations. For any company to succeed the company will need to conquer…
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Armenia Yerevan, 1,462,700 (metro. area), 1,267,600 (city proper) Australia Canberra, 327,700 Austria Vienna, 2,041,300 (metro area), 1,523,600 (city proper) Azerbaijan Baku, 2,118,600 (metro area), 1,235,400 (city proper), a port on the Caspian Sea Bahamas Nassau, 222,200 Bahrain Al-Manámah, 527,000 (metro area), 149,900 (city proper) Bangladesh Dhaka, 12,560,000 (metro.area), 5,378,023 (city proper) Barbados Bridgetown, 98,900 Belarus Mensk (Minsk), 1,769,500 Belgium Brussels, 1,750,600 (metro area)…
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were some of the first to settle in North America, establishing the fundamentals of classes, especially an elite class. Additionally, the Mayans solidified their language, their calendar, and a written mathematical system. The Incan Empire lived in Peru and Chile and not only used quipu to document but held a similar system to…
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Christopher Columbus: Christopher Columbus was a Portuguese explorer whose goal was to find a sea route to Asia by sailing west. Though he did not accomplish this goal, in 1492, he on set foot on a land he thought was India, but really what today is the Bahamas. From there, it was considered to be the New World, thus establishing a lasting contact between the New World (Americas) and the Old World (Europe) Vasco Nunez de Balboa: Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa set out to establish a settlement in…
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