Low impact development

The Wardaman people of northern Australia tell of Utdjungon, a being who lives in the Coalsack nebula by the Southern Cross. He will cast a fiery star to the Earth if laws and traditions are not followed. The falling star will cause the earth to shake and the trees to topple. The Luritja people of Central Australia also tell stories about a fire devil coming down from the Sun, an object that fell to Earth as punishment for breaking sacred law, crashing into Earth and killing everything in the…

the age of Enlightenment. The strongest statement was advanced by the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft. She argued that women should have equal rights with men in education, as well as in economic and political life. Enlightenment thought had some impact on the political life and social equality of European states in the eighteenth century. The philosophies believed in natural rights for all people. These included equality before the law, freedom of religious worships, freedom of speech and…

non-avian dinosaurs became extinct following the asteroid impact, yet birds survived (Kukuchi and Vanneste 2010). The impact of ground-level ozone with respect to varying survival rates among dinosaurs had hardly been considered since the K-T impact theory was reported. More recently, however, reverse trajectory models actually predicted an ozone concentration above the health-threatening level that persisted near the ground after the K-T impact (Kukuchi and Vanneste 2010). Due to potential…

loyalty, and customers’ loyalty is affected by customers’ satisfaction (as cited in Gu, Qiu and Yang, 2004). In order to make more benefits, customers’ satisfaction becomes a large part in the marketing. Service is always considered as a crucial impact of customer satisfaction in the marketing. According to (Lv, 2008), service is the main factor in the marketing. It directly affects customers’ actions and satisfaction. He suggests that service is an intangible production, it is supposed to sell…

establish the setting in several stories. Commonly, the author’s use of nature serves a dual purpose within the story, which aids in potentially forming a wide array of interpretations for readers. In the short story Chicxulub, the narrator compares the impact he felt when he received news of his daughter being involved in a potentially fatal accident, to asteroid and meteor strikes Chicxulub and Tunguska. Chicxulub is the asteroid that struck during the age of the dinosaurs and theorized to…

species to extinction even quickly than they should be. Marine species especially cannot run from this reality and are going to extinct even faster and it is all caused by either direct or indirect impacts of the human activity. Hunting and capturing for marine species is a human activity that gives direct impact as they are overexploiting them for trading purpose. Blue…

How did the dinosaurs die There are many theories on how the dinosaurs became extinct over 100 million years ago. The theory that is most common, is the asteroid theory. The asteroid theory proposes the idea that an asteroid hit the earth, reduced levels of sunlight, and dropped temperatures, resulting in plants being unable to grow, the plant eaters dying, and leaving no food for the meat eaters. This theory is like a major chain reaction, wiping out every dinosaur on the planet. Another…

The prologue opens with MARTIN JEFFRIES frantically runs through a fire to rescue a young girl before passing out. Twenty-one years earlier, Martin meeting MONICA at a bar in Gainesville, Fl. Monica convinces Martin to right an exposé on astronomer Dr. STEVEN HUTCHINSON. However, there is a fire the night of the Lecture so Martin has to send his field reporter JESSICA SCOBBLES to cover the story in his place. After the lecture, Jessica has a private interview with Dr. Hutchinson, where he…

Brontosaurus Othniel Charles Marsh discovered and named the Brontosaurus (Greek “thunder lizard”), a four-legged dinosaur in 1879. With at least three known species, this dinosaur lived in the Morrison Formation of present day Western US, during the late Jurassic Period and became extinct by the end of the period. Perhaps one of the most controversially classified dinosaurs, paleontologists have reclassified the Brontosaurus several times since its discovery to an extent that some quarters…

could have happened, and of course all hypotheses would be subject to analysis. Asteroid impact theory. The impact of a 10 km+ asteroid would blow a huge rock and vapor above the atmosphere, this would form a large dust cloud that would settle out slowly through the atmosphere during a few weeks, months, or even years. The impact and cloud would spread material that would cover the entire world.…