Islands of the Forth

Question NO 4 How did Mackinder’s observation of ongoing conflict between sea-based and land-based power influence the development of British foreign policy? To explain this essay question about Mackinder’s observation of ongoing conflict between sea-based and land-based power influence the development of British foreign policy; Mackinder is extensively supposed as the most authoritative defender of established geopolitics, and his lessons about the Pivot of British History and Heartland are…

materials including more vines, dry coconut hairs and a flexible stick to make a bow drill. I grab a dry piece of wood and make a bevel in it for the bow drill to do its work. I hold a rock on the top so it doesn’t hurt my hand and work it back and forth in hopes of making coal. Luckily it worked the way I liked and I set the coals in the dry material. I then…

protests with it flowing into their ears; it uplifts their humanity during spiritual and religious ritual and it is an outlet for their bottomless pit of sorrow. As well, music can raise African people’s political consciousness. On the Caribbean Island of…

the century after these same routes were responsible for carrying smallpox which wiped out one-third of the population in affected areas. Another major epidemic occurred in the thirteenth century when Mongol horseman carrying infected fleas, brought forth the Bubonic…

Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a story about a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, uses symbolism such as the color purple, animals, and the algae island as a way to represent the ways Pi's survival, but water, the profoundest symbol shown throughout the novel. Shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, Pi has to worry about events such as, hunger, loneliness and that come with the ocean, but he will have overcome these things he will have to overcome to survive and the water with help him. When…

been around since the ancient Greeks, Charles Darwin introduced a plausible mechanism for evolution known as natural selection. Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection was sparked upon his visit to the Galapagos Islands. Darwin observed unique creatures that were similar from island to island but were perfectly adapted to their environments. This observation lead him to consider the origins of the island’s inhabitants which later on became the foundation of his Theory of Natural…

The Ottoman empire was first found in the thirteen hundreds. The empire stretches much further back, but it was under the leadership of Osman that this great empire succeeded in moving out from its territory in northwestern Anatolia and started conquering and taking over other territories. The first main victory took place in the Balkans, and these conquests led them to return to western Anatolia flush with money and men. In the middle of the fifteenth century they had already took some…

highways. The atlas illustrates the animals, food, people, places, and everything else that New Orleans has to offer in vivid detail through first-person essays written by everyday people. Two essays that delve into these subjects are, “On a Strange Island” by Billy Sothern and “The Presence of the Past” by sisters Dana and Dawn Logsdon. Sothern takes his readers on an excursion to all of his favorite places in New Orleans, despite how abnormal (i.e. Holt Cemetery) they seem, while the Logsdon…

the Indians creation stories they start with the Earth pre-created. As an example, in the book of “Genesis” it reads “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Or how in “How the World Was made” it says, “The earth is a great floating island in a sea of water.” Also, “The Sky Tree” reports, “In the beginning Earth was covered with water.” Another thing the stories seem to disagree about is how humans came to be. “The Sky Tree” talks about how, “In Sky Land, there were people…

conflict and appreciating the things you have. The story begins with Odysseus as he has just won the Trojan War. He was very excited to return home because he had been away for ten endless years, so he departed from the goddesses Calypso's island towards home. Unfortunately, on his way back his wife, Penelope was facing conflict herself. Many suitors were vying for Penelope's hand in marriage. Also, many were determined…