Sumatra

until you reached the Indus valley. When you arrived at Delhi you started working there, for 10 years while travelling around India. You then followed the Malabar coast until you arrived at the Maldive islands, you went to Ceylon and from there to Sumatra until you reached China. Then, you returned to Tangier and stayed there for a few days. Suddenly you made a visit to Al-Andalus, and after that you went to some southwest regions in…

INTRODUCTION Orangutans, who are closest to our specie of homo sapiens¸ alongside the chimpanzees, gorillas and the other great apes – are primarily and wildly native to the forests and islands of Indonesia and Malaysia. Their chances of survival in modern day is critically endangered by both human causes (primarily) and natural causes (most of which chiefly arises out of human causes as well). The former includes aspects like deforestation, palm oil plantation and illegal logging; whereas the…

South Africa, Egypt, India, Sudan, China, Canada, Australia, Malaya, Burma, British Guiana, and British Honduras. The United States had control of the Philippines, Samoa, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Sumatra, and Java, Borneo. Accordingly, France had control of Algeria, French West Africa, Tunisia, Vietnam, and French…

people used trade routes for bulk trading. The Network extended from the coast of East Africa, to Arabia, to the Persian Gulf, India, across to Burma, down through the Malacca Strait that runs between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. For thousand of years the Indian Ocean has provided a fast and relatively safe route for traders to make their way from place to place, all previously stated facts being written from Ocean…

parents are very proud of my sister obtaining her medical degree. Then there was me, I got C’s and B’s in my first year in college and I had no direction in my life as a business major. When I had the opportunity to trek through the lust rainforest of Sumatra, I know instantly I wanted to work in the environment. Our tour guide told us the severity of how endangered these ecosystems were due to palm oil production. Though first griming, our tour guide also told us of success stories of orangutan…

A Whole Year Vacation My pleasure to introduce myself first before I’m going to tell my memorable experience I’ve ever had in 2013. I’m Adinda Siti Khoirunnisa, but just call me Adinda. Now, let’s begin my trip begin! In December 28th, my family and I had planned our family vacation in some places for 1 year. In January we were going to Singapore for 2 weeks. In the middle of February, we were going to Bandung for 2 times in last 2 weekend of February. At March, we were going to Surabaya for 10…

In Aceh, for example, a province in North Sumatra where the sharia has recently been fully applicable, a growing, more organized anti-Western sentiment has galvanized Islam fundamentalism, denouncing the Westernization of the country especially in the wake of September 11th, and the US attacks on…

Dwight Holing Dwight Holing’s career as an author had a pretty unpromising start. Asked to write this essay during the third grade, he handed this story in called “Bloody Murder” and he used red ink for the title. Clever, if not a snare, yeah? Well, his teacher didn’t agree, and gave it an F. Not all was lost, though. He learned his very first lesson about irony: she used a red pen as well. He spent his summers in college working at the salmon fishery in Alaska. By the end of the season, he…

There is something about volcanoes that genuinely terrifies people all around the world. Though the dangerous landforms have the power to destroy a civilization and force many to restart their lives over, many only know what they see. Do volcanoes have the power to cause destruction, terror, and earthquakes? Yes, but these landforms do so much more than that. Volcanoes have the power to create new landforms, fertilize soil, create minerals and stones, and contribute to global cooling. Stromboli,…

Sidebar: The largest tsunami wave ever recorded happened in 1958. An earthquake triggered a massive rockslide on the shore of Lituya Bay in southeast Alaska. Almost forty million tons of rocks splashed into bay. The sudden impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the other shoreline, flooding the area. The local tsunami traveled down the length of the bay and into the Gulf of Alaska, taking millions of trees as it blasted through the water. The wave reached a run-up height of 1,720 feet.…