Batavia Essays

II.1.1 Preservation Preserve [pre-zurv] means (1) to keep alive or in existence; make lasting, (2) to keep save from harm or injury; protect or spare, (3) to keep up; maintain. (The definition of preservation, n.d). Preservation is the protection or maintaining of cultural property through activities that minimize damage and that prevent loss of informational content. The primary goal of preservation itself, is to prolong the existence of cultural property. (Definitions of Conservations, n.d).

What do you think was your biggest contribution as a team member while you played at Batavia High School? While participating in athletics at Batavia I believe my greatest contributions to the team were my work ethic and positivity. I may not have always been been the best athlete, but my teammates could always count on me to work as hard as I possibly could. No matter how hard a practice or game was, I always tried to inspire and motivate my teammates by working hard myself and encouraging them

Africa, and Batavia, they traded many things but their main trade items were spices. The Dutch East Indies traded with many of the colonies they colonized. Some of the places they colonized were New Amsterdam, Cape Town in South Africa, and Batavia. The Dutch East Indies traded different things with all of

Compagnie (VOC) also known as the Dutch East India Company which created a nearly 200 year lasting trading monopoly in South-East Asia (Ricklefs,31). This essay will focus primarily on the VOC, and its political, economic and cultural impact in the Batavia and Cape of Good Hope. The main goal of the VOC was purely commercial. Parthesius states that the first destination was the commercial centre Bantam on the island Java (27). Bantam with its long history of pepper and spice trade and its International

Through looking at the lens of the film “Proteus” ,which has been used as an illustration for the historical account based on the real life trial of Claas Blank and Rijkhart Jacobsz. This essay aims to argue that the historical text is untrustworthy and how the film proves this through identifying the unworthiness in the following ways: the origins of same-sex relations, contrasting how these relations are dealt with between the Cape Colony and in Amsterdam. Finally, how the significance Robben Island

Should Athletes Be Required to Take P.E. Classes? By: Maddie Durso Wake up. Go to school. Practice. Homework. Sleep. This is the routine of many student athletes at BHS. Sports are a big commitment in many people's lives and they are getting lots of physical activity from it. So why do we still make athletes take useless P.E. classes? Students who are athletes should not have to waste precious time in a physical education class. Athletes already get much more physical activity from their sport

Growing Up One of my earliest childhood memories is playing youth football for Batavia. Childhood is a time of joy and new experiences, but everyone has to grow up. Holden, in Catcher in The Rye, doesn’t want to grow up or forget his childhood memories. He doesn’t want to grow up because he says the world is full of phoney’s. One example of Holden cherishing childhood is when he looks at Phoebe’s notebook. Holden comes home early and sneaks through Phoebe’s window. She wakes up and sees him. After

Mary Bryant was given birth in 1765 Fowey, Cornwall England. Towards the age of 19 Marry had been appearing for work when she found herself a task as a highway woman. At the age of 21 (1786), Mary was then founded guilty of assaulting a single woman and stealing a silk Bonnet off her. Because of this crime Mary was then sentenced to death. Soon after her sentenced changed too, 7 years transportation. Mary was committed to the prison hulk, Dukirk in Plymouth. In May 1787 Mary then had been shipped

After the XVI century, Europe had a resurgence that allowed their nations to explore the world. European nations looked for how to extend its political and military power among the world. However, economic power appears as an important matter for the Empires´ maintenance and hence, trade appeared as a tool to create such Economic control. European Empires found opportunities to develop trade in Asian countries that faced instability. Developing political agreements in order to establish monopolies

imperialized it. The Dutch traveled to Indonesia in 1595 a year later they made contact. Both the Dutch and Britain were in Indonesia creating trading posts The Dutch India Company was also created; in addition,“In 1619 a fortified base was established in Batavia (now Jakarta), and became the headquarters of the Dutch East Indies Company”(NWE). Some natural resources were nickel, coal, gold, and copper. Later in the “early twentieth century, the Netherlands had under its administration all the territory that

The spotlight 's glare on Maisie as she steps foot into the Carnegie Hall stage in New York City. She was among about a hundred others was chosen to be in the honors choir, out of the few thousand that tried out. Maisie’s hard work has helped her accomplish many things and shape her into the person she is today, according to close friends and family. For many years Maisie has been going to theater practices, voice lessons, piano lessons, It all started at a very young age. Maisie started singing

ANCIENT INDONESIA In Indonesia, the first people arrived about 40,000 years ago, when sea level was joined to Asia by a land bridge and sea level was lower. In the end of the last ice age 10,000 BC a really big amount of new people came. At first they gathered plants for food, collected shellfish and hunted animals. By about 2,500 BC they learned to grow crops such as millet, bananas, rice and taro. The early farmers also made pottery with tools made of stone. However by 700 BC the Indonesians learned

This proposal would be extremely difficult in the current political climate in Japan. I propose to request nations in the Asia Pacific, in particular Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and many Pacific island nations that became victims of Japanese war atrocities during the war, to introduce a “Japanese War Crimes Lie Law” in their own nations. I also propose to request these nations to clearly state their “territorial jurisdiction” in conjunction with

Michael Boehm of Batavia, IL created the concept for the grill after he was asked to create a follow up product to the sandwich maker. The original intent for the grill was to drain the fat out of hamburgers into a separate reservoir. It also uses duel-heating surfaces on

Executive Summary The goal of this report is to define the need of accessing feet by wheelchair consumers, and examine the methods which have been used in the past to allow the user to reach their feet. In addition, several existing technologies that help design such wheelchair with feet accessibility will be discussed. Finally, existing models of wheelchairs with feet accessibility will be challenged and critiqued, and possible refinements will be made. Several scholarly, reliable sources including

the age of 25, and this has caused many people to argue that the age of responsibility must be 25. However, others might argue that the true age of majority is actually 20 due to religious beliefs. As stated by Pastor Matthew Norville Sr. from the Batavia Christian Center, “According to the Word of God, a person becomes an adult when they reach the age of 20 (twenty).” This offers a very different perspective on the age of adulthood, as represented by religious beliefs. For many people, this is an

Slavery Slavery is embedded deep into the roots of the Cape. It was, because of slavery that we have such a diverse country, with many different cultures, beliefs and languages. Many people when asked about slavery say it is bad, terrible, sad, but not enough of them know enough about it as it is slowly dying away and becoming less and less of a memory. This essay deals with the who, what, when, why and how of slavery as well as the legacy that the slaves, our ancestors, left us. Colonialism the

Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda is a famous Chilean poet, poesia in Spanish, politician, and diplomat who supported the Communist party and served in diplomatic posts around the world. Pablo Neruda’s most famous work is Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, or Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. ==Early Life, Education, and First Writings== Pablo Neruda was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile.The Nobel Foundation, 1971 His father, José del Carmen

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) aimed to improve the education of students with disabilities and amend the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Before the passage of this bill, there were inadequate resources for students with disabilities in schools, making these students unprepared for postgraduate life (“IDEA”). In 1972, a congressional investigation run by The Bureau of Education for the Handicapped concluded that over eight million children required special education

Fertile Crescent: A region of the east where humans first took up agriculture and established large-scale settlements. The reason they’re important is because Grains provided a reliable source of food that was suitable for consumption when raw by soaking in water. Also the discovery of beer was made using these grains as well which is why this is so important in the history of beer. The Fertile Crescent was discovered around 10,000 BCE. Chica: Incas offered beer, Chicha, to the rising sun in a golden