Amazon Basin

It is sometimes strange that you see a certain issue around you, and suddenly you are given an opportunity to express your view about it and share it with other people. That’s exactly what James Cameron did in his movie Avatar. Cameron saw this movie as an opportunity to exploit the ways in which mankind manipulate and use planet earth for use of their own self-interest and for material things. Before the release of Avatar, critics hinted that Cameron was leading towards a pro-environmental…

determine who speaks what language to whom, and when. Most societies in the today’s world are multilingual; a great example of this is The Vaupes River Basin language family, in which, it was not uncommon for children to speak 3-5 languages, while adults spoke 7-10 languages at varying levels of proficiency. The members of The Vaupes River Basin also promote bilingualism and multilingualism by being one of the few societies that expect you to marry outside of your family’s native…

Postmodernist writers use skepticism to question the notion of social progress and accepted truths. After World War II, the loss of hope in the world was sparked and it was the beginning of postmodernism. The rise of technology led to a better understanding of the world. Allen Ginsberg makes a powerful statement about the notion of world progress in his poem “Homework” by using post modernist characteristics such as, skepticism and dark humor. The poem “Homework” by Allen Ginsberg is a strong…

Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Machu Picchu site in the mountains 2,430 meters above sea level! It views are absolutely memorizing but to make things even better, the city has a very natural setting while sitting on the upper part of the Amazon basin. Many endangered animals also live here while it provides the perfect safe spot for them such as the spectacled bear, dwarf brocket, the otter, long-tailed weasel, pampas cat, ocelot, boa, and the Andean condor. With the peaceful…

would be exposed to diseases, brutality from outsiders, and most likely have their lands stolen from them. These secluded people shouldn’t be forced into contact where they could be exploited and wiped out. As the article “‘Human Safaris’ in the Amazon Basin Put Uncontacted Tribes at Risk” states, they are actually very smart to stay hidden. About a hundred years ago mass numbers of Native Americans from South America were rounded up to labor for rubber barons. After Christopher Columbus’…

The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), also known as the stinkbird, or Canje pheasant, is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco Delta in South America. It is notable for having chicks that possess claws on two of their wing digits. It is the only member of the genus Opisthocomus (Ancient Greek: "wearing long hair behind", referring to its large crest) which in turn is the only extant genus in the family Opisthocomidae. The taxonomic…

The primate species that I am studying is the Common Squirrel Monkey, also known as Saimiri sciureus. Squirrel monkeys are considered frugivorous and insectivorous, meaning they mainly consume fruits and insects. However, they mainly forage for insects, but in times when insects as scare, they turn to fruits. Examples of insects include orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets) and lepidopterans (moths, butterflies), while fruits include leguminosae (legumes) and sapotaceae (Lima and Ferrari,…

found on the opposite side of a mountain range to a desert. Research done by Edward K. Vizy and Kerry H. Cook (2006) explains an example of this in the Amazon Basin in South America. Moist prevailing easterly trade winds from the Hadley Cell and ICTZ move from the Atlantic Ocean towards South America, they precipitate over the low altitude Amazon Basin before rising up to the Andes Mountains, this forms the Atacama Desert on the leeward side. This large amount of precipitation is a key…

continent's deforestation occurring in the Amazon basin, on e of the most diverse and unique ecosystem on the planet. Forest management, conservation, and preservation efforts have helped global deforestation decline from a peak in the 1990s of 20.75 million…

Kyle Duggan Mr. Kinnear English 10 5 June 2017 Global Warming, is it valid or a hoax? There are many things happening and changing on Earth, that some people think are invalid. Global warming is one of the major problems that has been brought up in the 21st century. Global warming is the general rise in temperatures around the globe, generally due to the greenhouse effect. Many scientist believe that human production of greenhouse gasses and carbon dioxide are the cause of this great problem…