This next chapter really focuses on biodiversity and how having a diverse world is extremely important. Earle states that “if the gene pool is small, the greater vulnerability of life to diseases, storms, and changes in climates”. This is not just true for humans, but for animals as well. The more people fish and the more marine life that goes extinct the smaller the species get which could lead to a lot of diseases which could kill a ton of animals and soon there would not be a mass amount left…
Last year was the hottest year ever recorded in history! The earth’s temperature is getting warmer. We are experiencing many unprecedented storms, landscape transformations, etc. These modifications in our weather patterns must concern us. We must consider this a catastrophic issue. Dangerous heat waves, severe droughts, rising sea levels indicate our need to be cautious. Our world is getting hotter and more unpredictable as the climate affects it. First, we notice the rising temperatures of…
For this part provides the truth of what kind of jobs did Charles Reed Bishop done while he was in Hawaii. This result suggested that Charles Reed Bishop work for the Hawaiian people, he did not wish to obtain profit for himself. To mention what work had he done is important to prove why he called “Man of Hawaii” from local Hawaiian people, even he is American. From Hawaiians, Americans seemed to do “post-colonialism” affairs and most of the Hawaiian people are criticizing these circumstances.…
SeaWorld had a better development plan and strategy. They wanted expansion and oceanic parks nationwide. With their marketing and other Aquariums trying to get in on the orca exhibit, they fueled the fire that was beginning in the oceans and the whaling hunt for…
industry, and her mother stayed at home and took care of the family. My great-grandmother was Italian, and her father had come on a ship from Italy to avoid being put into the army. She married my great-grandpa who’s father came to American on a whaling ship from the Portuguese islands, the Azores. My great-grandmother decided that she liked my great-grandfather because he had a wagon with two black horses. They got married and had three children. My grandma was the youngest. She was born right…
For exercise two I will be comparing and contracting Green Peace verses Population connection. Both the Organizations have several differences, but they have some similarities as well. There are two main differences between the two organizations such as, Mission statement, and the environmental issues they focus on. The first contract between Green Peace and Population connection is their mission statement and what type of organization they are. What is a mission statement, a mission statement…
‘To what extent is social media bad for our psychological wellbeing?’ Merriam-Webster (2015) defines social media as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).” As of 2011, two thirds (65%) of adult Internet users engage in activities on social networking sites (Madden & Zickuhr, 2011); it is even more common (72%) for young…
Conservation Case Study Critically Endangered- Baiji River Dolphin General Information The Baiji River Dolphin also known as the Yangtze River dolphin, white-flag dolphin, or by its scientific name Lipotes vexillifer, is a fresh water dolphin that is critically endangered since 1996 by the IUCN red list. As one of its names constitutes, Baiji dolphins are endemic to the Yangtze River. The Baiji River Dolphin is pale blue/gray and white under. They live approximately for 25 years. These…
Here, Melville works to defamiliarize his readers with the very concept of worship. Notably, Ishmael posits a series of questions, leading readers along by the hand to follow his reasoning in why he should partake in this particular service. His “particular Presbyterian form of worship” works to draw his readers away from something completely familiar—a religion influenced by the Old World—to question their own belief system by positing a new, much more open form of Christianity, which accepts…
Shackleton Case Study: Was He a Successful Leader? Summary In late 1914, the ship Endurance, left the port of South Georgia Island for their final stretch to their South Pole destination. Sir Ernest Shackleton, their illustrious leader, had been at sea before and had even attempted this perilous journey prior to this sailing. Shackleton was starting this journey with renewed vigor as he could sense this would be one of his last chances to accomplish his life-long goal of traversing the southern…