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Bill Clinton and Trust of Americans
America
Hillary Clinton
Lack of trust is a reoccurring theme through out the three cases. One might ask, why you need trust in any civil society? Lack of trust in a civil society has the society with no real stability. Trust in authority is lacking in each case. The approval rating for Bill Clinton is high. Does this…
Molecular Weight of a Volatile Liquid
Pressure
Temperature
Water
Prelaboratory assignment Examples of questions related to the Dumas method: How many grams of ethanol would occupy 750 mL at 790.5 torr pressure at 100oC? (molar mass of ethanol is 46.0 g mol-1) Relavent equations: PV = nRT 1 atm = 101.3 kPa R = 0.8206 L atm mol-1 K-1 P = (750 torr)(1atm/760 torr)…
Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina
Economics
Hurricane Katrina
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina resulted in one of the major natural disasters in the history of the United States. It wais both the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes recorded in America. Experts estimate the overall cost of damages from Katrina to be at $105 billion and at total of 1,833 confirmed…
Economic Impact Of High Gas Prices
Economics
Kyoto Protocol
Gas monetary values are up over 40 cents a gallon from this clip last twelvemonth ( Stefanova ) . What impacts will that hold on the overall economic system? A recent USA Today canvass showed that 55 per centum of people who make under $ 20,000 a twelvemonth consider gas hikes a fiscal adversity. Merely…
AirDisaster- Creative Writing
Disaster
Short Story
The sight that greeted my eyes was haunting. There were dead bodies as far as the eye could see, but somehow nobody had a scratch on them. The plane was in pieces, scattered all around. As the waves rolled up the beach, more and more bodies were revealed. The sun was burning high in the…
Southern America and the Influence of Spain and Africa
Africa
Southern America is considered as the melting pot of cultures in the world (Banker). Based on their history, these different cultures or traditions were adopted from two of the countries that entered the region. Some of the prevalent traditions in South America were influenced by both Spain and Africa. One of the most…
Living in City and Countryside
City
Country
The lifestyles in cities and countryside differ greatly due to the presence of infrastructures in cities, such as transportation and high buildings, which significantly alter the landscape. In contrast, the countryside reflects an agricultural lifestyle, with a predominance of peasants. Furthermore, when comparing populations, the countryside tends to have an older population than cities. The…
Chinese Flowering Plum Motif
Chinese
The image of the flowering plum has been played a popular role throughout Chinese paintings and poetry. What was the significance of the flowering plum motif during the Southern Song Dynasty (960-1279)? The period of the Song dynasty (960-1279) was particularly noted for its artistic achievements. Although landscape paintings of the Northern Song (960-1127) was…
Comparison of Living Like Weasels and Nature
Nature
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalists were a group of Romantics in the 1800’s led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was considered to be an idealism that many writers of the time believed in, and many stories were based on the core beliefs of this idealism. We know that one of the core beliefs is that understanding all that exists…
Stars from Scientific Point of View
Chemistry
Star
Sun
STARSA star is a large celestial body composed of gravitationally contained hot gases giving off electromagnetic radiation, especially light. The sun is actually a star. Unlike the sun the stars seem to be fixed, but in fact stars are in rapid motion, but their distances are so great no relative changes can be seen with…
| 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., |