earth’s natural recourses. People have destroyed them to the extent that some creatures are actually at risk of extinction. Plastic wastes are one of the main reasons for the death of sea turtles. whale hunters hunt whales and sharks are finned and caught in nets. Animals under the labeled endangered are whales, sharks, and sea turtles. The main causes for their population decrease are man-made. Topic sentence: Whales roam throughout all of the world’s oceans, communicating with complex and…
upcoming apocalypse to the Dead Sea Scrolls. But what do we really know about the Dead Sea Scrolls? Were they written to prophesy future events of catastrophes and death? Or are they just ancient scrolls that just so happened to be found near the Dead Sea? While researching the history about the…
people can be led back to a group of people known as “the sea people”, the impact of this brought about the death of Merneptah.This was a period that brought about the movement of a lot of people known as settlers which included the Israelites, Midianites and Ammonites. The migration of people from different places and different cultures brought about the attraction of “The sea people”. Furthermore, there was not a lot of facts known about the sea people at first, the group was described as…
In the book Into the Killing Seas by Michael P. Spradlin, two boys, Patrick and his younger brother Teddy are bound from their parents due to the war. Trying to get reunited with their parents, Patrick and Teddy get smuggled on a ship called the USS Indianapolis by their marine friend Benny. On their way to Leyte their ship gets torpedoed by the Japanese and Patrick, Benny and Teddy had to quickly evacuate. When they got off of the ship Benny, Patrick and Teddy had to survive on a raft, on top…
It is surrounded by three oceans—the Indian, Pacific and the Southern oceans, together with the Tasman, Timor, Arafura and Coral Seas [20],(4)which provides abundant seawater for desalinate and save cost .In addition, desalination technology has been developed in recent years, which increased water productivity, reduced energy consumption and fouling. With these developments, water…
The song that I chose was “Sea” by BTS. The song holds a lot of meaning, to not just me, but to a lot of people worldwide. I chose this song because it has a lot of hidden meaning behind it, more than what we can observe. I feel like I can connect with this song because the song talks about how to think positive when your having a hard time, and I tend to do that. One of the lines that I feel has the biggest impact on me is, “Even if I’m nervous, even if I’m in a desert / I’m in the beautiful…
1) By a “commons”, Hardin refers to a shared resource, such as public land, National Parks, and the seas. One of Hardin’s most prominent example refers to herdsmen on commonly-shared land. Each herdsman will attempt to raise as much cattle as possible, Hardin argues, on the land. However, the land can only sustain a certain number of cattle. The tragedy occurs when each herdsman continues to add more and more cattle, in order to maximize their profit, without thinking about the negative…
Loggerhead Sea Turtle The Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta Caretta) is an endangered species of turtle that lives and nests on the beaches of Georgia’s barrier islands. The Loggerhead Sea Turtles was listed on the threatened species list on July 28, 1978. There are 7 species of sea turtles, and the Loggerhead turtle is one of five found on the Georgia barrier islands. The Loggerhead turtle is the only one of those that nests regularly on the barrier islands. This species of turtle lives in oceans…
The Periplus of Erythrean Sea is a source used by many historians because it is one of the few written sources from that long ago. There are a few important details that are unknown to historians such as the author and the date it was written. Historians know that it was written by the Greeks and speculate it was written sometime between 40 and 70 AD. This source discusses the trade that happened between the Greeks, Indians, Africans, and Arabians. This journal is broken into 66 sections. This…
on a small island and fishing village off the cost of northern Norway, called Sommarøy, near Tromsø. Her father was a fisherman and her mother was a Sami from Finnmark, which also lived off the sea. From her, I have heard many stories about her experiences and the history of Norway’s connection to the sea. She didn’t go this far back, but the Scandinavians’ utilization of the marine environment is nothing new, it dates back all the way to the Mesolithic era. During the Mesolithic era, people in…