Savannah

As the demand for the trees exceeds regeneration, deforestation has become the most visible threat as the country of Somalia as a whole is running out of trees. The self declared state of Somaliland that once prided itself on being the heart of savannah is now a desert area as the trees have becomes an issue because of the charcoal business and industry that is very harmful to the environment, the burning of trees and forests does extreme damage to the climate and high demand of trees required…

The various slave trades in Africa did not have the same effects on the continent. In this paper I will examine three slave trades and explore their specific impact on Africa society. This paper will primarily examine the available historical evidence on what political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic effects each slave trade had on the regional area where they captured Africans. First I will explore the oldest slave trades in Africa, the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades.…

Global world population is expected to hit the 9 billion mark by 2050. Besides the growing population, hunger is another problem that has affected at least 800 million people across the world, mostly females. Both issues can be addressed by increasing food productivity. However, the process of increasing food productivity has not been favorable to the environment for these past years. As a result, a sustainable way needs to be completed to increase food productivity and improve food security…

Black child in the class. Despite not being the only African-American in the class, I still encountered problems regarding my race. At times I was called an “Oreo” (Black on the outside, White on the inside) or kids would say things such as “Oh, Savannah? She’s not really Black”. The thing that shocked me the most about these comments is that they were coming primarily from my White classmates. In Maintaining Inequalities, Tracy Ore writes that “the media engage in practices of media framing—the…

compensation hypothesis, even though the hypothesis lacks sufficient data. Pickering and Domínguez-Rodrigo note similarities between Mio-Pliocene hominin hunting and chimpanzee hunting, which included early hominins like chimpanzees occupied seasonal savannah habitats, and these paleohabitats would have experienced seasonal fluctuation, which would have caused protein/nutrient availability to fluctuate as well. Therefore, hominins would have consumed animal carcasses to gain proteins, which is…

After the events of WWII, to say that America had changed drastically was an understatement; with the entirety of the Cold War, amongst other political strife at home and abroad, America during this time was an era of conflicting ideals. Consequently, literature changed its perspective; most commonly, however, was the transition from modernist ideals to postmodernist ideals. Much like modernism, post-modernism offered to reject the ideals presented by popular trends during their time; yet for…

Biology Assignment Mega Fauna Scientific Name: Genyornis Newtoni Common Name: Genyornis Newtoni (Thunder Bird) General Description: Genyornis Newtoni was the last of the large, flightless mihirungs native to Australia. Genyornis was a heavy built bird that stood over 2 metres tall, with small wings and massive hind legs. Mihirungs had deep lower jaws and a distinctly shaped quadrate bone that connect the upper and lower jaw. Genyornis had a wedge-shaped head to go along with its unusually…

A young boy named Tim was running away from home on a cold night because he wanted to see what life would be like at a young age like him. Without his parents even noticing he jumped out of the window and ran into the woods and he walked into these big cities and towns. Keep on reading and you will hear the whole story. Tim was born on July 21,1861. When he was 4 years old his dad told him how to run,play baseball,and told him how to walk. When his dad told him all of these things,Tim told…

Science Aspect 1 – Who am I? Scientific Name: Equus Caballus Common Name: Horse Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Kingdom: Animalia Genus: Equus Species: Caballus (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, 2012) (Scientific classification of horses, n.d.,) (Fredrickson, 2000) Aspect 2 – Reasons for the Introduction The story of the Brumby began in 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Australia (Dawson, 2005). Domestic horses originated from England and were…

Wednesday. "From that time on, they were known as Mr. and Mrs. Civil Rights.” (Lyman). Also according to Montgomery Adviser, “But her work for voting rights and against discrimination began decades earlier, when she helped her mother register voters in Savannah, Georgia, her birthplace, as a 10-year-old in the early 1920s.” (Lyman). As seen in an article from NPR, “At the height of the civil rights movement, she was among the few African-Americans in Selma who had successfully registered to…