The Doomsday Seed Vault: The Syrian War Prompts First Withdrawal There is a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies. Now for the first time since the vault was opened on the Svalbard archipelago in 2008, seeds have been withdrawn. The original intent or charter if you will is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice, and wheat against the worst cataclysms of nuclear war or disease (Doyle, 2015). Once you crack the seal, or pop the cork as the…
Entertainment during the middle ages. In the middle ages parties or festivals as they were called back in the day were held almost every holiday. And the peasants and knights would get the day off. These festivals were only held on special occasions like holidays like easter Christmas and all the other saint days. During the festivals, there would be singing and dancing, eating and drinking. Depending on what town or city you lived in, you’d celebrate different ways due to local culture.…
70 million years ago, the most recent of apocalyptic extinction events occurred, wiping out the dinosaurs and signaling the start of a new era. The Cenozoic Era (age of mammals) has been split into seven sections called epochs with the final epoch being called the Holocene epoch, which brought forth a new ecosystem that harbored humanity. To conclude the eras that occurred previously, there have been five apocalyptic extinction events that occur roughly every 100 million year, and considering…
In collaboration these three separate events and festivals all together as they developed separately have now developed in to the big festival itself Festival Acadiens et Créole (“Festival Acadiens”). These events allowed for the festival to grow into something that celebrates all the aspects of the Cajun Créole culture. Rather than it just being a smaller event broken up into a day things it came together to a five-day event. More non-local people are more likely to come in for a festival that…
The Permian Mass Extinction Introduction There are five major extinctions in history: the Late Devonian, the Ordovician-Silurian, the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Known as the Big Five, these extinctions exceeded all others in size and destruction, each killing more than 60% of species from that period. Each one acted as a bottleneck, allowing the survival of only a fraction of the organisms that had been thriving before, from which evolution and life…
of cards. If you randomly shuffle them, there are an infinite amount of possibilities you could have. It’s the same with life. In order for me just to be alive, there are an infinite number of events that had to happen a certain way in order for it to be this outcome. This theory illustrates that every event that happened, God caused it to happen a certain way, making a certain outcome. This outcome was dinosaurs becoming extinct. We need to remember that God is always in control, and will make…
Picture yourself standing among the various dinosaurs 252 million years ago, when hurtling from the sky a massive meteorite colliding into the earth resulting in one of the largest mass extinction to come, commonly referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction, in Earth’s history shifting Earth into a new era: The Mesozoic Era. Frequently mentioned to as “Age of Reptiles” due to the amount of reptiles that predominated the lands, however they were not alone; land-dwelling vertebrate animals and…
In November of 2000, over 60 percent of California voters approved the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act, a statute designed to aid non-violent drug offenders (“California Proposition 36”). Under Proposition 36, individuals convicted of non-violent drug offenses are offered probation and community-based treatment programs, in lieu of incarceration (“California Proposition 36”). The concept behind the proposition is commendable, but also very controversial. In terms of eligibility and…
Although, there is so many ways you can plan an event or function. There is nothing like planning and preparing for the best time of your life. To plan the perfect party, holiday, birthday, or road trip is a fun process that involves figuring out a budget, setting a date, time, and location, and finding out who all will be attending. I will be providing you with some information that can help and guide you to just that. Keeping a checklist is the best way to plan a party. The first step is to…
In 21st century, modern technology is developed fast and fast. Increasingly numbers of using technology in the workplace nowadays. Using of modern technology in the service in order to help customer becomes popular in the marketing. Also, managing technologies for providing high-quality customer supports creates a complex challenge (Froehle, 2006). To understand how to use the technology properly in the service for the sake of improving customers’ satisfaction is one of the issue of lots of…