Taiga

Kiyomori of Taira clan is a character that is not just consequential in the Tale of Heike, but he also plays a very fundamental role in the Japanese tale and mythology as well. The character storyline has become popular over the years and a recent taiga drama that tell the tale of Taira no Kiyomori was just released in 2012. Taira no Kiyomori was the first samurai in history…

Forensic science, known as forensics, is the application of science to law by analyzing DNA for legal evidence. DNA profiling is the predominant application and forensic science, DNA profiling allows us to take more than one sample of an unknown DNA specimen and determine if it has the same genetic match. Moreover, DNA profiling is to help determine and solve crime scenes such as murders, assaults, and rapes. The technique used for analyzing DNA is restriction fragment length polymorphism…

Nelson Mandela who was a president of South Africa said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” This quote describes that how important education is. In fact, people of extraordinary intellectual, such as Nobel-Prize winners contribute to their organizations and home country. Because of its importance, each country has own educational system, and they try to produce more well-educated people to the world. America is now recognized that one of the primary…

The novel, Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a riveting, cautionary tale about the death of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarks on a journey to Alaska to seek the truth of happiness through the solitude of nature and free himself from the constraints of society. No doubt, the ongoing theme throughout Krakauer’s novel is the dysfunctional father-son relationship between Chris and his dad. In fact, McCandless died before he had the chance to grow out of his anger. Into the Wild…

General Geography of the Valley Yosemite National Park is one of the most renowned places to visit. A spectacular part of Yosemite National Park includes Yosemite Valley, which is full of geological, ecological and human history as well as many breathtaking views. It is located in the western Sierra Nevada Mountains, and has a relatively cold climate with a generous amount of precipitation. Also, there is a variety of vegetation in Yosemite Valley, and many physical features. Yosemite Valley…

feeds streams and trees bringing everything from salmon to bald eagles. “While Minnesota was busy bragging about 10,000 lakes, Alaska stopped counting after 2 million.”(Fodor’s 46) The interior forest region has deeper soil but 75 percent of it is taiga with many patches of permafrost. Trees are mostly all broadleaf trees which include birch and…

The Lion King was set in the African savannah, where the food chains were vast. The king of the “pride lands” was Mufassa. He was the head lion of the pride of mostly female lionesses. Mufassa’s brother, Scar was greedy and selfish. The pack lived on pride rock, a habitat that provided shelter and way for the exponential growth of the population of lions. At the beginning of the movie, Sarabi bore a child for Mufasa and named him Simba. Simba was next in line in the hierarchy of ancestor lions.…

oxen, and ptarmigan. There are two varieties of tundra, the arctic and the alpine tundra. The arctic tundra is located in the part of the world that is above the equator, surrounding the North Pole and continuing to the coniferous forests of the taiga. The arctic tundra is treeless because, directional-wise, it is beyond the limit of tolerance in tree growth. It is too far up north. The arctic tundra is known for its low temperature and its conditions similar to the desert. The mean winter…

A terrestrial ecosystem is an ecosystem found only on land. There were six primary terrestrial ecosystems which are tundra, taiga, temperate broadleaf forest, tropical rain forest, grassland and desert. Terrestrial environments are segmented into a subterranean portion from which most water and ions are obtained. An atmospheric portion from which gases are obtained and the physical energy of light is transformed into the organic energy of carbon-carbon bonds through the process of…

Overpopulation occurs if the number of people in a group exceeds the carrying capacity of the region occupied by that group. According to Grondona, one of the fundamental questions occurring when thinking about high fertility rates is. “Is an even-increasing population desirable? Is there a limit imposed by environmental carrying capacity?” (Grondona).Nowadays overpopulation is considered to be one of the hotly discussed environmental issues, due to its possible negative outcomes. Many scientist…