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Cultural Relativity: the Root Cause of Conflict in Nigeria
Cultural relativism
Culture
Nigeria
Nigeria is a diverse country with more than 250 distinct ethnic groups. Culture plays a pivotal role in shaping individuals and impacting their identities, encompassing beliefs, habits, modes, and attitudes developed through experiences within a specific environment. Culture arises from the interactions and interpretations of individuals’ experiences. The classical ethnic groups in Nigeria, such as…
Environmental Phenomenon of Acid Rain
Acid Rain
Air Pollution
Pollution
What is acid rain? Acid rain is the term for pollution caused when sulfur and nitrogen dioxides combine with atmospheric moisture. The term ‘acid rain’ is slightly misleading, and would be more accurate if deemed ‘enhanced acid rain’, as rain occurs acidic naturally. Acidity is measured on what is know as the pH scale. Fourteen…
The Nehru Planetarium Sample
India
Indian Culture
The Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi is situated in the green milieus of the Teen Murti House. earlier the official abode of India’s first Prime Minister. Jawaharlal Nehru and now a museum in his memory. Conscious of the fact that an apprehension of the spirit and method of scientific discipline was important for kids to…
Where do metamorphic rocks originate? How are they formed?
Nature
Looking at its creation, metamorphic rocks are previous sedimentary and igneous rocks that underwent different chemical changes which resulted in a new rock form. “Metamorphic rocks are formed when other kinds of rocks are changed by great heat and pressure inside the earth” (Koday, 1998). Seeing such development, different outcomes are formed depending on the…
Wheat Winter Wheat
Winter
WHEAT Wheat from which flour is made, is the most essential grain used in bread making because it is the only cereal that contains the proper combination of glutenin and gliadin. When two proteins glutenin and gliadin, are mixed with water will formed a gluten. Gluten is both plastic and elastic. It can stretch and…
Flamin Country Joe
Country
In 1992, an antiwar activist, Country Joe, violated a Georgia statute by acting out a skit that urged people to refuse to fight in the Persian Gulf war, overthrow the government and form a socialist regime. He then burned a military uniform in opposition to the war, and was arrested for his actions. This paper…
Enrico Fermi and his discovery
Discovery
Fermium-525 was discovered in 1952 in the debris field of a H bomb detonation in the Pacific Ocean. It was discovered by Ghiorso and colleagues and is the eight discovered transuranium component of the actinide series. The longest lived Fm isotope lived a half life of 82 yearss. Discovered by: Workers at Argonne, Los Alamos,…
Yellowstone super volcano
Nature
Volcano
Could the eruption of the Yellowstone National Park super-volcano cause a mass extinction? The Yellowstone volcano is known to many as the most dangerous volcano is America. Right now, the ground underneath Yellowstone National Park is rising at an alarming rate. In fact, it is rising at the rate of about three inches per year.,…
Tornadoes are Frequent in United States
Hurricane
Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm cloud to the earths surface. They are sometimes nicknamed twisters because of their shape and because of what they do. The winds in the tornadoes are usually 100mph or less. In +F4’s they can exceed 250mph. They usually stay on a…
Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea
North Korea
Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea. Denouncing the Totalitarian Regime Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea is a graphic text of Guy Delisle’s trip to North Korea. Delisle records the striking instances of totalitarian regime and lack of freedom through the interplay between word and image which uncannily work to destabilize what in…
theme | The five themes of geography are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. |
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description | Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets. The first person to use the word γεωγραφία was Eratosthenes. |
quotations | Geography has made us neighbors. History is not everything, but it is a starting point. Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography. |
information | Importance: Geography can help us understand the planet’s movement, changes, and systems. Topics that are relevant to today such as climate change, water availability, natural resources, and more are much easier understood by those who know geography well., |