Antarctic Peninsula

Civil disobedience is present all over the world in our lives today and is also present in Antigone by Sophocles. The play is a greek tragedy about Antigone, a young girl who disobeys a law made by her uncle, Creon, the king of Thebes. The towns people are told to leave her brother Polyneices’ corpse unburied, but she defies this law and decides to do what is right, which is giving her brother a proper burial. By doing this, Antigone is being civilly disobedient, which is the defiance of…

Cancun, a Mexican city on the Yucatán Peninsula, bordering the Caribbean Sea, was discovered by the Mayan ("Cancun" 1). Since Cancun is a peninsula, it is normally a tropical climate. Specifically a tropical wet and dry climate, with temperature differences between seasons, but it is a rainy place. May, June, September, and October are the wettest months of the year, in the two months, there is an average of 9 inches each month. All though Cancun is warm year-around. It is basically like having…

Cordoba is located on the Iberian Peninsula on a northern bank of the Guadalquivir river, within Spain. From early in the 2rd century Cordoba was part of the Roman empire. Under Roman rule it became a place that was the centre of Roman intellectual life in Iberia and was referred to as Colonia Patricia, for the class of its citizens With the invasion of the Roman Empire through the 3rd and 5th centuries by the Germanic Visigoths, Cordoba was under Visigothic rule between the 6th and 8th…

Most of the time, Saudi Arabia does not experience much rain throughout the year. Because Saudi Arabia regions differ in geography and climate, some regions will have different cultures. For instance, several years ago, the typical Bedouin woman, who lives outside the cities, see that her job is to drive to do her daily tasks. However, the typical woman, who live in the cities, do not see her job to drive a car to do her tasks. Instead, she sees the man in the one who should drive. These two…

Most of the historical events and cultural influences in Spain are due to its geographical location. Third biggest country in the Western Europe is located in Iberian Peninsula that serves as a bridge between Africa and rest of the Western European countries. Each period in Spanish history carried the great influence in the formation of their beliefs and their lifestyle. Long time before Christians and Muslims came to the Spanish land, Sephardi (Jewish Spain) was the leader in Judaism was also…

and what impact it has in modern Saudi Arabia and how the religious police is different from any other police force will also be explored in this paper. Islam is a religious tradition that was developed in the Middle East known as the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century…

Educated has no limit even if you spent whole life studied, you cannot be that person who knows everything; however, we still need to study and research and teach to develop this world where we are living in. Study abroad that students learn from other country by travel, and you can learn from other country without travel as study online, but we cannot called that study abroad. Nowadays, most of students prefer to study abroad than study in their country or study online, it is not because their…

Buckle Down To Become a Hero Nowadays, education has become a serious issue among people because everything has to deal with education such as applying to a company or being a professor and so on. There are lots of people saying that studying years are the best time in the life and I would definitely agree. My hero is my father who had done a lot to complete his degree. As a child, I had always looked to my father as a hero. To me, he was strong enough to take on an army one handed, tall enough…

conflicting interests of the two major states of the Asia-Pacific region: China and the USA. Both these states have strategic interests in the Korean Peninsula issue, but neither of these states interests stress the reunification of the peninsula. Without the reunification of the peninsula, the question must be asked: what is a resolution to the Korean Peninsula issue? Within this essay I shall first explore the interests of the USA and China in relation to the issue. Then, I shall discuss the…

The story of Lee Hyeonseo is captivating and touching. But before one can understand the crises she went through it is important to understand a little about her history (Leo Hyeonseo, 2015). In order to appreciate the crises that affected Lee, it is important to understand her background. She was born in North Korea and grew up in a middle class family. It was only after the North Korean famine of the late 90s that she started to witness suffering, starvation, and death in her country. At a…