Navigation of the American Explorers - 15th to 17th Centuries
Seventeenth century travelers to Maine’s coast such as Samuel Champlain, George Waymouth, and John Smith carried state-of-the-art navigation tools for both dead reckoning and celestial navigation.
Navigation Tools for Dead Reckoning and Piloting
Invented in China in the 3rd century BC, the compass did not come to Europe until the 12th century AD. By the time of Columbus' voyage it was common. Instead of degrees, the compass card, on which directions were drawn or printed, showed the points of the compass, including north, south, east, and west. There are 32 points of the compass, the four main quadrants of the circle each divided into eight 11¼ ° points. Columbus noticed that, as one sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, the variation between magnetic north and true north changed. On future trips he used this to predict, roughly, his arrival in America.
Answer:
That the promise was not enforceable because it was a gift.
Explanation:
A plaintiff lawyer loaning a corporate client funds who is breached of an oral contract that the client will give the lawyer three percent of the company's stock. The client later breaks his promise and denied the plaintiff lawyer three percent of the company's stock.
The result on appeal in the case was that the client promised to give the lawyer three percent of the company stock as a gift but the promise is not enforceable. The client now can deny giving three percent of the company's stock to the lawyer.
Hence the answer is
That the promise was not enforceable because it was a gift.
Social changes will bring different interests. This means that different things will be purchased. In turn the economy will change.
Answer:
When a person, who commits a crime gets little or no punishment at all, the he/she is encouraged to keep on performing that crime or even indulge in crimes of bigger levels. This is because the person has no fear of getting punishment for his deeds, He thinks that when he was able to escape first, then he will be able to escape again from the punishment of his crime. As a result, the criminal incidents keep on rising to an alarming situation for a country until serious steps are taken to punish the people accused of committing a crime.
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