Essays on Swamp

Miopithecus ogouensis – Gabon talapoin

The Gabon talapoin (Miopithecus ogouensis) is a small species of monkey found not only in Gabon but in other African countries including Angola, Congo, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Its range includes the Ogooue River, after which it was named but extends to other riparian habitats from the equatorial forest zone south of the Sanaga River in southern Cameroon to other tributaries of the Congo River including the Lefini and Almira Rivers . Although the monkey is listed as being of least concern in the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species , it is suffering significant wide-ranging habitat decline. Nowak has found ...

Introduction

Climate change is among the significant factors impacting ecological diversity on a worldwide scale. The growth of industries and the increasing human population globally have resulted in a rise in the volume of greenhouse gasses, which scientists have argued are the greatest contributors to the menace. The Florida Keys is one of the ecological treasures of the U.S. that continues to be impacted negatively by climate change and anthropogenic activities. This ecological treasure, which is located at the tip of the state of Florida, comprises about 1,700 islands that stretch for more than 200 miles to the west ...

Introduction

There is abundant evidence that the United States government should take action on problems such as the number of handguns and automatic weapons in circulation around the country. It is important that gun owners register their weapons in order to control the problem of gun-related killings and violence. The United States has repeatedly and steadily reduced the funds for public agencies that manage gun control and that monitor gun-related laws. American policies, politicians, and pro-gun supporters approach the situation from such opposite perspectives that all discussions about gun control legislation seem to devolve into hysterical rhetoric. Many countries around ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

The advert that I have chosen is the Jack Daniel’s promotional advert of its new product, Tennessee Honey.

Source: "Jack Daniel's: Bees." Cosmetic Appeal/ Use of Color/ Use of White Space This particular advertisement aims at influencing the manner in which other consumers view themselves factoring in the beneficial aspects that buying such a product can bring to them. In the advert, a crowd is shown attracted to the product which in essence indicates a combination of social and humor appeals which makes consumers to laugh and build an emotional attraction to the product.

Typography

Typography, as we all know refers to texts arrangements aimed at passing product advertisement’s information to consumers. In Jack Daniel’s case, ...

Introduction:

Capability deprivation is definitely a more effective way to combat poverty then simply raising the poor’s incomes. This will mean that those who are currently in a situation of unhappiness and deprivation will eventually be lifted out of this terrible environment where they cannot arrive at any sort of goals in their lives. In her seminal essay, Amartya Sen argues that poverty must first be seen as the deprivation of the ten specific cabailities which mean that humans lead a basically healthy and happy life. She also argues that the mere increase in comes will do nothing more than lift people ...

The early 1900s was a turbulent era for America. As World War I raged in Europe, the Spanish flu ravaged nations and communities around the world, leading to the death of millions, and becoming one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of mankind. While America dealt with the aftermath of prohibition and the Great Depression, Russia and Ireland were engulfed in civil war, leading to major political shifts that reverberated throughout the Western hemisphere. It is no wonder, then, that some historians and scholars refer to this decade as “The Crazy Years” (Lamb 195). The sentiments of ...

About the Book

Ishmael Beah writes his life experience as an unwilling child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war in the account called A Long Way Gone. At the age of 12 years the village Beah called home is attacked but he escapes the violence because he is with a group of his friends elsewhere performing rap music. In the village where they visited for their rap fun they heard about the attack on their village “According to the teachers, the rebels had attacked the mining areas in the afternoon. The sudden outburst of gunfire had caused people to run for their ...

Impact of Modernism on Visual Arts

Introduction Modernism refers to a philosophical drift that, along with cultural tendencies and alterations, sprang up from far-reaching and extensive shifts in Western society over the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artwork has transformed over the centuries and one artist, known as Picasso is best recognized as one of the authors of Cubism, though he utilized many styles during his career. The paper explores the modernism in the visual arts and discusses The Old Guitarist and the Les demoiselles d' Avignon art within the historical and cultural context in which they got created.

The Les Demoiselles d'Avignon art ...

Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamic

Ecological systems are dynamic by nature and constantly feel the influence of climate variability. Since the structure and functioning of forest ecosystems are controlled by climatic factors through metabolic function, it may change in the future dynamics of forest restoration, growth, progress and growth of tree mortality, as well as the relationship of rocks. It is expected that climate change will be faster than the rate at which ecosystems can adapt and repair itself. Ecosystems of the North must first of all respond to possible global warming because of climate-driven ecosystem response reveals itself most clearly. At high ...

Introduction

Mexico is among the world’s top ten tourist destinations. The country is recognized for its ancient relics and beach resorts worldwide. The country’s varied cities, climate, and landscape provide the tourists with a broad range of travel experiences. Tourism Mexico divides the country into six main tourist areas including Central Mexico, Baja Peninsula, Pacific Coast, Southern Mexico and Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, and Northern Mexico. Nonetheless, the tourism industry in Mexico has of late experienced some highly publicized disasters and violent events, which have essentially called into question that it is secure to visit this nation. Some ...

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SECTION 1: LESSON INFORMATION

Estimated level of development: Are very Social and emotional although, understanding when it comes to instruction. Fundamental skill to be taught: The students will learn how to perform balancing, jumping rope, leaping, hopping, pushups, and crunches NASPE Standards This lesson plan will make use of NASPE’s standard 2 and standard 3 Standard 2: The physically literate individual applies knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies and tactics related to movement and performance. Standard 3: The physically literate individual demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and ...

The evident identity of Louisiana as an exceptional yet unique kind of integrated cultures has been captured using many phrases by many scholars. This savory mixture has also been identified alongside its historical dishes, gumbo. Capturing this unique and complex assortment of cultures has eluded many scholars, researchers and anthropologists. Some authors have however come close to identifying this complex assortment describing tradition, folk life and folklores. A major event labeled Louisiana Purchase that occurred in 1803 played a major role in shaping the future of this state. This marked a major experiment to incorporate the very diverse state into ...

The moon rises high in the sky, its silvery light creating an eerier aura, as the screams of a woman echoes through the landscape. The creature turns its head attracted by the sounds of pain and fear as it rips through the veil between the living and dead. “The night of Samhain,” it thinks, “the perfect night for escape.” As the time when the veil between the living and dead is the thinnest, Samhain is the time signally the end of lightness and the beginning of darkness. Exhausted creature slides down to the Earth, the first time it had been ...

A Thesis

Graduate Faculty of the Requirements for the Degree 2013 All Rights Reserved Introduction This project will focus on the botanical Family Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes, Louisiana. These parishes are spatially adjacent but are distinguished by different ecological habitats, making them botanically diverse. Lafayette Parish contains a prairie complex, St. Martin Parish has large areas of swamps, rivers, and lakes. The only recent publications on the identification and distribution of the Apiaceae in Louisiana occur in) and the USDA Plants database (plants.usda.gov 2011, and Thomas and Allen 1996). Since little is known about ...

The Formation of the U.S. Federal Government

ABSTRACT Review of the movie "The Patriot" provides a vastly entertaining supposition of the efforts of the South Carolina colony's Continental Army actions in fighting the British Empire's army on the road to creating the federal government. Admittedly, loosely based on important characters in this vital area of American history as well as combinations of important battles making up dynamic and visually exciting scenes, "The Patriot" serves more as a springboard for academic investigation of the facts depicted fictionally in the movie specifically connected to the main character of Benjamin Martin based on ...

Background

Over the past 100 years, more than 60 percent of world’s wetlands have been destroyed as people search for land to settle on, farm, and establish other types of business investments. Currently, wetlands cover 6 percent of the world’s surface providing a wide array of environmental services, including soil erosion control, water storage and filtration, a buffer against flooding, biodiversity maintenance, nutrient recycling, nursery for fisheries, and carbon storage among others.

However, destruction and drainage of these ecosystems has led to large amounts of carbon emissions equivalent to 40 tons of carbon per hectare per year for degraded swamp ...

Every organization requires a strong and active participation of its members of staff. This directs the articulation of organizational agenda and how it ultimately enhances performance and creativity, whilst retaining the scarce resources available in the organization (Paquette 4). As an alligator in an organizational swamp, I would be an alligator of the largest and rarest species. The organizational swamp denotes the need for each and every species in the swamp to survive, procreate and thrive. The need to develop survival mechanisms, apply them and ensure that survival is attained is crucial at each and every level in the swamp. My ...

Ridicule is a French movie that seeks to bring an understanding of how matters were at the time of the French revolution. It is based in the 18th Century around the court of Versailles where moral decadence is so rampant. The social status of individuals in the story can rise and fluctuate depending on one’s ability to win in witty duels and steer away from any form of self ridicule which is very similar to the way matters were in France in the 18th Century.1

Aiming at exposing the social injustices in France at the time, the story revolves ...

Introduction

A great script full with twists and unpredictability influences the success of a film to a great extent. The 2003 award-winning film adaptation, a comedy drama written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze exemplifies creativity in filmmaking. It is wickedly playful in construction and records the torments of a screenwriter who is not adept at writing a movie about orchids. Ironically, the film manages to have the story effectively told in a captivating and exceptionally creative manner by incorporating two lines of stories into one. The film narrates the true story of Charlie Kaufman and his struggles to adapt the book The Orchid ...

Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River: Parts I and II

If it were not mentioned in the question for part one, I would have missed the idea that Nick is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From this brief section of Hemingway’s writing, it is hard to know the experiences Nick has been through that caused PTSD. However, his comfort with absolute isolation from humanity is one indicator that he has suffered, and his independence in his camping as a self-healing experience lend to the idea that he has faced an ordeal he is escaping from. The descriptions of the stream and the trout, as Nick observes ...

Beowulf starts with the history of the royal Danish family for several generations. “So. the Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.” But it is mostly about the life of Beowulf himself. It is more than just the history of the Danes though. It is about the right way for a warrior to live and die.

The poem starts with Shield Sheafson, who was a great king. He was a foundling, who became a great king. When he died, he was given an elaborate funeral. His son, Beow inherited the throne, followed by his son ...

UNESCO: Los Katios National Park

The Los Katios National Park is found in the north-western territory of Columbia, near the Darien/Uraba region of the Choco and Antioquia Departments. The park was constructed in 1973, to cover 52,000 hectares, but by 1979, the park was extended to 72,000 hectares. The Natural National Park Division of the Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (INDERENA) currently manages the park and is directly accounted for by the Ministry of Agriculture. According to Thorsell, Sawyer and the World Heritage Committee (1992) the park is under a tropical rainforest ecosystems zone, which can be determined by the park’ ...

Q1. Stanner's assessment of the Dreaming is the aboriginal idea of a communal afterlife, which is eternal and ongoing. Human beings have 'souls,' as do every other living creature; these lifeforms help to create a complicated system that leads back to the Totemic Spirit Beings that exist within the Dreaming, forming the Creation. I believe that it can most certainly be described as a dualism, due to the fact that the Dreaming exists both before and after the individual life; it inhabits both flesh and spirit, and blends the physical and spiritual worlds together. Peterson, N. 1976. ‘The Natural and ...

Introduction

This ecosystem is known as the mangrove swamp of the Borneo Island which is a peat swap forest that is located along the coasts of two different countries which are the Indonesia and Malaysia. It is an ecosystem that has been considered to be an ecosystem within the tropical wet climatic zone.

The abiotic component is made up of peat soil. The soil is acidic and usually nutrient deficient. The soil in the region is known to be rarely flooded and associated with the building up of organic matter. The major biotic components are those animals’ species that are either ...