Essays 61 - 90
steadily and peaked in 1941, when then-president Arnulfo Arias was deposed by his own military "over U.S. requests for military si...
of any academic evidence or science-based assertions inherent in early geographical studies. Instead, Sauer argues that this type...
and final voyage to the New World. Archeologists have determined that native civilizations existed in Costa Rica for thousands of ...
as something that can have meaning that is not yet clear. In and of itself, it might not mean much, but combined with other types ...
to torment me anew. Suddenly the air in Rahim Khans little flat was too thick, too hot, too rich with the smell of the street" (H...
altiplano, the foothills of the Andes, where alluvial salt pans give way to lofty white-capped volcanoes that march along the cont...
In five pages this study of India includes a consideration of population, economics, geography, and anti American sentiments. Eig...
as the "Venice of the North" due to its preponderance of canals (PG). Amsterdam, after all, is a city built in, on, and around bod...
The rare fragment that survives and actually lands on earth-that is a meteorite" (pp. 90). Krajick (1999) adds that modern...
were non-English. Hatvaney (1996) quotes a French-American of the time, Jean de Crevecoeur, who remarked, "What is an American? T...
In eight pages this survey includes an examination of Northern Illinois' demographics, geography, environment, and environmental m...
In five pages this paper examines the oceans and tides of the Coastal South in this overview of culture, ecology, and geography. ...
period, the dissolution of the Moroccan state culminated in an unpopular war (PG). The Spanish civil war began in 1936 and did n...
Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...
In three pages this report considers such topics as geography and conflicts over territory as they relate to the colonial history ...
In ten pages this research paper presents a country overview of Kuwait with such subdivisions as its early history, geography, dem...
In nine pages this paper examines the topography and geography of Commonwealth of Independent States the Russian Federation, Azerv...
In six pages this typical suburban U.S. town is examined in a consideration of its municipal demographics including its geography,...
In four pages the Anatidae family species known as mallard is described in terms of breeding, geography, dynamics, eating and othe...
The writer provides an overview of Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, and their geography and geology. The writer argues that the caver...
In six pages this paper examines theory and geography of the Great Lakes with environment and their water sources among the topics...
excluding Canada (Latin America, 1993). Latin America contains 20 republics, complete with 20 different governments inclu...
subject to severe earthquakes and its climate is rather mild; Greece has mild wet winters, but dry hot summers (2001). Achi...
In eight pages the post 1984 changes affecting New Zealand are considered in this overview that includes such topics as history, g...
science from ethics, but as the completion, and almost a verification of it. The moral ideal in political administration is only a...
For instance, the extent to which communities find it easy to travel to other areas for purposes of trade or other cultural exchan...
It was the revenue from the sale of tobacco "that produced the first returns on the investment of the Virginia Company" (Faragher,...
to stop - if not reverse - the damage already created by way of, for example, placing the fabric over a pre-seeded slope where the...
And finally, can the nature of Jerusalem as a "sacred space" for all three faiths "throw any light on the conduct of politicians a...
of recognizing cause and effect. Throughout the history of Buddhism, there were disputes and different sects emerged. The first ...