Pico Island

Catarina Fonseca, Carlos Pereira da Silva, Helena Calado, Fabiana Moniz, Chiara Bragagnolo, Artur Gil, Mike Phillips, Margarida Pereira and Miguel Moreira in their study Coastal and Marine Protected Areas as Key Elements for Tourism in Small Islands (2014) examined MPA impacts in Pico Island tourism. Fonseca et al. (2014) argue that “[t]ourism can play an important role in small islands’ economies … through job creation, tax revenues, and increased value of local products”. Fonseca et al. (2014) found that MPAs are ideal locations for tourists to experience attractions in nature where tourists can participate in popular activities like whale watching, bathing, and diving. Fonseca et al. (2014) conducted their study by surveying tourists visiting Pico Island. The focus of the questionnaires ranged from activities tourists partook on their visit, opinions of MPAs, and popular attraction sites. From the 134 questionnaires, Fonseca et al. (2014) found that while 21.6 percent of participants visited Pico island for its mountain landscape “and natural values”, 20.1 percent of participants chose the “maritime tourist activities” that were offered on the island. When asked which areas where tourists visited most, “84.3 percent of respondents pointed protected areas other than those already mentioned”, MPAs accounted for 34.3 percent of participants, 66.4 percent of respondents chose “Lajes village (where most of the…

Alaina Olson Professor Wilcox PHI2600 26 September 2017 Alaina Olson: The Banning of Books Case Study: Island Trees School District v. Pico In March of 1982, the Supreme Court case of Island Trees School District v. Pico, five students, including the high school senior Steven Pico, fought in Washington D.C. for their first amendment right. The outcome of this case would forever change school districts rules and regulations across the nation. During the school year of 1975-1976, the Island…

What’s difference between being alone and feeling lonely? Some say loneliness is the unhappiness that is often felt when they do not have friends or no one to turn to; some say loneliness is an emotion, but being alone can be a choice. Being to many places usually out of everyone’s travel plan, Pico Iyer finds that we often feel lonely when we are in a crowd, but not part of the it. In his work, “Lonely Places,” Pico Iyer depicts a unique outlook of several “lonely places” where are…

Richard Shang Mrs. McQuay English 11 May 15 2017 Marginalization in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Time and time again people see how marginalization of a group can create psychological and emotional problems such as anxiety, fear, and depression. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz explores these specific issues through the brief life of Oscar de Leon and his family. The repeated marginalization of Oscar and his his family causes him to express self-doubt and depression,…

“I think that when I write, I write out of who I am and the questions I need to figure out” (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 169). Everyone has a way to escape reality, some draw, some listen to music, some take a nap, while others merely read and write, such as Julia Alvarez. The self proclaimed Dominican- American explains so in the Bloomsbury Review as her early life has consisted of many hardships that her writing addresses at one point or another throughout her poetry and novels.…

Although I had lived in America for almost half my life, I didn’t know anything back then because I was too young. I was too young to notice the things that were going on around me; I just focused on having fun, leveling up my game characters, and training my Pokemon. However, moving here when I was a freshman in high school I could easily tell the differences and notice the changes much like Pico Iyer’s observations in his essay, “Where Worlds Collide”. Everything was so different. Every single…

“Chucha shakes me awake. Sunlight is streaming in through the jalousie windows. Before I can ask her what’s the matter, gangster men in their dark glasses storm into the room, thrusting their guns here and there in the corners of the closet and under my bed, in search of something they can not find. Chucha and I clutch each other and watch the men pulling open drawers, throwing my clothes into the floor. Soon another bunch of men come into the room, pushing Mami in her nightgown before them.…

Many world leaders throughout history have attempted to compose the great society, or as they believed, utopia. On these occurrences, they in some way try to subdue the creative and free thinking side of human nature. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Mustapha Mond achieves universal stability. As we see in the New World society, stability is made the first priority at the expense of most of the people 's intrinsic human faculties. Mond explains eloquently and quite persuasively to John and…

argument using a theory of convergent evolution. This hybrid five-part inductive argument allows Coyne to explain some attributes of island species that remained puzzles for Darwin. Secondly, this hybrid…

How close is modern America’s government to controlling all, if not most, of our society today? Our current government gradually begins to take over the lives of people like that in Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World depicts a futuristic society that utilizes science to control the lives of mostly everybody by categorizing them into specific castes. The author’s vision of a utopian society in his novel is relatively, but not entirely, close to modern American society.…