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Population And World Hunger Debate Research
Population
The correlativity between over-population and turning universe hungriness has become a controversial subject in today ’ s society. Concerns of population enlargement, universe famishment, and environment devastation are affairs of argument and are of much concern for their results affect everyone of society. The universe is home to an estimated 6 billion people with more…
The Tangshan Earthquake
Disaster
Earthquake
Natural Disaster
On July 28, 1976, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (other sources estimate the magnitude as high as 8.2-8.3 on the Richter scale) occurred in the People’s Republic of China, with the epicenter near Tangshan, the Hebei Province. The earthquake struck at 3:42 a.m. and lasted for 10-14 seconds resulting in an extensive 6-mile-long fault in the…
Recommendation Colorado River dams
Energy
Environment
Environmental science
Environmentalism
Natural Environment
Nature
Sustainable Development
Recommendation I agree that the Colorado River dams have indeed benefited the American people. However, there is always a good and bad side of everything. Environmentalists might argue that these dams shouldn’t have been built in the first place as these can obviously do any good to the environment. However, instead of complaining on what…
Homelessness in New York
Homelessness
Homelessness In America
There is said to have been many ways to describe and understand what exactly homelessness is. The basic understanding of homelessness is a state of being in which a person lacks the basic right of having housing. With this being said, there are several ways in which this definition can become something to branch off…
The Impact of Sport in Australian People’s Lives Today
Australia
People
Sport
As Australia became more commercialised and globalised, its sports also underwent a transformation. Once a locally-based amateur activity, sport in Australia gradually evolved into a highly lucrative professional industry with international reach. This development also mirrored the shift in our culture away from its British origins towards a distinct Australian cultural hybrid, influenced by both…
20th Century Man: Dhirubhai Ambani
India
The founder of Reliance Industries Ltd., Dhirubhai Ambani, was born in 1932 in Chorwad village, Gujarat, India to a middle-class family. His father worked as a school teacher. Despite initially failing his school exams, Dhirubhai managed to make money as a child by selling snacks to pilgrims during weekends. At the age of 17, he…
The Making Of America Research Paper
America
The Making Of America Essay, Research Paper The devising of America was a coaction of colonial experimentation, a alone blend of different people and civilization, and a slow emmergence of conjunct political ideals. Some settlements had measureable success, some did non, and one wholly dissappeared. Never before had such a range of people of different…
Candle in the Dark – Demon Haunted World
World
Carl Sagan’s book “The Demon-Haunted World” is a book about science, pseudoscience and the difference between the two. It is clear from the beginning that Mr. Sagan is very passionate about science and frustrated with society’s lack of literacy in this subject. Throughout the book he talks about many different situations where pseudoscience has taken…
WEVA Stands For Walcott Emergency Volunteers Association
Emergency
Flood
Volunteers Association. Walcott has had a team of volunteers monitoring the sea since 1976 after the sea breached the defenses and flooded properties on the sea front including the post office. They were known as Walcott Flood Wardens. Some of them were fishermen so were very familiar with how the weather conditions could cause major…
Most Interesting Man In The World
World
“His charm is so contagious vaccines have been created for it. He is the only man to ever ace the Rorschach Test. Sharks have a week dedicated to him”. He is the most interesting man in the world. He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does he prefers Dos Equis. With his stunning charm…
| 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., |