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Human Beings are the Creations of Nature
Nature
Planet
Man is a result of nature and depends on it for survival, including the acquisition of air, water, food, and various everyday objects. However, despite this reliance, humans often possess a pessimistic view towards nature. The phrase “conquest of nature” is frequently employed to describe activities like space exploration and river control, reflecting humanity’s approach…
Anders Celsius – Summary
Observation
Science
Temperature
Anders Celsius South Texas College Chem1411- General Chemistry I For Dr. Joe Studer Anders Celsius Although his name sounds like the conversant unit for temperature, he is also known for being a Swedish astronomer and a mathematician. His works contributed a lot to the scientific industry. From the beginning of his life, he always had…
Longitudinal and transverse waves
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil engineering
mechanical engineering
Mechanics
Physics
Waves
Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, also called compression waves. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as both longitudinal waves and transverse waves. Longitudinal sound waves are waves of alternating pressure deviations from the equilibrium pressure, causing local regions of compression and rarefaction, while transverse waves are waves of…
Australian landscape
Australia
The Australian landscape according to the painting works of émigré artist Eugene Von Guerard “is vast with mountainers ranges stretching towards the distance horizon from the middle ground, it is also deep, yawning valley that lies before it”. James Smith describes it as, having rocks “The lords of creation are represented by a couple of…
Americanization and the World
America
The phenomenon Americanization means the influence America has exerted on the culture and economy all over the world. It has captured socio-fabric structure of the society in the vicissitude of its economic paradigms. The concept Americanization began to exert itself since1900, when people from across the world began to land on the American soils as…
Clara Barton and the American Red Cross
America
American Red Cross
Clara Barton Clara Harlow Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children. Clara was taught at home and started teaching school when she was only fifteen years old. Her only nursing background was having the experience of nursing her injured brother back to health. Clara Barton…
Ten Years after Exxon Valdez disaster
Natural Disaster
The scientific debate continues over the environmental consequences of what happened just after midnight on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, when the grounded vessel leaked nearly 11 million gallons of North Slope crude. But the disaster’s effects on people are clear — and dramatically mixed. Some communities and individuals have flourished. Others still suffer. Some…
Wireless Monitoring of Water Level Using Radio Frequency Identification
Flood
Radio
Wireless Monitoring of Water Level using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Introduction to Research in ICT Marc Dominic Cabioc Elera Marie Joaquin Denmark Padua Jeymark Palma John Nino Requina BSIT 3A October 23, 2009 Wireless Flood Monitoring Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology ABSTRACT Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)…
The Closing of the (North) American Mind Short Summary
America
The Closing of the North American mind by Robert Nielsen, discusses the erosion of the North American society, because of our failing educational system. I agree with Nielsen on some of his arguments against the system. Majority of the student body studies to obtain marks. What they study usually disappears after they get what they…
Summary: Post-Racial America?
America
Simon also mentions that ring a trip to Turkey, President Obama stated, “our society has continued to improve; that racial discrimination has been reduced”. Simon informs the reader that some Americans claim President Obama is an alien while others claim he is racist against whites. Simon also mentions the fact that although President Obama did…
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., |