Essays on Exploration

Christopher Columbus is vastly recognized for “discovering” America. While in search of Asia, Columbus’ had unknowingly landed upon North America. The “Admiral of the Sea” had used what is known as dead reckoning, which is using one’s previous position to calculate the current position by using estimated speed over a certain amount of time. Dead…

Supercontinent that existed in the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic 335-175 million years ago. He united the continents that existed at that time – Gondwana, Laurussia and Siberia. The name Pangea was coined and published by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Pangea consisted of several large continental blocks, soldered together by collisional mountain systems. Stretched along…

Explorers, or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill? Title ridicules ‘explorers’ and makes them seem immature through the use of ‘boys’ Helicopter duo plucked from life-raft after Antarctic crash? Use of ‘plucked’ makes the explorers seem useless and helpless. Aims to embarrass them and make the reader scoff at how humorous it…

In the early 1500s, almost four and a half centuries before men first orbited the earth; an expedition completed and led by Ferdinand Magellan performed a task of comparable significance for that time period. Magellan, a Portuguese navigator for Spain, sailed westward with a fleet of five ships from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda…

Research is the exploration of a hypothesis or question using a systematic method to discover an answer. The key to the concept of research as opposed to simply guessing at answers is the systematic approach it employs. This systematic approach is commonly referred to as the Scientific Method. Without the Scientific Method research would loose…

An Exploration of a Needs Orientated Approach to Care Planning The aim of this assignment is to explore a needs orientated approach to care, and use a model of nursing – Roper, Logan and Tierney (RLT) model – to formulate a care plan. The RLT model of nursing is based on 12 activities of daily…

A reaserch team has discovered evidence that the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, may date from 5000 and 7000 BCE and possibly earlier. In response , archeoligist have thrown mud at geologist, historians caught in the middle, and the Sphinx , having revealed one secret, challenges us to unravel even greater The dicovery originated half…

Spain wanted a lot of things. It wanted to expand its knowledge of the world that they had never seen. They also wanted to have a larger empire, find spices and other riches, and expand Christianity. The fundamental aspect of the voyages that were undergone by Spain was to acquire gold and silver to pay…

Their health is not as good as the younger generation and they may visit the hospital ND doctors often. They are set in old ways from their past and don’t like to experience new ideas or change. Many are racist because this is how they grew up. 2) When you think about working professionally with…

Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460, in Tierra de Campos Paleia, in Leon, Spain ( Ponce, 1996 ) . He came from a baronial household and entered the royal family as a page for Pedro Nunez de Guzman, at the Court of Aragon. Later, immature Ponce de Leon would go a solider for…