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Broome - Climate - Due to Broome’s unique location it is very hot during summer and has nice weather during the winter because it doesn’t get as cold as it would in the Southern Highlands because Broome is closer to the equator, tropical regions and is in the west of Australia and is not subject to cold winds blown from Antarctica. January to March is the wettest time of year in Broome. Tropical cyclones can occur from November to April but are most common in January and February. Between…

Columbia, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil covers 5,319,928 square miles. It is the fifth largest country in the world. Brazil has many magnificent landforms. It is divided into four physical regions: Amazonia, the Brazilian Highlands, the East Coast,…

It was a normal day on the Carver Farm in Missouri in 1864. Moses Carver was plowing his field with Giles his slave along side him. Susan Carver was in their home washing the dishes and preparing for supper with Mary Giles wife alongside her with her two kids setting the table and little baby George asleep in his cradle. After dinner, when everyone was fed, they went out in the fields again to do more chores. All of a sudden men on horses came to their farm and snatched up Mary, George and his…

Coach Sarah attended Lake Highlands High School and took some courses at Richland College. She married her high school sweetheart, Mr. Matt and has two cute puppies named Bentley and Hadley. Sarah’s favorite books are the Harry Potter series. When she isn’t at ASI, she enjoys reading, watching movies, and staying active with her husband and family. AS a child Coach Sarah was a dancer starting from the age of 3. In high school she was a member of the Lake Highlands drill team, the Highlandettes…

What if, instead of going to the doctor, you received a visit from a nurse – on horseback? That’s how the nurses of the Frontier Nursing Service travelled to see their patients. The patients lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A hundred years ago, these communities were far from towns and hospitals. No one had a car, and railroad stations were miles away. When people got sick or had new babies, no doctor was close enough to help. A nurse named Mary Breckinridge had been to Scotland,…

Why do Southwest Asia and North Africa form a useful world region? What are some of the problems associated with defining the region? Southwest Asia and North Africa form a useful world reason because the countries that make it up are fairly similar in climate and culture, and in their wealth of oil. In terms of climate, this region consists mostly of desert, making this region useful in grouping these countries together. Culturally, this region is cited as the place the major world religions…

where Africa’s highest peak located. Central Tanzania is a large plateau known as Southern highlands with plains and arable land. Savannah covers over half of the country and the desert covers the remaining land area. The western shore consists of plain land along the coast of Indian Ocean [2]. The topographical map of Tanzania shown in figure1. 1.2.2 Climate: Tanzania is located in Tropical Climate. In highlands the temperature ranges between 10 to 20o C during cold and hot seasons…

A Method to the Madness: Understanding the Politics of Irrigation in the Andes. Paul Gelles, Water and Power in Highland Peru: The Cultural Politics of Irrigation and Development is an interesting take on the evolution and adaptation of the indigenous traditions surrounding irrigation water in the Colca valley of Peru. Gelles describes how traditional systems of irrigation coexist and compete along modern, government-sponsored models. The main focus is on how “competing structures of power and…

Human beings are influenced by both their genetics and the environment they are raised in. There is a great deal of evidence for both nature and nurture, so why can’t we realize that both can have an impact? Throughout history, the homo species has had to fight for survival. We as humans, for the most part, do not need to fight for food and shelter, yet some of our animal instincts remain. It is not so crazy to say that humans are effected by nature and the environment they grew up in. As we…

Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson is mainly about the Adventures of David Balfour: How He Was Kidnapped and Cast Away; His Sufferings in A Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart And Other Notorious Highland Jacobites; His Suffering at the Hands of Uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. In this book, it was most important to…