Ganges

The effects of infrastructure can be dire to the civilization staying afloat. In Mesopotamia they had a very good prosperous irrigation system created by the Sumerian People, with these Irrigation systems they “ tapped into rivers, built reservoirs, and dug canals, so they could irrigate fields of Barkley, wheat and peas”(Ziegler 26). With these irrigation systems came migrations of different people, such as the Semitic People as they became more prosperous they acquired a government and…

Species Taxonomy- The gharial is taxonomically classified under: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Crocodylia Family: Gavialidae Genus: Gavialis Species: gangeticus The Indian gharial is also known as the gharial, fish-eating crocodile, Indian gavial, gavial, and long-nose crocodile. The name gharial is derived from the Hindi work “ghara” which means pot and refers to the bulb on the end of the crocodile’s snout. There are no taxonomic discrepancies…

been many places traveling the world. General Zaroff had traveled around this world. Zaroff was born in Russia, and he had “Hunted every kind of animal in every land.” He also stated “I continued to hunt--grizzliest in your Rockies, crocodiles in the Ganges, rhinoceroses in East Africa.” He has been to and seen many more places than Rainsford has. Since Zaroff has been around the world he has seen many different cultures because of that he is highly advanced in society and culture…

the girl and is shocked when the boys return from the hunting trip almost in a ghost like appearance. The girl after Framton hurries out of the house turns to the Aunt and replies, "He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs." She immediately turns around to her aunt and deceives her with a quick wit. This is the second reason for the theme of…

drinking water being contaminated and dead fish floating in the river, further contaminating the water. There was also a large amount of garbage that collected in the river, as a result of pollution. In India, according to document 5, pollution in the Ganges River threatened the health of people, threatened the faith of the Hindus, and threatened the cultural traditions and practices of the people in…

Bangladesh encounters annual river flooding due to both snowmelt water from the Himalayan mountains through the two major rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, as well as more local rainfall in the catchments of the rivers, including the third major river, the Meghna (Ali 1996). These floods cause tremendous destruction and loss of life as well as damage to crops and other infrastructure. They also cause the spread of diarrheal diseases which are a major health hazard for the people of…

volume of Maurice’s book did not show Brahma on the lotus flower but Vishnu on the hooded serpent. In the plate, the caption reads: “VEESHNU reposing during a CALPA, an astronomical period of a thousand Ages … copied from a sculptured rock in the Ganges”.…

It is said that the last Ice Age that occurred happened about 1.8 million years ago and it last for roughly 11,700 years; since then our planet has seen a drastic change in the glaciers that once covered huge parts of the land. Global warming should no longer be a debatable topic, about whether it is really happening, or if humans are the reason as to why, but instead we need to discuss the scientific evidences that have shown the effects Global Warming has caused. The Earth naturally keeps its…

Gideon Rosen beautifully articulates the role that culture plays in presenting values and that by recognizing and integrating those values, it gives meaning to our lives. I believe culture does fill our lives with wonderful things while integration of cultural values is not always by choice or by recognition of its value. Most often, values are integrated into our lives without recognition by following customs that give meaning to our actions and behavior. Moreover, the recognition of these…

This article focuses on the 19th century India in the social, historical, religious, political and cultural contexts.The pre-renaissance period can be marked as the background to welcome the Renaissance in India with a special reference to the advent of the British in India as an external influence on the internal, as the influence of the West on the East.India as an identity rests not only on the history of discrete people but also on cultures given its socio-political, socio-religious and…