Arid

Would you rather almost die and yet come out alive as a changed person with a hopeful beginning, or go through a short trip to maturity with no hope? These two situations display themselves in the two stories titled “€œContents of a Dead Man 's Pocket,” written by Jack Finney, and “€œMarigolds,” written by Eugenia W. Collier. The former tells of Tom Benecke, a salesperson, who risks his life by climbing out of his eleventh-floor apartment to retrieve a sheet of paper important to his desire to…

as a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Still, man has managed to settle in deserts near to oases and pursue life there. People cross vast expanses of this arid region to reach others places which are more wet and fertile. Travel through a desert is in itself a variant experience similar to a sea voyage or warfare. Because one requires contesting and thriving in unfavourable conditions all the while the…

Did you know that 95% of the Incan population died after first contact with the Spanish? Or that while America successfully sent men to land on the moon, Papua New Guinea was still forced to use stone tools? The world is unequal and the seeds were planted in geographical resources. These uneven geographical resources doomed some cultures to failure, but some to stardom. For example, Papua New Guinea was too wet to grow efficient crops crops, had no domesticable animals and because of that were…

One of the main abiotic factors influencing the distribution of biomes is global atmospheric circulation. Global atmospheric circulation is the mass movement of air around earth caused by thermal energy. This mass movement of air causes three distinct atmospheric circulation cells to form, these are the Hadley Cell, Ferrel Cell and Polar Cell. Between these three cells is a dynamic area called the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Persson (2006) tells us that the Hadley Cell is caused by solar…

Many years ago, my family went on a hike along some old, inactive, railroad tracks. As the youngest, I was too small to keep up, so I was resigned to staying back at the campsite with mom. Being left out of the grand family adventures was a disappointment I had become accustomed to over the span of my short life. While they were off on their adventure, and I was bound to the camp, they came across an antique railroad hammer. My dad thought it was interesting and decided to carry it back to…

The effect of Rhizobia and fertilizer on pea (Pisum sativa) and maize (Zea mays) plants N. Naidoo Abstract Climate change is increasing at an unprecedented rate and will affect the growth and development of many plants. Climate change is expected to affect developed and developing countries differently with greater vulnerabilities in regions in the low-latitude (Darwin and Kennedy, 2000). The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Rhizobia and fertilizer on pea (Pisum sativa) and…

Neveen Bashiti 3/19/2017 Regional Geography of the World Chapter 8A & 8B Summary The South Asian Realm South Asia may be the most diverse realm in the world. Mountains, deserts, and the Indian Ocean are some the features that mark this realm. Another feature of this realm is the great rivers, especially the Ganges that has for many years supported the clustered population in this realm. India was the birthplace of major religions that impacted this realm. Religions like Hinduism and Buddhism…

During the golden age of the 1920’s, glamour and vice were a cultural mindset and practice. Advances in technology and the film industry led to a lifestyle of extravagance and materialism which came hand in hand with the consumption of alcohol. Prohibitionists believed that alcohol was America’s curse and source of all evil. With the passing of the eighteenth amendment, purest activists hoped to achieve a decrease in sin and misconduct amongst the American people, however, the prohibition was…

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury are two well acclaimed novels (Goodreads) displaying the theme of censorship in literature. Both are dystopian novels written in the postmodern era (Oxford), thus portray many themes from World War II such as nuclear war, war poverty,, and totalitarianism. They follow the journeys of the protagonists as they realize the corruption of the society they live in, and attempt to resolve it. Although both protagonists arrive at…

Guiding people from the unforgiving shadow of nature, technology manifests itself from the first piercing spear to the first flying sparks of electricity. Today, the growing innovation of genetically modified organisms will redefine what was once impossible. Genetically modified organisms or GMOs are the result of taking the beneficial characteristics of one organism or a chemical and merging it with that of another organism, to enhance its overall performance for a specific purpose, i.e.…