Essays on Landmass

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings by Dale Mackenzie Brown.

In 1721, Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary discovered that the Norse were no longer inhabiting the two settlements that they had established around 1000 A.D. Since then there has been many debates on the cause of their disappearance and decline. For long, the theories about their disappearance centered around the oral traditions of the Inuits. The Inuit tradition held that the demise of the Norse was due to the contact between the Inuit and the Norse which was often aggressive (Seaver 1996, 119). In recent years however, owing to expanding archaeological findings and other limited documentary evidence there have ...

Abstract

Land and rockslides are natural disasters that threaten people living in the Sultanate of Oman. In this paper, the fundamentals of disaster management are identified from their causes. First, the aspect of slope stability is covered. The involvement of this information follows the need to appreciate the vulnerability of mountainous regions to mass movement. The causes of mass movement are also explained. Further, the risks of rock and landslides are expanded with the intention of directing the focus of the paper. To be objective, the paper progresses to a review of the measures employed by the government of Oman ...

Critical Thinking

The 1803 purchase of Louisiana from France had a profound effect on America; it not only changed the geography of the country but also its social, political and economic pillars. The purchase, which occurred during the term of President Thomas Jefferson, had the effect of almost doubling the landmass of America (Fleming, 46). It would be interesting to evaluate America's continental and global position had the purchase not taken place. This is especially the case given that the country would have had access to the Gulf of Mexico hence denying farmers on the frontier an opportunity to engage in ...

Critical thinking

Thomas Jefferson remains in history as one of the cornerstones of America's foreign policy. Often forced to strike a balance between the threats of war and alliance, he tended to believe more in non-interference (Hayes, 36). He probably never anticipated the great role foreign policy would play during his presidency given that he never alluded to it in his inaugural speech as president. Loved as much at it is loathed, his foreign policy must be looked at objectively Criticisms of his foreign policy from his successors and the public often have the advantage of retrospect yet for Jefferson; international ...

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Benefits of Solar Energy

Abstract There are various sources of energy in the world and these sources include wind energy, tidal powers, solar energy, thermal power, energy from fossil fuel and so forth. Moreover, this alternative renewable energy source can facilitate in minimizing the greenhouse effect. Solar energy has been in use for a long time; however, immense advancement in the field is only taking place in the recent past. The solar technologies can be outlined into two classes ...

Became Integrated

The Eurasian landmass has witnessed the spread of such major religions as Christianity and Islam. It is also where knowledge of philosophy, science and technology originated, shaping Western culture and thought. This cultural melting pot flourished because the peoples of the Eurasian landmass have been linked along cultural, religious and political lines for centuries; trade and war among other factors, stimulated the sharing of social experiences and improvements in technology and agriculture. The purpose of this essay is to explain how the integration of Eurasia came about between 1000 and 1600 CE up to eventual integration of the Americas ...

Abstract

Afro-Caribbean are people from Africa who migrated in the Caribbean Islands. Art by Afro-Caribbean is still tightly connected to the concept of provincial identity and inherited heritage. It is as well believed to stay Afro- Caribbean beliefs are pluralistic, thus share wide-ranging historical proficiencies. The type of art fashioned by many Afro-Caribbean people are said to be modern. This is evident with the local arts that existed in vast places of the island even before the 20th century added by the works of itinerant artists from Europe. Happy to be distinguished with their Caribbean roots, they became more focused ...

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), the ecosystem under study, is situated in the foothills of the Himalayas i.e. the Shiwalik range and falls within Nainital and Pauri Garhwal districts of the state of Uttarakhand. Corbett National Park (CNP), 520.82 km2, and 301.18 km2 of adjoining Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary along with 466.32 sq.km of buffer zone together forms 1288.32 km2 of the tiger reserve (Barthari 12). CTR lies between 290 25’ N to 290 40’ N latitudes and 78 05’E to 790 5’E longitudes (see Fig. 1). Figure 1: Location map of Corbett Tiger Reserve.

CLIMATE

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Introduction

In the scientific world, many radical scientific principles go through a tumultuous progression before the scientific community accepts them. This was the case with the continental drift theory, a landmark theory in geology. When it was proposed, the scientific community received the continental drift theory with ridicule. However, with time, the theory underwent a series of reinforcement from accumulating evidence in support of the theory. In the end, it emerged as the greatest geological principle of all time. The continental drift theory was the brainchild of Alfred Wegener. Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist born in 1980. He acquired a PhD in astronomy from ...

OUTLINE

Introduction: My origin

I. Hobbies a) Watching sports i) Football ii) Basketball iii) Swimming competition b) Playing i) Soccer ii) Tennis II. Ethnic and Racial background a) African b) Somali III. How boys and girls are raised in Somali a) Raised as per the norms of Islam religion i) Attend Quran teaching classes ii) Taught Arabic and farming b) Education was for the rich IV. Religion a) History of Islam religion b) Progress of Somali religion in Somalia c) I read Quran V. migration information a) Moving to Unites States of America ...

1 Is there some action you think qualifies as being objectively right or wrong? That is, some action that everyone should see as proper and moral because it is really bad and not just bad because someone or some culture says it is bad? If you think you have a candidate, tell us what it is and make sure you give some reasons why you think it is objective. If you don’t think there are any objective values, explain why. Laws and social mores have been developed and re-worked for millennia, often using religious thought as a catalyst. Humanity ...

Introduction

Human activity and natural forces have endangered some of the most resourceful regions in the world. This has a direct impact not only to the communities living in the regions but also to the ecosystem. Campaigns for the conservation of natural resources have exhibited an increasing trend especially in America. The campaigns have been done using different media such as books, magazine and newspaper articles, the internet, television and radio documentaries as well as books emphasize on the need to conserve wildlife especially in the Amazon rainforests, African savannas and the Arctic refuges. Tidwell’s book explores the alarming losses ...

Figure 8A-2, the map showing Tectonic Evolution of South Asia, provides a fascinating view of the post-Pangea movement of the India plate (de Blig, Muller, and Nijman 406). Many times, people imagine that Pangea represents a time when continents moved apart, but as this map demonstrates, it is also a time when landmasses came together in new ways. Fifty-five million years ago, the land mass that is known as India today was over 1800 kilometers south of the Eurasian plate, in the southern hemisphere of the world well below the equator. Slowly, the India landmass moved northward until about ten million years ...