Latitude

The monument I would create is in Boston, Massachusetts, which is a historically rich city, but I would create a monument to one specific event named the Boston Massacre. This is a significant event in the history of United States, where British troops murdered some Americans after they formed a mob. This partly led up to the Revolutionary War where America fought Britain. This monument would be made of dolomitic marble. It would contain a 20 x 20 replication of Paul Revere’s engraving of…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Columbus was on a mission to find a trade route from Spain to the East-Indies. In this event that changed the world forever, Christopher Columbus failed his mission. He instead landed on an island in the Bahamas, leading to the European discovery of the Americas. However, the technology of the time that Christopher Columbus used, was not as advanced as the technology used during current times. Some of the technology that has changed over time…

However, it is now concentrated in the developing world, which lost approximately 494 million acres from 1980 to 1995. Many of these forests are in the tropics, mountain regions, or high latitudes, places difficult to exploit before the advent of modern transportation and machines. The problem is especially serious in the tropics because they have high human population growth. For example, fire-related deforestation rose sharply in Indonesia…

Before the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884, almost every country in the world had some method of time recognition and a local prime meridian, which was in operation. Most people calculated time based upon the sun. Some communities used instruments to observe the suns zenith at noon. And with the development of the pendulum clock, in the 17th century, the observance of time was sufficiently accurate and was used at sea to determine longitudes in the 18th century. As travel improved, and forms…

The Civil War was a result of the political ideology differences between pro-slavery states, and anti-slavery states, concerning the government’s role in deciding whether slavery should be accepted or prohibited in new states entering the Union. Neither side felt that compromising would be an acceptable resolution, and once Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency in 1860, eleven states eventually seceded from the Union. The state of Missouri, however, was not one of these states, and yet…

The marine mammal I have chosen to do my research paper on is the Orca Whale, also known as a killer whale. The genus or scientific name is Orcinus, also known as the killer whale. I have chosen to do my paper on this marine mammal because ever since I was young, I loved going to Sea World and watching the Shamu show. These incredible animals grow up to weigh as much as six tons and grow in length between 23 and 32 feet long, the relative size of a school bus. Orca or killer whales are easy to…

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of the weather patterns. The changes are lasting for an extended period of time (It could be between a hundred or thousand years). The climate change is cause by both natural and human factors. In human factors, mainly due to the industrial revolution since the human activities, especially in the industrialized process of developed countries caused by economic activities, fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, land-use change and…

Part A The country China also known as the Red Dragon is great place for a tourist to stay, it has great culture and its history is magnificent. City Latitude Longitude Beijing 39.9042° N 116.4074° E Shanghai 31.2304° N 121.4737° E Why Go? The reason why a tourist should be motivated to go to China is mainly because of its culture individuals can be very fascinated by Chinese culture and seeing and also experience it. A tourist would also like to see historical monuments like the Great…

In order to develop the RARMA model, the CRTM has been applied on the ECMWF analyzed field to compute the GPM/GMI satellite brightness temperatures at each channel. Nevertheless, ECMWF analysis data is a 0.125° x 0.125° resolution product (6 h temporal resolution). Therefore, it has been necessary to interpolate the ECMWF analysis fields to the GMI footprint, in both time and space. This is done by employing a simple interpolation scheme that interpolates the ECMWF atmospheric and surface…

explorers were heading. Two other devices used by maritime explorers were the quadrant and astrolabe. The quadrant was used to determine the location that the ship was at sea, and the astrolabe was used to determine locations of a ship using lines of latitudes. In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press which not only made printing a lot cheaper and easier, but it also made it so information and discoveries in the form of maps, charts, and books could be copied and…