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Object Biography: Mexican Spindle Whorl Though it may seem like a mere lump of clay to the average individual, in reality, a spindle whorl represents a ubiquitous and methodical practice of production that was used for thousands of years across the globe. However bland one may appear, in their time of use, spindle whorls were vital tools for countless cultures. Used to spin thread, these small tools were utilized by individuals in every corner of the globe for generations in order to ease the…

1 Company Profile Gloil is a manufacturing company based in the USA, dealing with the provision of oil mining machinery and advanced technology. Operating on a multinational level, Gloil targets countries with oil mining, but focuses on those that have only recently discovered their oil wells. 1.1 Products and Services Among the products that the company provides include tricone bits, sucker rods, oil drilling stabilizers and hydraulic accumulators (Oil News). These forms of machinery make it…

“A steam engine in trousers,” a contemporary once called him. The first president to ride in an automobile, fly in an airplane, and even be submerged in a submarine. Who was this man? His name was Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States of America. After the assassination of the 25th president, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, his vice president, rose to power to make many great achievements. One of those achievements was making the Progressive movement as successful as…

Global warming is a rise in temperature in the troposphere that may lead to climate change. Global climate change is a much broader term that discusses changes in any part of the climate on Earth. These changes could occur in temperature, precipitation, or storm intensity. A change in global climate could be a warning or a cooling of the temperature. Often associated with global warming is the Greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can trap and hold heat from the sun.…

Hindu Kush mountain range. The mountainous area of the country also contains seismic activity. Landslides and avalanches are a constant threat inside the mountain range. The climate in Afghanistan varies greatly depending on the terrain. In the dry, arid desserts of the southwest temperatures can reach up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. In the rugged mountainous terrain of the northeast temperatures can reach as low as -24, degrees Fahrenheit. Extensive surveys have revealed a large number of…

Zambia, Africa is a different environment than what Americans are accustom. The natives portrayed in the Eye of the Elephant are rationing their portions every day. They do not have a McDonald’s right down the street or the convenience of a grocery store on multiple corners. What they have is the Black Market. The Black Market can sell anything from ivory to leopard fur but it is all done illegally. Mark and Delia have to deal with these problems in their own way. A major problem in the book…

Antonio Machado‘s poem A un olmoseco’ from his book, Campos de Castilla was written in Soria in 1912 .The poem, like others in Campos de Castilla, is a piece of landscape literature contributing to the work of Spain’s Generacion del 98 (Generation of 98). The poem, set in the Sorian landscape, tells of an old elm tree, which although rotting and dying has a few new leaves sprouting from it. Throughout the poem, Machado expresses his intimate feelings, both with regards to his personal…

Thousands of years before the Europeans arrived to the New World, there were natives of the Western Hemisphere that consisted of 2,000 different cultures and lived in a variety of environments. These inhabitants are known as the Indians, or the Native Americans, who migrated from Asia roughly 30,000 years ago when the West was going through vast climatic changes due to the Ice Age. The Indians developed new methods of finding food such as hunting in the north, fishing near bodies of water,…

The sun is the biggest producer of energy man has ever known. It is also just a normal sized star. Most of this energy is wasted however. On an average day the sun produces so much energy it would power everything we own for the rest of our lives. The solar rays produced from the sun are what can be used as an energy source (Locke, S.). Knowing this many people are harvesting this energy to produce power. This is why solar energy is becoming one of the most popular ways of producing energy.…

Mars have always been perceived as a desolate planet, which does not have anything special other than arid surface with scattered rocks and mountains. However, science is telling us that this perception could be far from reality. With the rapid development of scientific research, paralleled with the technological revolution, recent explorations have revealed new data and interesting findings on the surface of our mysterious neighbor. Galileo Galilei was the first man to use a telescope to…