Tropics

Enjoy a holiday break at one of these Florida Beaches With over 1,000 miles of beaches lining the Florida coastline, it’s no mystery why Florida has become one of the top holiday destinations for travelers. From the Northern region to the Southern region of the state, there is no other destination that offers so much diversity. Amelia Island, situated on the Northeastern corner of Florida abounds with Southern charm. First time visitors to the region will discover 13 miles of rolling dunes,…

latitude and longitude. For example, people who are from the North and South tend to have more pale skin because the sun doesn’t hit there as much. But, people from East to West have much more of a darker skin color. People who live in between the tropics have much more of a darker skin color because sometimes when we create too much vitamin D it is bad. This ties in with the development of culture and societies because groups of people who share a geographic region tend to have a culture from…

For more than four decades, coconut oil has had a bad reputation because of its high content in saturated fat. Yet, for thousands of years coconut has been a main part of the islanders' diet in the Tropics and still remains so today. Studies also show lower levels of heart disease and obesity among these populations as well. So why was coconut oil shunned for all of these years? In the 70's and 80's inaccurate studies were done that led to the conclusion that coconut oil was way too high in…

other people who will be present. This is a forest that has emulated the Ituri forest in Africa and as such I will see how African forests look like. I will be able to see many animals in this forest. I will see the gorillas when I visit the gorilla tropics. This will be an important site as seven special gorillas form the western region. I will also visit the Tiger River. This river has clear…

Often referred to as the beatniks, a parody of the USSR’s “Sputnik” (Enck), the Beat Generation stands in stark contrast to 1950’s American culture. With the rapid emergence of a post-WWII society - suburbs and consumerism, traditional family values and an exclusion of the extreme - entered the authors who rejected it. Their ideology, shocking to those of their time, ultimately led to the creation of a nation-wide literary movement. The roots of this movement took place during 1944 near Columbia…

Aldous Huxley foreshadows the dangers of communal identity and conformist behavior in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley creates an experiment within the World State, controlling factors such as birth in a test tube, predestined factions, color of clothes, sanitation and the rationing of soma. He casts his characters as the variables in the experiment, utilizing the outsider John, the neglected Bernard, and the indoctrinated Lenina to examine their responses to the World State. As every…

lagoon. Barriers and atolls are some of the oldest habitats in the ocean. Coral reefs are found in over a hundred countries. Most are found between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, in the Indian and Pacific Ocean, Red Sea, Caribbean Sea and the Persian Gulf. They are also found farther from the equator, where warm currents flow out of the tropics like Southern Japan or Florida. They cover about 110,000 square miles. The largest is the Great Barrier Reef which is in Australia. The second…

Geography also affects the ability to grow crops because the region could be too elevated, mountainous, or rocky to grow crops or the climate could be too wet or too dry. Papua New Guinea is located in the tropics in the South Pacific and the region is very wet. There are few native plants around the island nation that are edible or can be domesticated. The primary food source in the region is the sago tree. The sago tree poses multiple challenges as it is…

Hookworms are small and short worms. They live in the small intestines of man. They are called hookworms because each of them has hooks on its head around the mouth. The worm attaches itself to the inside wall of the intestine by these hooks. Hookworms feed on blood. They suck this from the wall of the intestine to which they are attached. There are often several hookworms at the same time in the child's tummy. All of them feed on the blood of the child. Therefore, one of the major effects of…

development of the embryos and change what is needed to create the ideal person. "Heat conditioning....hot tunnels alternated with cool tunnels.coolness was wedded to discomfort in the form of hard x-rays.....They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics."(pg.14-15) Scientists change temperatures, which in return, condition them to work more efficiently in specific environments in addition to that, the embryos then are raised to hate certain things, such as books and nature to prevent them…