Sumatra

Earthquakes and Society Earthquakes are a part of this planet. These tremors can cause numerous damages to society. Such destruction, costs or changes to the Earth, can vary depending on the location of the earthquake. Many times earthquakes will cause severe harm to society and its surroundings. If for some reason, these earthquakes occur in places or areas with low populations, the results or damages, will be less. This means that if an earthquake happens in the dessert, where populations are…

Since money has time value in every economy, so evaluating cash flows which were generated from some periods requires a procedure. The discounted cash flow provides a rational technique to calculate a present value which might help in adjusting the future cash flows to depict the fact that money planned to receive in future features lesser worth than what is being received at present. Its analysis involves the use of future free cash flow and discounts them to find the present value, which is…

Marco Polo was an explorer who sculpted the world we live in today. He traveled from his Venetian home to China along the Silk Roads. In China, he worked for one of the most powerful leaders in his time, Kublai Khan. This gave him a firsthand experience with one of Europe’s powerful leaders. His travels were later recorded into a book called the, II Milione, which gave Europeans insight of the world beyond them. His book inspired other Europeans to travel to unknown lands. Marco Polo is…

Indian Ocean. The magnitude of this earthquake was a 9.3 on the Richter scale. According to this scale, anything over a 9 results in “near-total destruction, waves moving through the earth visible with naked eye. The epicenter was off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. According to the California Institute of Technology, this earthquake ruptured the greatest fault length of 1500 kilometers. This rupture lasted about 10 minutes long. During this event, there were two tectonic plates that were stuck…

The word volcano typically brings to mind a mountain with fire spewing forth from the summit. Therefore, a “supervolcano” would be a massive fire breathing mountain but, this is not the case. Most of Yellowstone National Park and some of the surrounding area is a “supervolcano”.While some of the largest volcanic eruptions have come from Yellowstone, it is not the only place these “mega-eruptions” have occurred There have been “mega-eruptions” in Indonesia, Chile, New Zealand, Argentina, Japan…

Not only does it increase the temperature of the country, it causes haze which affected vision, health, and death. Half of the fires in Sumatra are occurring on carbon-rich peat lands, contributing to the extremely poor air quality and spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (Minnemeyer, 2015). Some of the fires were also burning inside pulp and paper and oil palm concessions, others…

Illicit animal trade has caused controversy throughout the international community, as it has led species to near extinction. Illicit animal trade is the intent of selling or trading wildlife throughout the international community. The most endangered and valued traded animals include the Asian and African elephant, Rhino, Pangolin, and tigers. These animals are being poached and killed in the hotspots of Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern border of the EU, South-East Asia, Mexico, Caribbean,…

MNC or Multi National Corporations have branches in other countries and the head office , which is centralised and coordinates global management, is usually located in the home country the company was founded. Some characteristics that MNCs include will be that it involves a large scale of business , Productive organization, ability to transfer technology and evolves in high efficiency.Examples of MNCs include Nike,Cotton on, Mac Donalds & Apple. LDC stands for Less Developed Countries . LDC is…

The Effect of Halal Label, Halal Awareness and Brand Image on Consumer Intention to Buy Abstract Halal Label is the writings or statements are halal on the product packaging that shows the status of products is halal. Halal awareness is the knowledge of the purpose and the benefits of consuming and using the halal product. Brand Image is a collection of associations that have been formed customer perception for certain brand. Intention to buy as the statement related to the mental condition…

The Argumentative Idea on Race Classification The concept of race and when and where it first arose has been attempted to be explained by many philosophers over a multitude of centuries. However, the question still remains upon the abstraction of whom planted the initial idea. In the novel The Idea of Race, edited by Robert Bernasconi and Tommy L. Lott, Bernasconi and Lott have combined a slew of essays written by different philosophies on the phenomenon of race. Four major philosophers who…