Amazon

Amazon as an Information System The year 1955 started the beginning of a historic online ordering system. Even though it began as a website that only carried books, the creator, Jeff Bezos knew from the very beginning that he wanted Amazon to be “an everything” store (D’Onfro, 2014). However, before becoming Amazon, Jeff Bezos wanted to name the system many different things, to include, Cadaver and Relentless. Oddly enough, if a user tries to visit relentless.com today, it will send them to…

Throughout millions of years species have learned to adapt to the ever-changing planet they call home. Some species have survived the change and others have not and went extinct. The National Geographic documentary on the Wild Amazon Rainforest offers some insight on how the creatures of the forest and the river have adapted throughout time. Every year new species is being discovered, whether it be plants or animals. If the environment is changing slowly the animals and plants that live in the…

Latin America and North America are located right next to each other, Latin America being just south of North America. Latin America is made up of six sub regions: Mexico, Central America, The Caribbean Basin, Northern Andes, Brazil, and Southern South America. Whereas North America is made up of two Countries: Canada and the United States. Due to how close they are to each other there are some similarities, but don’t be fooled these two regions are very different. Latin America has a very wide…

In order to obtain more habitation for humans, cattle pasture and agricultural pursuits, people deforest a large amount of forest. The structure of the land is changed after deforestation. According to Hauser, et al(2002), erosion and flooding turn serious because of increasing deforestation. When erosion and flooding turn serious, biodiversity and specices richness were affected to immensely.(para. 2). Soil will become loose since there is not any trees’ root to hold the soil together.…

fatally affect the Asheninka and could make multiple species of animals and insects go extinct. This could be extremely detrimental to the flora and fauna found in the Amazon Rainforest. The road should not be built because of the many animal species that are only found in this particular rainforest. Many animals in the Amazon still haven't been discovered. If construction wipes them out, they will never be discovered. Many of the species that have already been discovered could possibly…

bad for the environment, it is good for the economies of the countries. It provides more jobs than anything else there. It is up to the countries that allow deforestation to happen to make the decision. Works Cited Bevins, Vincent. "Guardians of Amazon." Los Angeles Times. 10 Jul. 2015: A.1. SIRS…

They have dry regions in the northern part of Latin America such as deserts in Mexico. There are wet regions like the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil. ”The Amazon River is the life force of the equally large Amazon rain forest, which makes up about half of the rain forest of the entire planet. This tropical biome has as many as 100 different tree species on a single acre.” “Access to the sea within a country, not just…

The tree tappers of the Amazon are applauded for their protection of the rainforest, the people in the favelas are admired for their struggles in improving human life, and the protesters in Bolivia are commended for their determination in the face of violence and corruption. One…

come. Everyone knows that without trees there is no oxygen and without any oxygen then there are no humans. More than twenty percent of our world’s oxygen is produced from trees and plants in the amazon rainforest. That’s already one fifth of the entire planets oxygen. And slowly but surely as the amazon continues to be cut down, to be used to make things such as the kitchen table in your dinning room, or to make an over abundant amount of things that we don’t need, or think that we do need.…

Animal Endangerment in Brazil Brazil is home to some of the world’s most diverse wildlife, with over 2,900 animal species occupying in the Amazon rain forest. (Animals) These animals serve an important role in the world’s ecosystem, but are quickly becoming endangered. Although the extinction of animals is a natural occurrence, human activities has quicken their rate of becoming extinct. From early European colonists and settlers, to deforestation, and to animal smuggling, the number of species…