Ocean Course Works Samples For Students

Iberian Expansion

In the fifteenth century, there was a rapid expansion in the Europe continents that affected almost all parts of the world. This was as a part of the world tendency toward the difficulties in the human being society. The rising states on the Europe fringe were the matching empires of the West Africa and the empires of the Aztecs, who were the rapid rising states in the Eurasian fringes. The countries involved in Europe included; England, Portugal, France and Spain. The navigation and development of trade in the Europe were encouraged by the development of the navigation technology by the Arab ...

Introduction to environmental studies

Three integrated elements of sustainability
The three integrated sustainability elements include the social, environmental and economic elements. They are identified to be interconnected.

What is an example of an initiative or decision that benefits people, the environment, and economic growth?

Some of the core items that are core in the environment include air and water. Careful purification of water and air is an initiative that is a beneficiary to the economic and environmental growth.

Population growth

How many people are currently on the planet?
According to United Nations statistics, the world population is approximately 7.04billion
What is the single most significant discovery/change in humanity’s way of living on the planet that has sparked the exponential ...

Visit the Virtual Caves website: http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/index.html. Briefly describe and provide an example of Solutional caves, Sea caves, Erosional caves, and Lava tube caves.
Solutional Caves: Solutional caves are formed by chemical reaction between the groundwater and the rock bedrock consisting of limestone. Ground water contains dissolved carbon dioxide which is a weak solution of carbonic acid and is capable of dissolving the rock slowly. This makes the passage of water wider and takes the shape of the cave. The most common example of solutional caves is flowstone. Flowstone is mostly composed of calcite and becomes rounder as it tends ...

Balanced Scorecard Approach, “A View from the Top”: The broader technique to explain the mission statement of the customer driven market that add only customer related details such as product, on-time-delivery, service, cost and product performance known as “Balanced Scoreboard Approach.” According to the chapter 2 of “Strategy and Performance” on page 30, has mentioned “Apple” example using “Balanced Card Approach” for introducing customer metrics (Fleisher & Mahaffy, 1997).

Apple is a company that market through product designing strategy. However, this customer driven strategy is effective only when customer expectations are meeting up. Moreover, ...

In 1968, the research vessel Glomar Challenger ventured on a year-long scientific expedition, between South America and Africa and drilled core samples at specific locations assigned to it. When tested, these samples provided the conclusion that proved the seafloor spreading hypothesis to be true. The JOIDES Resolution is a deep-sea drilling ship of the 1990s. This ship is capable of carrying more than 9,000 m of drill pipe. It is also known for its precise positioning and deeper drilling than the Glomar Challenger.

According to the maps and diagrams on the website, where are the major concentrations of the world's earthquakes? Where do most of the earthquakes in Europe occur?

The most important concentration of earthquakes occurs in the region so called Ring of Fire, which encircles ...

The paper addresses dive behavior of loggerhead turtles which are threatened species, and are distributed in temperate ocean basins. Within Pacific, loggerheads commonly comprises of two different genetic stocks; a South Pacific stock mainly originating from breeding sites within New Caledonia and Australia, and a North Pacific stock mainly originating from breeding sites within Japan.

Advances within satellite transmitter technologies have enabled researchers to gather geospatial data on loggerheads within different oceanic and coastal regions. This information have offered more understanding on turtle ecology, which have provided a way to explain migration trends during their life stages. Previous findings within the North ...

The 1982 Draft Convention of the Law of the Sea is a set of rules that governs the use of global oceans, the airspace, the seabed, and the subsoil below. It aims at balancing the interests of nations in controlling activities off their own coats and the nations’ interests in protecting their liberty to uses the waters without interference. The Convention addresses several issues such as exploitation and conservation of ocean resources, navigation and overflight of the oceans, marine scientific research, and protection of the marine environment (The United Nations, 2011).

The Bush Administration asked for this law to be ...

Alfred Wegener was a proficient German natural scientist in the field of Geology, astronomy and meteorology. He first presented his theory of continental drift in 1912. His significant scientific contribution was a unified theory for the continents origin.
Harry Hess was significant in the postwar revolution in the earth sciences. He initially drew up theories utilizing the considerable discoveries on ocean floor nature. He discovered 160 flat-topped summits on the bed of ocean, referred to as guyots.

Phoenicians are commonly known because of oceanography. These were the first individuals to navigate the seas and their civilization was based the life ...

Question 5 (a)

It has come to the attention of the audit firm that there are several issues surrounding the business operations of Ocean Manufacturing Inc that could deter the acceptance of the company as a client. This memo will clearly outline the reasons as to why the decision of not accepting the company as a client of the audit firm would be a viable choice. The factors identified are principal in any decision making process as they would save the reputation and time of the audit firm. Solutions to the problems observed in the company will be outlined so as to try uplifting the ...

The cost that is associated with ocean transport is a significant factor that heavily influences shipping and logistics. Time and size (product) constraints determine the mode of transport. In order to possibly overcome or reduce the cost of transportation of these products, one has the option to break bulk. To break bulk in shipping refers to the process of making the containerized product into smaller and easier to move. Using ocean transport in most cases takes more time to reach its destination as compared to using air as a mode of transport. The main advantage of ocean transport is that the ...

Water Resource Issues

Water resources refer to the sources of water that are harnessed by human beings for household purposes, agricultural, industrial use, recreational facilities like swimming pools and eventually for environmental activities. Besides human beings, all other forms of life on planet earth are entirely supported by the use of water. Out of all the water on planet earth, 97% is salty water while 3% is fresh water (Pearce, 2006). Examples of water resources include lakes, oceans, rivers, seas, ponds, and dams. What needs to be understood is that most of the human uses of water require fresh water.
There ...

Analysis of human failure contribution to process risk – The Case of Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico

Abstract

The Gulf of Mexico is considered to have accounted for roughly 90% of the complete offshore drilling in the United States of America in terms of the oil volume that is extracted. This number can be further equated to approximately one-third of the total production of oil in the United States of America. There are more than 50, 000 wells that have been drilled here since the year 1947 and of these 4,000 wells were dug deeper than 1, 000 ft. of water. As of date, more or less 80% of the total offshore drilling happens at a ...

1.Jupiter was the first. Giant lies just beyond the frost line. As the frost line accumulated great amounts of water via evaporation from infalling icy material, it created a zone of lower pressure that increased the speed of orbiting dust particles and halted their motion toward the Sun. As a result , the frost line acted as a barrier whice lead material to accumulate. This excess material coalesced into a huge embryo of around 10 Earth masses, which then began to grow rapidly by swallowing hydrogen from the surrounding disc, reaching 150 Earth masses in only another 1000 years and finally topping out at ...

Introduction

The Florida area is renowned for its attractive and unique coral reef. The coral reef system that exists in this area serves as the natural habitat to many reef-dwelling species. Some of the well-known species are the Gag Grouper, which are considered very important to the fishermen. However, in the past 40 years, there has been a significant decrease in the coral reef cover in South Florida. It is estimated that over half of the native Oculina Varicosa coral that exists off the Florida coast has been ruined since the early 70’s, and there is very little evidence to ...

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In order to keep people as safe as possible during an earthquake special building codes have been developed for houses, roads, buildings and bridges. The United States Geological Society (USGS) uses the best seismic science available to keep up-to-date maps that show levels of danger from the lowest hazard to highest standard. These maps help cities know what level of building codes they need.

There are four areas of the United States that demonstrate the highest level danger: along the coast of the Pacific Ocean including Hawaii, southern Alaska, on the coast near the Atlantic Ocean in South ...

Introduction

Global warming and pollution has led companies to rethink their activities concerning green methods of production. Carbon dioxide emissions are the leading cause of global warming and the dangers of global warming have been documented for a long time. Governments have come up with restrictions on emissions, which have forced companies to re-think the way they do production. Quest carbon capture and storage project is one example of how companies are re-thinking their strategy and practice towards carbon emissions. This project is developed by Shell for its Athabasca oil sands project (AOSP) in Alberta. It is the first carbon capture ...

Incentives to Conserve Marine Biodiversity

Practitioners of marine biodiversity conservation are progressively turning to approaches based on incentives. They hope it is going to persuade people to modify behaviors that negatively affect natural habitat and marine biodiversity. The government took too long to get involved, but now they are. More hope is visible as far as saving marine life is the discussion. The essay discusses incentives to conserve marine biodiversity within the framework of impure public goods by analyzing externalities, technology and economic incentives involved.

Impure Public Goods

Goods that are consumed by everyone in society or no one at all are referred to as public goods. ...

Introduction

Currently, coal-fired power plants account for more than 80% of carbon dioxide emissions in the electric power industry of the United States and 33% of all the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Consequently, reducing carbon dioxide emissions that come from the coal plants is the focus of most proposals that intend to cut on the greenhouse gas emission. The options to do this include capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide that emitted by the coal power plants, replacing the coal power plants with the low or zero carbon dioxide sources of power like the nuclear and wind energy.

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The Goals Of Sustainability are as follows:

- The common greenhouse gases which affect the global climate are carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. The appropriate amounts of these gases are required for maintaining the right temperature in the environment for the existence of life. However, if there are no gases the temperature would drop to 0°C or even below and if there is too much of these gases the temperature would become very hot. So a balance between the gases is necessary for the existence of normal life on the earth. Normally, all the greenhouse gases are transparent which ...

Abstract

The problem of climate change and its effects to living organisms such as humans has already been proven by many studies and now many are questioning if Natural Hazards such as Hurricanes can be affected by this change. Hurricanes are known in many names in regions, given their formation type and their composition. It also is a common calamity in the Northern Atlantic and in the Pacific, the latter naming hurricanes as tropical cyclones. The debate upon the effects of climate change in hurricanes is still contested by scientists. On the one hand, some scientists have seen the evidences that ...

Impacts of Petroleum Exploration, Extraction and Transport

Oil shale may be defined as those rocks that usually contain a high proportion and percentage of organic matter such as kerogen. Oil shale is mainly characterized by the low calorific value as well high ash and even mineral content. Oil usually produces energy, which serves a very crucial purpose to our planet. Energy is regarded as the lifeblood of the planet earth and its occupants, thereby, being categorized as among the essential commodities that normally powers the intentions to expand the global economy (Burnham, Stubblefield, & Campbell, 1980). In the 1950s, natural gas and oil became the primary sources of liveliness ...

Community Location

According the population census conducted in 2000, the total population of District 13 is 106, 120. However it has been observed that the population of the region has been on the rise. The people in the district live in different locations. These locations include; the Coney Island the Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach, Homecrest and the Sea Gate.

The Coney Island is an urban residential neighborhood located in the Southwestern side of Brooklyn in New York City. The Coney Island is around 4 miles long and half a mile wide. The Coney Island creek that ...

The painting “American Progress” by John Gast came to symbolize America’s role on the world stage by the end of the 19th century. The painting has come to symbolize the expansion as well as national destiny. In this painting, one sees the woman “Columbia” moving westward carrying a school book and stringing telegraph wires as she moves westward. This symbolizes the “conquest” of the United States onwards to the Pacific Ocean – one sees the Native Americans bowed as they too move westward to avoid the onslaught of the White man. Columbia is stringing telegraph wires, ...

Introduction

Security of people in the United States remains one of the top priorities of President Barack Obama’s government. It is thus therefore not unusual to find the United States in conflict with nations which tend to threaten world peace. The Iranian and Syrian conflicts are some of the latest examples of this situation. This is because the two nations are suspected to be in possession of nuclear plants which pose a threat to the safety of many people around the world.

Stakeholders in the Nuclear Energy Sector

The major stakeholders in the nuclear community comprise of national regulatory authorities, industrialists, and environmentalists. Other stakeholders include ...

A. Justify your choice of one significant environmental or physical geographic factor that contributed to the development of one early human society from the following list:

• Mesopotamia

• Indus River Valley

• Yellow River Valley

• Egypt

• Andean civilizations

As referred above, the development of Indus Valley civilisation took place at the time when other important early civilisations like Egyptian and Mesopotamian were fostering. The single akin significant environmental or physical geographic factor that is evident in the progression is the role of the aquatic presence around.

The human society arouses in the vicinity of Indus Valley From 3500 to 2600 BC. In this era, the watercourse supplemented human race with options of food and shelter that eventually became the motivation for long ...

World War I started in 1914 and ended in 1914. It was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The conflict between the Allies and the Central Powers resulted in deaths of about 15 million combined military and civilian personnel (Gerd, 1977). The Allies consist of countries such as France, United Kingdom, and Russia. On the other hand, the Central Powers composed primarily of Austria-Hungary and Germany. In this war, mankind came to know and use chemical warfare. Initial chemicals used in warfare include gases such as tear gas, chlorine, phosgene, and mustard ...

The various services offered by Air Asia include:

- Flight booking services .
- Low fare finder .
- Customized travel .
- Inflight comfort services .
- Island and City Transfers .
- Travel insurance .
- Airport bus ticketing service in Malaysia region .
- Tune Talk Sim card in the Malaysia region .
- Fly thru service .
Fly thru service offers convenience to customers as it allows customers to connect seamlessly on multiple flight legs . Customers need not go through the security checks while connecting with other flights when they use this service .

Non-customers

Non-customers include customers that are about to turn away or ...

1) The phenomenon of military slavery became nearly universal from Egypt to Central Asia in the medieval period. Many Europeans were shocked at the thought that the roles held by kings, nobility, and aristocracy were held by soldiers of such humble beginnings. Discuss this phenomenon, what accounted for it and why did it become so widespread?

Most of the existing work that has been published about slavery focuses on the transportation of slaves into Europe and the extreme west across the Atlantic Ocean into America. However, records of the booming Sahara-Indian Ocean Slavery business that existed since the seventh ...

East coast fisheries in Canada were no strangers to exporting, with $2.3 billion in product, mostly lobster, going to the United States. New transportation technology was opening up an efficient way for them to reach Europe - the largest seafood market in the world.

Love That Lobster

Canada leads the world in production of lobster (20%) and in exports about 33% of the total produced. Canada has a competitive advantage because of a productive fishery on the east coast and the desirability of the lobsters there.

While many recipes make use of lobsters or lobster parts, whole live lobsters are considered a special treat. A ...

1) Explain how the outward flow of energy from the Earth’s interior drives the process of plate tectonics?

The outermost layer of earth, or lithosphere, is broken up into tectonic plates. The boundaries of the plates and their movement leads to the formation of earthquakes, volcanic activity, creation of mountains, and the formation of oceanic trenches. Tectonic plates are formed from either oceanic crust or continental crust, with many containing both. The movement of the plates varies from 0-100mm in a given year. The movement of these plates comes from the outward energy of flow that comes from earth’s central core. Radioactivity produced from elements within earth’s core, such as uranium, decay and release energy. The ...

Question 1

Jupiter was the first giant planet formed.

Question 2

According to the Nice theory where did the Kuiper belt objects and Oort cloud objects come from?

Kuiper belt objects come from the out edge of Solar System where huge spheres made of rock and ice that circle around Pluto’s orbit. The objects took their name from Gerard Kuiper who suggested that comets may come from the Kuiper belt. This group of planetoids is called Kuiper belt objects (KBO). The first KBO named “1991 QB1” was discovered in 1992. The plant Pluto also belongs to the group of KBO. Some ...

Evaluate the costs and benefits (both economically and socially) of using coal, oil, and natural gas. In your evaluation provide pros and cons for which each energy source
The cost and benefits of using coal, oil, and natural gas is that they are less costly and efficient in their use in comparison with other sources of energy such as firewood.

The pros of using coal, oil, and natural gas include the following;

The pros of using coal are that it produces large quantities by products such as petroleum and gases. The cons of using coal are that it ...

Decades before even Columbus discovered the New World, Zheng He, a Chinese explorer had already made a number of successful voyages (Little 469). Zheng He, was a devoted Muslim and a eunuch, and among the most successful commanders of his time. Within a short time between 1405 and 1433, Zheng He led at least seven successful expeditions. This is one of his greatest accomplishments that Zheng He is celebrated for.

Zheng he was a man of huge physique (Littel 469). Given the situation at the time, it is amazing how he was able to lead the largest ever maritime expedition. This particular expedition had 300 ...

Introduction

Management is to an organization what a driver is to a car. The decisions made by the management team are vital in the direction that the organization takes. Any pitfalls that an organization might face are resultant from the decisions that management might have made or failed to make. It is therefore imperative that management assumes leadership styles that reflect an understanding of the important roles that they play (Keyton, 2011). This paper will analyze a case of management issues in an organization that have had far and wide reaching implications for the organization as a whole, the immediate surroundings and the globe.

Background

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The dramatic dynamics to the today’s ideas and cultural practices can be traced back from the explorations and discoveries which took place five centuries ago. The exploration of the new world is driven by curiosity and demand for goods and resources as famine, war and diseases have become inseparable with mankind.

The Darwin’s discovery on origin of species in 1859 opened up anthropology, geology and paleontology. During World War 1, the Germans invented U-boat for breathing in deep submersion and propulsion. They were later standardized into naval warfare ships and diving gears with modern technology e.g. remote ...

The New England Colonies comprise the modern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The New England region did not enjoy the same diversity, as did the Middle Colonies to their south. In Massachusetts, Plymouth Colony was one of the earliest colonies, settled by the British Pilgrims in 1620. The tensions created by the role of theocracy, status, wealth, land led Rodger Williams to establish Providence, and began the settlement Rhode Island. Other settlements in Connecticut, including Wethersfield and New Haven were established in a like manner, and for much the same reasons.

The Middle Colonies ...

Several geographic and environmental factors play significant roles in shaping trade and commerce. A nations’ development relies on these factors to ensure sustainability and in most cases these environmental factors affect human migration and settlement. Migration patterns and networks allow societies of different backgrounds to interact and create new communities amongst themselves. Ancient civilizations such Mesopotamia and Egypt experienced similar developments based on the environment. The United States too could attribute its development in trade and commerce due to geographical factors such as location and climate. This research evaluates the impact of these two environmental factors on the development ...

Water Resource Plan

Water is the major fundamental element for the existence of all life forms. Water has a molecule that is composed of one atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen. It exists in three different states: gaseous state, solid state and liquid state. It is mostly in its liquid state and it is mainly found in large water bodies such as lakes, oceans, seas, rivers, dams, and ponds. Clean water is vital for the survival of life be it for animals, human or even plants. Due to its function as a universal solvent, water has a major role in the world economy ...

Summary
This proposal is aimed at analyzing the extent of the crime rates in Pacifica. Among the issues, which will be addressed, include the impact of the crime rates in the youth population, the impact on the country resources, the impact on the economy, and the impact on the political system. The main questions, which will guide this proposal, include:

• What is the extent to which the economy of the country has been affected by the increasing crime rates?
• What forms of crime and imminent here?
• Is the police force taking any action in combating crime?
• What are ...
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