Shield volcano

It is the most diverse mountain in Europe. To start off, Vesuvius is the most active volcano in Europe, being the only one to erupt in 100 years. Which makes it strange that more people are living around it, than any other volcano region anywhere in the world, two million to be exact! It’s classified as a stratovolcano. That means that it was built up when lava, and other stuff that spewed out of the volcano, hardened; building up layers.Mt. Vesuvius is currently 4300 feet tall. The name may…

The Mount Tambora volcanic eruption commenced on April 10 1815, on Sumbawa one of the many Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. Mount Tambora is one of the many volcanoes in the ring of fire and the only volcano in recorded history to reach a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 7. On the day of the eruption the explosion was heard from approximately 2000 kilometres away among the Sumatran islands. Mount Tambora is described as a Stratovolcano a large volcan layered within with ash and magma form…

Ruins are usually associated with the destruction of physical objects, buildings, or cities. This devastation can come about in two ways: nature or man. Because ruins can be caused both naturally and artificially, I wonder about its impacts on the world. How and why are ruins depicted? A significant example of a natural ruin is the ancient Roman city of Pompeii after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Over two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for over a thousand years. However, as…

washed away with the rain. Most of the particles that come from volcanoes and go to the atmosphere cool the planet by shading incoming solar radiation. The cooling effect can last up to month’s even years; it all depends on how big the eruption was. Volcano eruptions have caused global warming over the past millions of years in Earth’s history, when big eruptions occur causing to release greenhouse…

watched my town fill with ash and sorrow whilst people I knew, people I cared for ran carelessly about in attempt to get away from the erupting volcano. I was at home with with my younger sister when Mount Vesuvius erupted. I hadn’t known where to go or what to do. With little direction in mind, we ran away from the city now infested with chemicals from the volcano. The gas drowned our lungs. I had little knowledge of where we would end up, all we knew is that we had to get away from Pompeii. We…

These works can act as either a distraction from our problems or create parallels to them allowing us to view them from a new light. In her essay “Because she’s a woman”: Myth and Metafiction in Carol Shields’ Unless, Nora Stovel, a renowned professor at the University of Alberta, argues that Carol Shields uses (particularly in her final book, Unless) metafiction to illustrate how fiction can be an escapist method to step…

society really wish for peace on earth and good will to all men; or would they rather forcefully take away from others and crown themselves a king in their own right? Homer presents a fantastic abstract on this subject through an artistic medium, the shield of Achilles, in book 18 of The Iliad. He creates a prognostication; depicting an entire world and the activities of its inhabitants. This predicted evolution contemplates the future of how justice and revenge, along with martial and civil…

Everything was perfect; we were on cloud 9, I had finally found someone who made me feel like I’m on top of the world… until he moved. The excitement I felt while I walked to class was unreal. I walked through the breezeway of the school and felt a slight chill from the cold cloudy day. I quickly turned into a hall and took in the warmth from the AC and found my much anticipated class, World Geography. I walked in and there he is facing the board. Slightly long blonde hair, a grey sweater that…

John McPhee’s The Control Of Nature tells three stories about how the Earth’s surface is changing. The stories have different settings, different plots, and different conclusions, but share two common themes that relate to our “enduring understandings” of Earth Science. The first theme is that the energy for the changes comes either from outer space (more specifically, the Sun), or from deep underneath the Earth’s surface. The other theme is that water and rock are never really created or…

Over the centuries, the city was abandoned and forgotten as the memory of Pompeii became nothing but a legend passed throughout generations by word of mouth. Despite the fact that the ancient objects from Pompeii were discovered sporadically, the city itself was not found until the 18th century. Ever since, excavations have gone deeper into the city’s mysterious secrets. Archaeological finds reveal how people lived during that time, as well as how they died during the…