Desert

Climate Change And Its Side Effects In The Mojave Desert When someone thinks about the Mojave Desert, one can imagine sand and Joshua Trees, but no one thinks about the problems that face this land. To make matters worse, this problem faces all of earth. Climate change is a huge problem that not too many people want to face, or admit. There are also others who strongly oppose of this proposal. But whether or not we believe it, it is in fact true, and our earth is slowly dying from it. This…

Preserving Nature through Desert Solitaire and Being Caribou Both Edward Abbey’s memoir Desert Solitaire and Leanne Allison’s documentary Being Caribou were written for the purpose of preserving nature. In Desert Solitaire, Abbey is trying to preserve the deserts in the southwest region of the United States. Whereas, in Being Caribou, Allison wants to protect the caribous located in Alaska, where the government wants to drill for oil and destroy their sacred calving grounds. Even though they are…

When looking at the floor plan of the Kaufmann Desert House by Richard Neutra, the first thing that was drawn to my attention was all the similar geometry, specifically the L shaped geometries. They were all different shapes and sizes, and were facing all different directions, There was a sense of repetition embedded within the floor plan. A central axis stood out, and it was obvious that all the L shaped geometries were rotated around this central axis, and then shifted off of it. Diagram one…

circumstances and their view of an ideal culture. With one’s presupposition to what culture should be they then are able to formulate their opinion on whether or not the current culture is negative or positive. In the chapter “Episodes and Visions” of Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968) Edward Abbey defined the current culture as selfish, self-centered, and egotistic.…

Wikipedia defines ‘desert’ 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…

The tropical desert is an environment of extremes: it is the driest and hottest place on earth. Rainfall is sporadic and in some years no measurable precipitation falls at all. The terribly dry conditions of the deserts is due to the year-round influence of subtropical high pressure and continentality. Western winds blow away from the 30-degree latitude belt, causing light surface winds and intense heat that evaporates moisture in the air. Low-latitude or tropical deserts are located…

the intense conflict between popular culture and indigenous culture and people's thinking about morality. The story was beginning in the most treacherous desert—Kalahari. Kalahari is a beautiful place that far away from hustle and bustle city, and the climate in there are also strange. After the short rainy season, the water was drained by the desert in almost two weeks, and then there was no water to drink. People who live in there named Bushmen, and they are the most contented people in the…

One of the hardest obstacles Santiago faces is deciding to leave his love Fatima and continue on his journey. Fatima is a girl, Santiago meets at the oasis in the desert. She is a woman of the desert and does not fear for the men that go into the desert because if it is meant to be they will return. As Santiago gets ready to leave the oasis and continue on his journey he is troubled with the thought of leaving Fatima, “ His heart was heavy, and he had been…

“The Nile crashed in the Amazon while being piloted by Mississippi” (Jarod Kintz). Geographic features were crucial for the development of modern day Egypt. Features such as the Nile and the desert provided protection, allowing Egypt to expand. Similar to this, geographic features also influenced America’s development and why America is how it is today. America would not be the same if it was not for the location and the primary resources that we were given. The primary resources gave America…

Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic analyses were carried out for groundwater samples at different areas by many workers (Sonntag et al., 1978; Sultan et al., 1997; Sturchio et al., 2004; Patterson et al., 2005). The isotopic compositions of the Western Desert groundwater samples are similar over large areas and through various depths in the aquifer. δD and δ18O values range from -81 to -72‰ and from -1.9 to -10.6‰, respectively (Fig. 3). These waters show highest depletion in isotopic compositions…