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American Born Chinese
America
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang tells the stories of three characters who all desire to escape their current situations and assimilate into new ones. Yang effectively conveys important messages that are relevant to the experiences of young American born Chinese individuals throughout history. The characters in the book face discrimination, struggle with their…
Fall of the Romanovs
Inflation
Russia
War
Many believe that the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 was the main factor in the fall of the Romanovs; however it could be argued that there are other reasons for this. For instance, many perceived Nicholas II as a very poor tsar as a whole, regardless of the war. There are also…
Outside the Solar System
Astronomy
Solar System
Sun
The Lavallee Enterprise was the first space ship of its kind. It had a crew of six people: three girls three guys. It was soon to be the first space ship to leave the solar system. With its new cruse drive, it should be able to make the round trip from Earth to out side…
Chapter 11 Oceanography
Environment
Oil Spill
Water
For coastal oceans where deep mixing does not occur, discuss the effect that offshore winds and fresh water runoff will have on salinity distribution. How will the winter and summer seasons affect the temperature distribution in the water column? -Coastal waters are those relatively shallow water areas that adjoin continents or island. Winter and Summer…
Case Analysis Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Case Analysis: Saudi Arabia 1. Definition of the problem/decision The problem in this case is about the Saudi Arabian government, which offers a possible business plan to the American company Skyblue. Skyblue is a commercial aircraft manufacturer based in Kansas, USA. Because of its great reputation of high-quality and state-of-the-art technology, the royal Saudi Arabian…
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…
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)…
Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Storm
Sebastian Junger’s creative nonfiction book, “The Perfect Storm,” was published in 1997 by W. W. Norton & Company. HarperCollins’ Perennial imprint later released the paperback edition (ISBN 0-06-097747-7) in 1999. The book recounts the devastating Perfect Storm that occurred from October 28 to November 4, 1991, and impacted North America. It specifically focuses on the…
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…
The Italian Culture in Vespa
Culture
Italy
Aside from the Roman Coliseum. the Leaning Tower of Pisa. pizzas and pastas. which is portion of the Italian culinary art. the gondolas that fare the Venetian canals. good known creative persons from Italy. their celebrated pictures or literary plants. and other symbolisms and icons which represent the Italian civilization. the Vespa claims a topographic…
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., |