Terrain College Essays Samples For Students

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve (RTR) is situated at the junction of two very old mountain ranges, the Aravallis and the Vindhyas. Ranthambhore comprises of distinct areas with great conservation values. Prior to formation of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, these reserves were managed as hunting reserves. In 1955, a part of the forest was declared as Sawai Madhopur Wildlife Sanctuary (as a game reserve). In 1973, this area was notified as Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, being one of the first nine Project Tiger reserves in India. The Reserve comprises of Ranthambhore National Park along with Sawai Mansingh Sanctuary and Keladevi Wildlife Sanctuary. Ranthambhore National Park ( ...

Technology

Introduction
Analysis of technology has revealed that most countries have been revolutionized by technology, making them more digitalized. Indeed, technology use in our daily lives has made work or things easier for us, unlike in traditional times where there was no technology. It has further been embraced in warfare for advancing weapons as well as fighting tactics. The use of technology in warfare comes along with added advantages during war when advanced weapons are used. However, for an army to conquer their enemies during war technologically, other factors such as planning in advance and the tactics used, skills of ...

Vietnam War

Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is the most famous and significant US external affairs that will remain in the history of US. In essence, it is arguable whether US lost the war or to some extent; it won. Often than not, it appears that the US lost the war as it withdrew from the battlefield before achieving its agenda. The war had a significant economic, social and political impact on the people of US. The US government was overspending on this war; thousands of soldiers were being killed and protest and thus ‘no need of drama’ (O’Brien, 2014 p ...

Americans have fought multiple wars from 1900 to 2000, some were lost, and some won. The most critical wars were the first and second world wars that saw the Americans emerge victorious. The United State of America has taken part in wars with Arab countries like Vietnam and Iraq. The Vietnam War did cost the federal government billions of shillings in paying soldiers and reconstructing the country. The wars in Middle East faced resistance from the inhabitants of the country and from other super power nations. The different wars that the America participated led to the need of using ...

In the midst of the Cold War era, both the U.S and U.S.S.R engaged one another in proxy wars in regions throughout the world to further their respective expansionist national agendas while counteracting the geo-political influence of one another. Proxy wars are conflicts contained within third party nations or regions which are instigated by the influence of major geopolitical powers who do not themselves become directly involved in the conflict. Thus, proxy wars are facilitated by major powers to preserve and expand their geopolitical influence through promoting or opposing certain armed factions within a regional conflict which in turn ...

The battle of Pork Chop Hill comprises pairs of wars which were related and fought in Korea. The wars happened in 1953 when the United States of America and two communists groups, the Koreans and the Chinese were seeking an armistice (Gibby 879). The truce took a very long time to come, and this is what led to the battle of pork after the Chinese declared that the fact that they were parties to the negotiation, it did not mean that the war had stopped and hey launched an attack (Fehrenbach & Kevin 22). The wars became controversial in America ...

The idea of riding a bike is not new by any means. The evolution of production of mountain bikes is growing rapidly among the population. Bicycling has various health benefits to the people especially those who are willing to cut weight, increase strength, increase flexibility, and build stamina. Choice of mountain bikes is rising due to the astonishing array of models that is available on the market nowadays. The choice of a bike for mountain riding involves selecting certain features available in the bike. Different places need different kind of bikes, for example, a mountain bike can be chose on the ability ...

According to Selye (1955) stress is defined as a condition which propels a unique body response in a manner that causes changes in physiological or structural aspects of our body. Another view proposed by (Lazarus, 1966) is that stress is a condition which compels an individual to feel exhausted when the demands of that person exceed the physical and social resources accessible to him.

Stress in Aviation

Pilots are really conscious at the time of their flights because accidents can happen with tragic repercussions. These accidents are a cause of series of mistakes committed at the time. Although the executor of mistake may only do one thing ...

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. The setting of the novel is during the colonization of America (Hacht, 24; Cooper & Cooper; 8). The plot of the story revolves around a journey by the daughters of Lieutenant Colonel Munro’s who was the commander of the British Forces during Britain’s occupation of America.

Plot

Munro’s daughters Cora and Alice Munro and their reinforcements Major Heyward, David Gamut- a singing teacher and an Indian named Magua are headed from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry (Cooper, 12). Magua who ...

Introduction

Globalization and information based technology has had significant and widespread effects on the environment. Within that context is the evolving and continuous development of manpower. The modern employee is highly knowledgeable and equipped with skills that necessarily make him or her good in strategic decision making. This has in overall changed the working landscape. Within the same strain, developments have been seen in the human resource management. The new generation employees demand for more participative and consultative approaches to management. In that context, performance appraisal methods have inevitably changed. In addition, the role of the manager has metamorphosed from ...

Introduction

Pre-Spanish Era
Religious Practices
Political Structure
Material Culture
Spanish Occupation
Material Culture

The Culture after the Spanish Conquest

Religious Influence of the Catholic Spanish and the Remaining Ethnic Groups
Influences of the Protestant Church
Religious Fighting between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church
Current Economic and Cultural Development
Cultural Development
Introduction
Argentina is considered by Calvert, Donghi and Eidt (2016) as the eighth largest country in the world but is considered to be only third within Latin America (Buenos, 2014). The reason for this is that the land area of Argentina with 2.78 million square kilometers is larger than Mexico and the Texas state combined ( ...

Introduction

The Battle of 73 Easting was a war fought between the United States VII Corps and the Tawakalna Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard in 1991. The Battle of 73 Easting became one of many army fights that took place in Desert Storm. War tactics used in this battle were entirely different from the strategies employed in the current world. The development of modern war tactic methods such as the use of chemical weapons, and long-range ballistic missiles among others, are all signs that army forces must be ready to fight and win wars in complex environments and under ...

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Application of Drone Technology to Facilitate Effective HIV Diagnostic and Treatment Services to Children in Rural Malawi

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Drones without Borders (DWB) is an organization which has been created to serve HIV vulnerable children in rural Malawi through a partnership with ZipLine Drones. Our organization seeks to develop and implement an four-months program aimed at ensuring fast and continuous delivery of HIV test kits, results, and antiretroviral drugs to provide immediate medical attention to HIV positive children in rural, cut off, hard to access, often combat zone areas in Malawi. The mortality rate of the infected children has been on the rise due to lack of access ...

Santiago, popularly known among the locals as Santiago de los Caballeros is located at the heart of the Cibao Valley, in central Dominican Republic and is considered to be the second largest country of the Republic. Due in large parts to its location on the island, tropical climate prevails in the city for most parts of the year. To put it into context, average temperatures throughout the year hover around the 25 degree Celsius or 77 degree Fahrenheit, with days that offer sunlight without the heat making the weather intolerable . This is why the long, sunny days on the ...

Search and Rescue (SAR) is a practice done to salvage people from disasters. This practice is done by professionals who are specialized in particular disasters, for instance, following a hurricane or earthquake. These professionals serve to protect life to the best of their ability in each and every operation they encounter. As such, they need as much information before venturing into a potentially life-threatening disaster area. A mechanism is, therefore, required to provide all the necessary information to the SAR professionals. An excellent solution is this scenario would be an unmanned aerial vehicle that can record and relay real-time ...

Introduction

This paper is to deal with one of main issue of post-WW2 world, namely the phenomenon of civil war. The analysis of this paper is devoted to such questions as the reasons for certain civil wars as well as concrete instances of such internal conflicts. Also, the paper is to discuss the major theoretical contributions and controversies related to the civil war research program: firstly, civil wars are defined conceptually, and then, operationally.
Second, major theories relating to the issue of causes of civil wars and their results will be discussed, along with future directions and policy implications. The ...

Von Daniken’s Evidence of Extraterrestrials Visits to Earth

Von Daniken mentions the Tassili sphere where Henri Lhote found images underneath a semicircular rock. In the image, a woman is pulling a man and behind her is a sphere with concentric circles. On the upper side of the sphere, a hatch is open with a television aerial protruding from it. There are hands with outspread fingers on the right half of the sphere. There are also five floating figures wearing helmets with white and red dots accompanying the sphere.
Von Daniken also uses a gigantic stone egg discovered in 1940 by an archeologist known as Professor Marcel Homet ( ...

Introduction

Ancient Greece was a Greek civilization that belonged to an era of Greek history which lasted from the ancient age of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of ancient times. The Greek civilization is generally deemed to be the influential culture which founded the basis of the Western Civilization (Mac Kendrick, 6). Ancient Rome on the other hand was an Italic civilization that emerged on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC (Mac Kendrick, 6). Over its turbulent 1200-year history, Ancient Rome developed from a little town into one of the most thriving regal powers ...

WINTER’S BONE (2010) -REALISM
Realism, as we know, is all about being truthful, and a realist will strive to preserve the point that their film is devoid of manipulations, and mirror the actual world. They try to engage amateurs to play the characters, use existing buildings or outdoor locations, and develop a theme based on everyday life. Historical movies are normally shot in black-and-white to elicit authenticity. The snippets of the World Wars, sets an example for these realists to corroborate such techniques into their movies, so that they too, breathe realism. Having said this, it does not surprise ...

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often synonymous to the remote controlled jet-like machines currently used by the military to conduct reconnaissance and stealth operations in major conflicts around the globe. Millions of dollars have been spent to produce these state-of-the-art machines in order to improve military operations in uncharted terrain. In recent years, manufacturers have managed to replicate the technology used by these million dollar machines and miniaturize them for commercial use. Many consumers use these drones for leisure or photography, but there are also groups using these drones for questionable activities like stalking, spying and even ...

The US military attempted to handle the Vietnam War with tactics similar to what they learned in World War II. In World War 2, they learned to make tank divisions and send those tanks as the lead-in attack force. After the tanks had bowed a hole into the rival ranks, the infantry was supposed to follow the tanks and protect the hole. The process was supposed to weaken the two halves and make it easier to handle and force into retreat. The plan was to work perfectly, but in the Vietnam jungle, they were unable to do so because the ...

Abstract

The focus of this research is on the shinkansen and the development of the shinkansen. The paper concentrates on the evolution of transport policies in Japan and what made shinkansen a symbol of modern Japan.

Introduction

Shinkansen Network covers the main islands of Japan and the country's major cities. The bullet trains are known as shinkansen in Japan and are operated by Japan Railways. They run at speeds of up to 320 km/h, and are well known for their punctuality, safety and comfort. Japan Rail Pass makes it very cost effective for the passengers to travel by Shinkansen. Tokaido Shinkansen is ...

American and Arabic films are fundamentally different as espoused in Lina Khatib’s article. In movies containing American and Arabic characters, American characters appear superior to their Arabic counterparts in the manner in which they are presented. This is clearly evident in the movie Lawrence of Arabia.
Lina Khatib’s categorically states that the outdoors scenes are masculine especially on the scenes from the desert and the harsh terrain which is more masculine (Khatib 24). The film scenes in Lawrence of Arabia are mostly shot in a harsh desert environment. A point to note though is that the Arabs ...

Exercise 3

Life as a Basket maker II band member living around 600 B.C.E. or 2600 years in the northern Southwest of northern Arizona and southern Utah proved extremely challenging during the short life expectancy of clan members only lasting 25 years for an adult. Traveling from the Phoenix area to the Colorado Plateau took the band through extremely rough terrain into basins and over mesas. The journey went through the land of the volcanoes where black hardened lava rock covered the cone shaped mountains left by volcanoes with the biggest occurring over 50,000 years ago. As a basket maker band, communal ...

Background

Tricia is CEO of Able Again, which is a non-profit organization: it partners with a for-profit organization for the manufacture of low-cost adapted motorized scooters for the disabled. She as requested advice from her ethics consultant regarding issues facing her company.
She has heard about ethical theories, which typically provide conflicting opinion. She wants her ethics consultant to compare and contrast them, with examples and in the context of her company’s issues. Her chief concern is to persuade her board about the advantages of being ethical in business practices. Secondly, she wants to learn a lesson from Ford Pinto case. ...

When an event that took place is only made known by eye witness account that makes it veracity somewhat questionable as you have people who may not remember or even record what they have seen. The onus is now on the people studying or searching out this piece of history to select from this eyewitness information what they perceive to be facts and what might not carry so much weight. The strike of 1947 and 1948 was one of such events even though it was a watershed event that took place in colonial Africa and wrought victory over the presiding ...

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Environmental Factors: Focus on General Motors Company
General Motors Corporation (GM) is an international company that deals in motor vehicles especially GMC SUV’S and other off-road vehicles, domestically and internationally, therefore, it conducts marketing at both levels of the motor vehicle market. With a supply chain of 396 facilities in six continents, producing 11 brands in 37 countries, GMC is one of the most successful automobile companies worldwide (General Motors, 2013). This is due to the 77 year lead in vehicle sales from 1931 to 2007 (Galligan, K., 2012).
This paper examines the effect of various environmental ...

Slide 1: Mission: The two U.S. objectives for the Guadalcanal campaign were to deny Japan the use of the Solomon Islands which would threaten the allied supply routes between the U.S. and Australia & New Zealand, and to control Guadalcanal & Tulagi in the Solomon Islands as bases, which were elements in future allied plans to neutralize the Japanese base at New Britain.
Slide 2: Enemy: To try once again to retake Henderson Airfield, Japan sent 7,000 troops plus equipment and 3 warship groups comprising in total between 18 and 20 ships, including a battleship, heavy & light cruisers and destroyers. ...

The Industrial Revolution caused increased change in America’s lifestyles, however those that lived in Appalachian regions were often less inclined to assimilate to these changes than other areas of the country. The areas of Appalachia include, “West Virginia, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.” Although most commonly when speaking about Appalachia the areas of eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina are the area’s most commonly associated with the term. These mountainous areas often cut off residents from civilization leaving an area that was far less technologically advanced ...

Slavery has existed in almost every century of recorded human history and for much of the time in many regions around the world. In all the diverse forms that slavery has assumed in different contexts, it has been synonymous with extreme degradation and often with brutality wherever it appeared. The brutalities begin from the time of the acquisition of slaves by their masters and continue until the moment when the slaves get their freedom. Violent resistance has been one of the typical tactics employed by slaves to gain their freedom. This paper gives the reasons that caused the Haitian ...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead has, as its original title, Reu nu pert em hru; translated to English, it means The Chapters of coming forth by day.
This book is, essentially, a series of chapters that consist of magic spells and special formulas, which are all written in papyrus. Such collection of texts for funerary purposes began to be found around 1600 BC in Egyptian tombs.
It is suppose that these texts, that gathered such spells and formulas, would be used by the deceased ones, throughout their Underworld journey. While in this journey in the Underworld, the dead ...

In the last 20 years, film and video have emerged to be predominant forms of current story telling. However, before the emergence of video, photography was still there. For the last 100 years, storytelling and photography went hand in hand. Telling a story using photos usually takes more than a skillful photographer. Therefore, only photographers who are skillful, and understand concepts and emotions behind ever-great story can develop a photo story that has more impact. In simple terms, a photo essay is a collection of pictures, which are placed in a particular order to narrate the progression of emotions, concepts, and events. Each human being ...

Introduction

Derived from three topics reported in New York Times articles on 13 August 1991, this essay discusses those three unrelated events, how and why they came about, and the consequences of the events described.

The three events reported were: a merger between BankAmerica and a Californian rival; the (then) recent increased levels of drugs smuggled through Panama following the U.S. invasion to depose and capture General Noriega two years previously; and a squabble between the members of the Education Board of New York and their manager Mr J Fernandez. Throughout the essay those three events are dealt with in the above order.

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Designed by Gerhard M. Kallmann, Noel Michael McKinnell and Edward F. Knowles, Boston City Hall, City Hall Plaza, is one of Boston’s landmarks with a futuristic and permanence architectural form depicted by the thick poured concrete and hard blocks which combine to produce a strong blocky structure. Built in the 1960’s, it is one of the architectural structures that combine elements of imagery to the public and formal elements without leaving out the historical allusion. The design of this structure depicts the attempt to create a lively city plaza and a building form that would represent: both in visual design and the ...

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Abstract

This paper presents an ...