The battle of Lake Trasimene was a major battle in the second Punic war which was led by Hannibal. The Carthaginians defeated the romans with the consul of Gaius Flaminius Hannibal Barca, was a Punic military commander from Carthage, known as one of the greatest military commanders in history during the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). His father Hamilcar Barca was the leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War (241 BCE); which ended in defeat of the Carthaginians against the Romans in Sicily. Due to the defeat Hamiclar Barca devoted the rest of his life as well as Hannibal’s swearing on getting indestructible wrath against the Roman Empire in Spain, to improving Carthaginian battle skills in order to cease the Roman Empire.…
According to the US National Park Service: “About ten thousand years ago the last Valley glacier that melted and created a shallow lake, which is Lake Yosemite. Lake Yosemite eventually filled in with silt, leaving today's level Valley floor.” Rocks also make up a lot of Yosemite, as it is mostly made up of plutonic igneous rocks. Granite, granodiorite, tonalite, Yosemite Valley first started forming Eighty to twenty-five million years ago. The causes that contributed to this great formation of this place in our own backyard, was uplift and erosion that stripped away most of the sedimentary layers, leaving the cooled magma exposed.…
The type of volcano Coatepeque is a caldera. The volcano, Coatepeque, is located El Salvador but to be more specific, it is in the middle of Santa Ana and Sonsonate. In the early 1900s, this volcano was active, steam and heat still came out into the atmosphere. This caldera was formed by overlapping stratovolcanoes east of Santa Ana. But over the years, water was being accumulated which formed into an almost perfect circular geographic structure which is now known as Lake Coatepeque.…
Patrick Johnson Engr 597 Tectonics Dr. Gifford 10/14/2016 Formation of the Rocky Mountains Abstract • How did they form? • Sevier orogeny • Laramide orogeny • prevailing theory (flat slab subduction) 1. Very low angle subducting slab 2. rubbing against underside of North American plate 3.…
Seasholtz, Ciera My Cultural History Little known to the rest of the world, but on September 10th, 1994, at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Georgia, a star was born to Conrad and Sarita Seasholtz. The little bundle of joy, whom they named Ciera Elaine Seasholtz, would soon change their world as they knew it. For the first couple years of my life, I grew up in Jasper, Florida, a mile from Grandmother and Grandfather Seasholtz. My brother, Cole, is thirteen months younger than I am. I was the good child.…
Brady Price Mrs. Gillum English 11A 16 May 2018 Appalachian Mountain Appalachian refers to a largely rural people who reside in the southern Appalachian region covering about 110,000 square miles in the states of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Appalachian are spread through the Appalachian Mountains in nine states. This area consists of three physiographic regions. The Blue Ridge Mountains, with the highest peaks in the area, constitute the eastern region; the central, southern, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia. The Appalachian is such an amazing way to find the history of our lands and what all has happened in these mountains (“Appalachians”).…
My national park was Mount Rainier National Park, Mount Rainier is one of the oldest national parks in the United States, Mount Rainier itself is at about 1 million years old. Mount Rainier is also Washington’s tallest peak, and it has the 17th highest summit in the United States, its summit is about 14,410 feet; Mount Rainier National Park itself was founded in 1885. Mount Rainier is actually an active volcano, but the snow covers up the lava underpinnings. Mount Rainier also use to have life on it, it had many different animal species, bears and mountain lions, and indian tribes living very nearby. Mount Rainier is always covered in snow, the snow has never completely melted, though the snow never melts there are months that are warmest;…
In Georgia; right outside of Atlanta in DeKalb County, there is a mountain that stands out from the rest. This mountain is completely made of granite. It is 5,000 feet long, seven miles around the base and a mile to the summit up the sloping side. Records say it is the largest mountain made of stone. This mountain is ironically named Stone Mountain and there is a Confederate memorial that is on the side of it.…
In the novel, The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape, the author, Harm De Blij, writes about the topic of the impact of physical geography and development. The physical geography is the study of natural features and how we deal with them. Physical geography does not just determine why people can live in certain places or not. Physical geography also influences people’s lifestyles and how they adapt to the food sources and climate. For instance, De Blij states, “Tens of millions of habitants of isolated mountain valleys...are as bound to their isolated abodes as their forebears were” (pg. 3).…
When asked about why she wrote Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande responded: “I never found a book that dealt with the experiences I went through-- being left behind in another country while my parents worked in the U.S” (Ruf 54). Grande’s work novel and memoir are intimate and personal narratives. In her memoir Grande lets her audience into her personal experiences and her intimate journey to reconcile with her identity, while her fictional novel magnifies her fears and identity conflicts. Taking in consideration the narrative chronology, analyzing the main similarities and applying the concepts of social liminality and cultural negotiation identity construction of undocumented immigrants, the diversity and complexities of identity is…
Mountaintop Removal Where are you from? Are you from the city, the country, or perhaps you live in a rural area? No matter where you came from the main goal is that we try our best to eliminate danger to our planet. Not many actually know what is happening around them, this is why we must stay alert on what is done to our home.…
Culture/history (Elliot) The culture of the rocky mountain region is very diverse. There are many festivals, art shows, eateries, theater, and concerts are some of the things you can do in this culture filled region. Culture and religion Wildlife/Physical Features (Everyone) Common animals are Elks, Bighorn sheeps, moose, cougars, bobcats, bears. The Rocky Mountains are teeming with aquatic and aerial life forms.…
The great Pyrenees is a great place to go and take a tour. The reason for that is because it is an old place that had the modern technology. They will not make new building the reason for that is so they can still have the basiling hill side of the Pyrenees. Used the one that they had so they never really make new building. It’s not like an old ghost towns but it is old.…
The Indian Ocean world can be dynamically split up into three major regions. Africa, South Asia and lastly the East Indies are three separate areas of the Indian Ocean that together make up a larger and more intricate picture of what life is like in the Indian Ocean. Through migration and trade these regions have helped form each other’s political, economic and social structure by encouraging new ideas and propelling each other into the modern age. When one thinks about the industrial revolution they often figure that the movement began in England however, the industrial revolution began thanks to the people living in South East Asia. In the entire south East Indian region the sub-continent of India became one of the most powerful and desired trade partners.…
Abulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea, is unique in its approach to the African literary terrain, choosing to address those issues which were previously silenced or unheard of. The novel begins with the first narrator Saleh Omar who has just arrived in England as an asylum seeker from Zanzibar. His journey as an elderly refugee into England under the name Rajaab Shabaan Mahmud sees him come into contact with an ‘expert’ of his area – Latif Mahmud. When their paths collide a bitter cross-generational dispute lays the foundation of the narrative, and in the process seduces the reader into utter complicity until the final words are uttered.…