Essays on Turtle

It is well-known that Native American cultures are characterized by their unbreakable connection with nature and peculiar spirituality which differs profoundly from that of Christians and other newcomers to the New World. The Cherokee and Iroquois tribes are distinguished by quite unusual and interesting perceptions of the world, origins of humans and morality, and these perceptions are embodies in Native oral traditions, cosmology and legends handed down from one generation to another. As Parker notes, “the creation story is for every group and for every person some form of coming to an awareness of their own existence, their world ...

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After conducting an analysis and assessment of corresponding scientific literature and recent updates in the news, it is possible to make a statement that the concern of sustainability and environmental protection is a rather urgent one on the international scales. At the same time, insignificant attention has been paid to the effect, made by the planned events on both built and natural environment. For instance, such events usually involve creation of the new infrastructure in the locations, which may be referred as environmentally-sensitive ones. In such cases, there is a need of transporting ...

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Systems of writing have been cited as one of the earliest and greatest inventions of human beings. Kanji is a broad term used to refer to logographic characters widely used in the Japanese writing system. In Japanese, Kanji simply means “Han Characters.” Kanji is therefore inherently Chinese which was adopted by the Japanese due to their close interactions in trade in the early years dating back to around 57AD (Rodgers 25). As a result, therefore, some modifications and alterations have been done on the initial Japanese Kanji to fit it into the Japanese language. Japanese Kanji has undergone tremendous ...

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An ecosystem is defined as the interaction of the organism and other nonliving factors in a certain community. The living components of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and other organisms, can be classified as the biotic component of the ecosystem, whereas the environmental conditions such as water amount, humidity, soil nourishment, temperature, and the like are termed as the abiotic factors. In an ecosystem, both the existing biotic and abiotic factors determine what kind of species live there. For example, turtles, which require a large amount of water to live in cannot possibly hope to survive in arid ...

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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 ...

Once there was a dynasty in China that ruled for a long time. The achievements they made for Chinese culture were many. But then the unthinkable happened the Shang dynasty was forgotten, and to some nothing more than a myth. In 1899 the Oracle Bones were rediscovered when a man went to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for dragon bones. He bought an old bone. He realized that the scratches were not random markings and showed it to his brother in law a notable historian. The two quickly went back to the pharmacy to find out where the ...

The General Assembly of the United Nations has stated that “Changes to the climate, brought about by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, will thus lead to changes in the oceans, including sea-level rise and ocean acidification, which will put marine ecosystems and coastal communities at risk. Most of these changes can be attributed to human activities and will negatively affect the animal inhabitants of the marine environment. Some effects of global warming on marine animals include changes in distribution, reduction of habitats and reductions in diversity and sex ratios. In the last hundred years, the rate ...

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The state of the natural world is always hanging in a delicate balance. No other creature on the planet has a deeper effect on the balance than humans do. Endangered and threatened species is the effect of human activity. Humans have an innate ability to create chaos in the world around them. The more a civilization is destroying the natural world, the worse the natural world becomes. This is evident by the numbers of endangered species that rises. It is difficult to center on just one single species and ignore the rest. Each species deserves to be recognized ...

In the article titled, ‘An explanation of a mini-guide programme: training local children in sea turtle conservation and ecotourism in Brazil,’ in vol. 11, no. 1, pp.48-55 of the Journal of Ecotourism in 2012, Pegas, Coghlan and Rocha explore a mini-guide program that was designed to train local children in Brazil in the conservation of turtles as well as ecotourism. The purpose of the study upon which the authors based the article was to elaborate on the features of the mini-guide program and explore how the community members in the locality where the program was implemented perceived the program. ...

Indigenous tribes have always honored life including nature; conserving natural resources for the long-term benefit of humanity (Talbot 273). With the present global capitalism, natural resources are under threat as a result of over-commercialization. Communities that guarded the sacredness of nature are also being controlled with the aim of making them extinct (Talbot 281). Over time, governments have gained control of the indigenous populations and their lands to gain commercially (Cosmic Vision News 1). The massive destruction of the environment and exploitation of natural resources through mining, pollution negatively affecting a specific ethnic group way of living constitutes an ...

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On the shores of the Gulf of Omen lies an almost dying city called Sur. Sur was the capital city of Ash Sharqiya Region before it was split into two. The primary activity in the city today seems like prayer and religion in general as most of the very few buildings in the city are mosques. The city only looks like what it used to be that what it is currently. The sea which is said to have been once the most active as a means of transport to East Africa looks deserted with only a few boats lying ...