Sea of Marmara

The five themes of geography include location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and region. They help answer questions such as where is it located, what it is like, what is the relationship between the humans and the environment, how places connect with one another, why is one similar to the other. In 1984, the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers felt the need to arrange the way geography students learned about areas. Thus, these…

Picking a tropical destination for your annual vacation is sometimes an overwhelming task. If your choice of destination favors a Caribbean getaway setting, your best recommendations would be Jamaica or the Bahamas. Each of these islands provides remarkable sceneries, a cool, relaxing atmosphere and the tropical sunshine. Both Jamaica and the Bahamas are what vacation destinations are made of. In this regard here are some points to assist you in making your pick. On arrival, you may want to…

King Triton is Ariel’s father. Ariel is a sixteen-year-old girl that despises living under the sea. From the beginning of the movie, she is seen obsession over humans and human artifacts. King Triton is not fond of people because of his terrifying experience with the fisherman. He warns Ariel to stay away from humans because they will kill her. In…

Lazio is also known as Latium. It is located in center of Italy and it is home to the capital city of Rome. Lazio is the third most populated region in Italy it has 5,732,212 population in 2011 estimation. The region total area is 6,655 sq mi. Shares it's bounded by the Apennine Mountains to the east and the Tyrrhenian coast to the west, Lazio is occupied with woods and pastures, hills and valleys, rivers and lakes, and as many as twenty-five nature parks and reserves. Lazio experienced a rush…

“I don’t want to die in sea. I don’t want to die alone. I would rather die with my family. If I had known all the dangers I would face, I wouldn’t have left Syria, even with the death threats,” says Zizit Abdel Algabbar. Zizit Abdel Algabbar, is a Syrian doctor who fled Syria because she received death threats from the Islamic state, they accused her of helping the opposition because she treated the injured patients at her clinic. A smuggler in Athens agrees to take Zizit and her daughter Maya…

The Squalus acanthus is nicknamed the dog fish because they are known to feed in packs which is similar to the habits of dogs, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium website. These sharks are classified as chondrichthyes (“Squalus Acanthias”). According to the article Spiny Dogfish, the dogfish’s relatives include the Pygmy shark and the Sleeper shark. The Squalus acanthus has an endoskeleton skeleton type. They live in the interdial zone up to 900 meters deep. The dogfish sharks swim in water…

Endurance by Alfred Lansing is an intense, attention-grabbing story based on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to be the first person to ever cross the continent of Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton was an Irish Explorer who specialized to explorations to the Artic region. His first exploration to the Artic region was under the command of Robert Scott from 1901-1903. Six years later, he was knighted for commanding the successful British Antarctica Expedition that began in 1907 and ended in 1909. On…

When I first think of Egypt all I can picture are the pyramids located there and miles of hot desert. I learned a lot about Ancient Egypt while I was in school. I also watched many documentaries about Ancient Egyptian history and the pyramids themselves. I never pictured people living there or even imagined anyone living in Egypt. The only people I imagined to be in Egypt were archaeologists and tourists. But, approximately 92 million people do call Egypt home. In movies and documentaries, Egypt…

Strategic access to the Suez Canal made Egypt valuable to British interests. During the First World War, the Ottoman Empire attacked the unprepared British troops in Egypt but fell back before reaching the canal. Alarmed by the Ottoman Empire’s attack in 1915, Britain further increased its presence in Egypt under the command of General Edmund Allenby. By maintaining an efficient supply line to Egypt, the British were able to hold their ground against the Ottoman Empire in Egypt until the…

Algeria Algeria's coast provides easily-defended harbors that served as the basis for port cities since the time of the Phoenicians in the first millennium BCE. Since then, Romans, Vandals, Ummayyids, Abbassids, and Fatimids all controlled the coast at different periods, and by the 1500s, the ports were brought under the nominal control of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman government was represented by officials in Oran and Algiers who received protection from Ottoman military garrisons. By the…