Essays on Tahiti

Introduction

The global usage of gasoline and other sources of energy will continue to increase over the next few decades as populations grow and developing countries expand their consumption of world resources. This implies that energy producers must increase their supply of energy as well as consider alternative sources of energy. There is an ever-growing appetite for crude oil and other sources of energy, with the projection of worldwide energy consumption to increase by more than 40 percent by 2035 (Chevron Corporation, 2013). The growing demand for energy results from the population that is predicted to increase by 25 percent ...

There have been climatic changes over the years that have led to the development of research in the meteorological department. Certain climatic changes have led to the occurrence of one event or the other. All the parts of the world face climatic changes in one way or the other. However, some parts of the world become more affected than others due to differences in landscape and the overall environment (Miller 2007). In Australia, one of the reasons why there have been variations in climate is due to the existence of the Southern Oscillation. In some instances, the southern oscillation ...

The Presentation of the ‘Primitive’ in Early Twentieth Century Art

In the early Twentieth Century, the idea of the ‘primitive’ was one which was prevalent across the world of civilisation. This was, in part, due to the massively widespread British Empire which, as it loosened its grip on its colonies, began to leave a mass of different types of people all left to re-find their place in the world. In short, the term ‘primitive’ was one used to describe individuals who did not fit in with the western ethnocentric view of the world: white, Christian and adheres to the social expectations of upper class Britain. As all fashions and morbid ...