Tropics

The Western World, North and South America Columbus’s discovery launched an Age of Exploration, where every European power wanted a piece of the New World. Shorty after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, in 1492, many Europeans also started the strenuous expedition. One of which was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who constituted an entirely separate journey to this second super continent, came to be named "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of…

The Amazon Rainforest is located in 9 different countries, but more than half of it (around 60%) is located in Brazil. The rest of the 40% can be found in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Image: Map of the Amazon Rainforest. Unique characteristics: The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests, in the Congo Basin and Indonesia, combined. The Amazon River is by far, the world's largest river by…

hurricanes because it releases the latent heat of condensation when it condenses to form clouds and rain, warming the surrounding air. Hurricanes mostly always travel pole ward at the end of their life cycle, helping to transport excess heat out of the tropics toward higher latitudes. A tropical cyclone is another name for hurricane but many people use the word…

sprinkled across the globe. Collectively, fireflies stretch from Tierra del Fuego at 55° south latitude to Sweden at 55° north latitude, gracing every continent save Antarctica. As is true for most liv- ing things, firefly diversity rises in the tropics, peaking in tropical Asia and South America: Brazil alone hosts 350 different firefly species. There are more than 120 recognized firefly species in North America; here the greatest diversity occurs in the southeastern United States,…

By way of contrast, in postmodernism a lot of aspects of life are shown as constructs of society. Manzanar for example, relied on highways and heavy traffic from the inner city to help him “conduct” the congested streets of Los Angeles (53). The novel also included a map of the city, which also created a feeling of uncertainty since the maps were destined to change; unexpected, sudden changes that often times lead you to a dead-end-road. What is more important, is that the maps also had “layers”…

America is an evolving place as ever but this casting against that author's intention or if you change the authors casting choice can lead to the authenticity and themes of the play to be ineffective or completely changed beyond their original intent. Some suggest a perfect way to open further roles for actors and people of color is: What I am probing is the possibility of detaching role-characteristics from actor-characteristics. I am not arguing that Juliet’s gender or age or Othello’s color,…

able to govern their own country. European imperialism also took economic control over Africans trade, resources, and over the people by making them work. “Modern progressive nations lying the temperate zone seek to control garden spots’ in the tropics. (Mainly in Africa, Latin America, and Asia) under (the progressive nations) direction, these places can yield tropical produce” (Doc 1). The progressive nations are the Europeans who are taking advantage of the Africans.…

In the prologue of the book, Guns Germs and Steel, written by Jared Diamond, there is a discussion about a simple, yet difficult question asked by a politician named Yali. According to Yali, “Why is that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” It is questioned as to why nations develop differently even though everything developed together at the same time. It is true that there are major differences between many…

Climate scientists agree the main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions. Created when sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface, it can either be absorbed by the Earth or reflected back into space. The planet releases some of the energy back into the atmosphere when the rest is absorbed as heat. These gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor: absorb the energy, decelerating or inhibiting the loss of heat back into space. Therefore the gases acting like a blanket, causing the…

with monster squid. A bull grows about the ocean's abundance until it is about 30 years old when it reaches full sexual maturity. By this time its l3-20m long - much bigger than a female. At particular times from the year mature bulls head for the tropics, occasionally migrating several thousand kilometres in search of females. The sperm whale has two titchy cousins. The pygmy sperm whale, up to 4m long, seems to live in oceanic waters while the dwarf sperm whale, less than 3m lengthy, inhabits…