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The Olympic Athlete
Greece
Olympic Games
I always have respected Olympic athletes, for they spend all their timetraining. Victorious athletes were professionals in the sense that they livedoff the glory of their achievement ever afterwards. Their hometowns might rewardthem with: free meals for the rest of their lives, honorary appointments, orleadership positions in the community. The victors were memorialized in statuesand…
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz – A Literary Analysis
Dominican Republic
Life
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is an engrossing novel that transports the reader to the intertwined lives of members of a Dominican family. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic himself, Junot Diaz emerges as a highly credible spokesperson for his countrymen, narrating in painstaking detail the socio-political events that transpired…
Speech Analysis: Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian
Australia
Speech Analysis
The Essay The speech ‘Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier by former Prime Minister Paul Keating has been chosen as the basis of this commentary. It was given on 1 lath of November 1993 at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra as a commemoration in honor of all of the soldiers who have served…
The World in 2050
World
The World in 2050 Futurism is an Italian fine arts movement that was founded in 1909. Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti began the movement to celebrate modern technology and to free Italian art from the psychology of the past. Futurism influenced the 20th century’s art and design, which opened doors for the movements related to sculpture,…
Coexistence of Humans and Megafauna in Australia
Australia
In 1830 Mr. Rankin tied a rope around a projection out of a rock face in order to lower himself into Wellington Cave (Horton, 1980). The projection turned out to be the bone of a giant extinct marsupial. It was to be the first discovery of a great range of giant marsupials. Were these animals…
Developing Country- Cambodia
Country
Development
Developing Country- Cambodia In between Thailand, Laos and Vietnam sits the country of Cambodia. Their early history is unrecorded but most Cambodians consider themselves descendants of the Angkor Empire that stretched most of Southeast Asia. Under constrain threats to invade by Thailand and Vietnam, the king of France placed Cambodia under France’s protection in 1963….
DIscovery Assignment
Discovery
Discovery is something scattered all throughout these poem, masked by the motions that the words bring to very particular souls. For something to be going it must have been found and along those lines this poem is based. We must dig deeper then all the sentences that explain everything as “going” and uncover what was…
Foreign direct investment
Brazil
Investing
After scrutinizing economical models and business practices around the world, obvious conclusion is that the modern era is the era of multinational corporations. Money flows transcend national borders and administrative barriers if there is a promise of higher returns on capital. Virtually every major and successful enterprise has operations in another country or region. Starting…
The Silk Road: an Immense Network of Commerce
China
Silk Road
The Silk Road was an immense network of commerce that established relations between China and the west. Long distance trade enabled large imperial states to obtain luxury goods through overland trade routes, which eventually led not only to the spread of products but disease and religion as well. Between 200 and 1450 BCE, there were…
Global Warming Issues
Global Warming
Greenhouse effect
“The Earth is a generous mother, she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.” -Bourke Coekran. Global warming refers to the sustained increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. In simple words, the phenomenon of warming of the…
| 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., |