Antarctica

Overview The Earth goes through many natural changes like sea levels slightly changing, earthquakes, and tornadoes. Global warming has greatly increased and became one of biggest contributors to the changes on the Earth. Immediately I decided I wanted to learn more about global warming. Global warming has changed climate a lot since when I was younger. Right now it is December 18th and we have no snow. I think this is the first winter that we have had no snow; usually there is so much that we…

The Nineteenth Century was a time for revolution. The nonstop wars and thirst for expansion drove the nations to fight for dominance. A burgeoning global network of influence, money, invention, and thought developed prompting America’s placement upon the world stage. These new changes brought forth a new self-awareness, a better understanding, of one’s place in the rapidly changing world. Perceptions altered as notions of self changed. Embracing these changes, novel writers encouraged a more…

Into the Jungle: Great Adventures in the Search for Evolution is a novel by Sean B. Carroll built around nine different stories of scientific discoveries and how they all contributed to our current knowledge of the evolution of species. As one can infer from the title, the main biological concept dealt with is evolution. To explain and provide support for the theory, Carroll discussed two more concepts: natural selection and genetic mutations. Every one of the nine stories included in the book…

Human trafficking can be a touchy subject, as most people want to turn a blind eye to it. The horrors of human trafficking are so foreign to many, unlike causes that people can identify with because they know someone that it directly affects. However, the healing cannot start unless people start to educate themselves about how human trafficking affects the world and how they can help alleviate those effects. Human trafficking is more prevalent than people think and affects the world in many ways…

opportunity to share and coexist on this planet with some extraordinarily unique and diverse organisms. Of such organisms, reptiles and amphibians are some of the most adaptable organisms on Earth, residing on every continent except bitter cold Antarctica. Here in Minnesota, There are 22 species of amphibians and 31 species of reptiles, ranging from the fast moving salamanders to the slow and nimble turtles. I got the opportunity to further research the Blanchard’s cricket frog, in hopes of…

The process of discovery enlightens and educates individuals with fresh, meaningful ideals about the physical and spiritual world, whilst also reshaping an individual’s perspectives of the world, themselves and others. Two texts which explore this dynamic of discovery is Simon Nasht’s documentary Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004) and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner (2003). Nasht’s documentary uses Frank Hurley’s expedition into the Antarctic as a vehicle to convey one’s…

the world like, bombs, and farming chemicals can cause problems in the earth, that we cannot see. Although you might not see any difference in the world, you can feel it. As climate change is happening, and it started to take a toll on people. Antarctica is starting to see less ice around the continent, and every state is starting to feel weird climate changes throughout the year. The earth is in danger as we speak, but many people do not realize what is going on. There is many different…

The Bubonic plague, one of the world’s worst epidemics was the result of a species of rat boarding a cargo ship from Asia to Europe. This rat carried diseases that eventually wiped out a third of Europe. That species of rat could be considered an invasive species. An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific habitat, and whose introduction can cause environmental harm or harm to another population. Some of the most significant negative effects of invasive nonindigenous…

It is true that the climate has changed and humans are accountable for causing it? Global warming has been one of the biggest deals of political and scientific controversy. As we know that the scientists have discovered mysteries of the world and universe in the past decades. Is it to be believed that humans are involved in causing the global warming? One of my main reasons for saying that the Earth is actually becoming warmer, is because of the increasing temperatures through the thermometer…

Natural selection Natural selection is when an organism is born with a mutation that is advantageous to its species survival and reproduction. There are four components in Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the first is variation within the community of organisms as they will all exhibit different behavioural traits and have a different appearance though some characteristics stay the same like the number of eyes in vertebrates. The second is inheritance which is when a child possesses traits…