Desert

The distance between ancient Rome and ancient China was about 4,000 miles by land. There were fierce deserts and high mountains in the way. It was a very dangerous trip. The Silk Road was a nickname for any route that any trader took from China to Rome. For a very long time, the ancient Romans did not know who was making this wonderful fabric called silk. The Romans first discovered pieces of of silk in the goods they took from some of the people they conquered. But those people did not know…

food chain, all the way to humans. This project increased my appreciation and respect strongly for my desert in many ways. It first started with learning how I can participate in helping clean our desert. This lead to wanting to know how my actions helped the desert. When I found that I really do affect the desert positively, it helps to appreciate my actions. During this time I learned how the desert in turn helps me continue in existence. I was glad to see how proper application of work,…

The United States are home to countless food deserts and swamps. According to the USDA, a food desert is a low-income community with a substantial number of residents that have little access to fresh food. The USDA defines a food swamp as a place where unhealthy foods are more readily available than healthy foods. Food swamps generally have more fast food restaurants, then deserts, but both are affected by fast food chains. A recent article published by the Health…

these articles as explanations were outlined in addition to personal input from residents of these impoverished areas. The powerful evidence in the articles raised issues of “food deserts”, food resistance, and the local food problems that are occurring here in Rhode Island. In Nathan McClintock’s article, food deserts are defined as “areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly such an area…

Robert Oppenheimer and his affect on the nuclear era The nuclear war era, weapons that created mass destruction that had changed the world into what we know as it is today. Robert Oppenheimer was on American Scientist from New York (American library 1). Oppenheimer Accomplished a lot of things, he earned a Nobel peace prize, creator of the atomic bomb and was a graduate of Harvard University. Robert Oppenheimer did more than just accomplish goals. Oppenheimer oversaw construction of the first…

The Axial Zone transformed Afro-Eurasia culturally and economically from trade and the different empires that emerged around the 2nd millennium CE. But not everyone was lucky enough to benefit from the communication. Mesoamerica, West Africa, and Japan experienced benefits and drawbacks from cultural and economic isolation. Mesoamerica faced social and economic benefits and drawbacks from being isolated. Mesoamerica was a region in the Americas, extending from central Mexico to northern Costa…

In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago travels through the Sahara Desert to find a treasure hidden near the Egyptian Pyramids, and on the way he learns that the world is connected through the Language of the World! The Alchemist uses symbols to show the theme of how the world is connected through the Language of the World. One symbol in the Prologue is the lake. In the book it says, “The goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake…

that reflects the advertiser’s attention and the consumer’s ideals. In the advertisement I analyzed on True Religion Brand Jeans, the advertisement depicts a black and white photograph of an attractive male and female model on a motorcycle in the desert to which the female model is looking out into the distance with her head turned away from the camera while the male model is looking directly to the camera, indicating he is the focal point of the advertisement. On the side of the models, the…

geography of their region because of natural barriers. According to document 2, China is surrounded by the Himalaya, Pamir, Tian mountains, Takla Maklan desert, and the Gobi desert. Because of this, traveling and transporting was difficult, which prevented China from contacting with other cultures. In Egypt, it was protected by surrounding barriers of desert. Because it was surrounded by natural barriers, this resulted in Egypt to becoming isolated. However, since Egypt was self sufficient in…

Geography and Early Egypt Do you know about early life and early egypt? Many different types of things. For example, The Nile, Menes, and the two kingdoms. They are all very different but, very interesting. According to “ Ancient Egypt”, “ The ancient egyptians thought of egypt as being divided into two types of lands, the “ black land “ and the “ red land “. What is the Nile? The Nile is “ The Gift of the Nile “. It brought life to egypt, by its water. It allowed it to thrive.…