Human geography

The difference between having a Creator mindset and having a Victim mindset is the difference between success and failure. In his book, On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, Dr. Skip Downing defines Creators as people who make choices that result in the outcomes they want to achieve. He defines Victims, however, as people who leave their choices to chance, reacting to things that happen in their lives, instead of making things happen, which often has unfavorable…

Is it Privacy or Protection? In this generation, there is no such thing as privacy. Privacy is something that people will always want, but they will never fully get or earn, which Paul Woodward and Geoffrey R. Stone classified. Paul Woodward, software knowledge architect, editor, designer, and owner of the Website War in Context, is a bricoleur that untwists political judgments by applying critical intelligence for his readers. In his article “Privacy and Democracy” he explains the importance of…

Biome is a group of ecosystems related by similar types of vegetation with similar climatic conditions. For example: desert, tropical rain forests, artic tundra, etc. Biotic are living things in an ecosystem. For example humans, animal, bacteria and fungi. Abiotic are the none living parts of the ecosystems. For example: temperature, water, gases, soil and the sun. Here are a few examples of biotic and abiotic factors in which I like. Plants and water, without water and…

There are many reasons that status symbols are a dreadful thing to constantly look to in order to shape one's life. It causes morally wrong actions, unrealistically high expectations for those with high social standards and unrealistically low standards in those with low social class Despite the consequences it seems that most people in the world, like Okonkwo, strive to have a high status symbol due to the possibility of respect and wealth. First of all, people will do terrible things if it…

of human beings and how the many different emotions influence the way people act and feel on a day to day basis. Goleman believes that emotional intelligence contributes just as much as IQ intelligence because of how there are many different factors that influence people’s emotions in a certain way. Some factors can cause a person to become angry, happy, sad, jealous, or loved. The main point that Goleman makes about this theory is that because emotions stem from different parts of the human…

trait. 4 Even aging, the decomposition of the body over time, has an evolutionary advantage. Cancer is a disease based upon abnormal cells multiplying uncontrollably and eating away at healthy body tissue. Leonard Hayflick discovered in the 1960s that human cells only reproduce 50-60 times before essentially dying. This keeps a “check” on uncontrollable reproduction, preventing some cancerous cells from exploding. However, the Hayflick Limit also programs an expiration date, leading to…

The outback is a crazy place but not for Mason. Mason is a madman he does crazy things like jumping from a plane with no parachute or doing back flips on top of skyscrapers. Mason is always bored there was nothing out of his comfort zone. But one day Mason had an idea. Mason wanted to destroy the record for the fastest time crossing the desert, the record was set by an Australian man at twenty-six hours and 45 minutes and trust me that is fast. But he wanted to demolish that record he wanted to…

likely very little. Much like when John Donne, a famous philosopher says: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”. What can be taken away from both the question and quote is exactly this - humans were meant to be together. This way we can learn ‘common sense’, important lessons, and morals from others and go on to reshare them. Not only to better ourselves but also mankind. In The Last Lecture this concept is displayed in some of the…

In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dick distinguishes humans from androids by their ability to develop empathy through the social interactions between androids and humans, in which they highlight each other’s differences, thus Dick reveals that the lack of empathy within human society leads to the misunderstanding and segregation of societal classes. The characterization of androids and people within Rick’s society displays the potential effects of Dick's society if it…

complete depletion. Dr. Seuss’ 1972 TV movie, The Lorax exemplifies ideas from The Tragedy of the Commons. These ideas include putting pollution into nature is just as bad as taking something out, human nature to breed and give birth to an exuberant amount of children, and then there is the impossible human thought of making infinite things out of a finite world. The Lorax portrays the idea of putting pollution into nature by showing how it affects the living creatures in the environment. There…