Dredging of the Ala Wai I have had first hand experience with the Ala Wai Canal all through out high school. I was a four-year paddler in high school and we held our practices in the Ala Wai, let me tell you, that canal is pretty nasty. I feel sorry for those people who have to scoop up tha...

It is ironic that the third chapter of the Why Geography Matters starts off about global warming. Since the release of Al Gore's movie and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report on global climate change last week, the topic has become big news. Despite the fact that ...

Yellowstone National Park is the most famous and the first U.S. national park. It' s located on the territory of three states: Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Yellowstone occupies the territory of 3.470 square miles (nearly 9,900 km2) and is mostly located in northwestern part of Wyoming. Yellowst...

Cultural landscape is the true definition of all of the terms to be defined in this paper. The definition of a term is not supposed to contain the same word being defined; however in this case, all five terms can be summed under the main definition of cultural landscape. Given this improper method...

Geography: China is the third largest country in the world, which is slightly larger in area than the Uni Chain is located in Central and East Asia. China is bounded by Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan to the north, North Korea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea to the east, the South China S...

Chris Crutcher's book, Athletic Shorts, is one of the many books that appears on the list of banned or challenged books submitted to library's across the nation for the American Library Association's, National Banned Books Week. The books on this list are deemed as offensive in s...

Osama Bin Laden or how I Did It My Way Now that I am close to Ala, I hear by can state my reasons why I launched the strike against the great Satan (United States). Now that I know that death is near, I will be going to paradise that Ala has promised me for my great act against the evil natio...

Medical ethics tends to be a problematic issue, particularly where certain types of research are concerned. Indeed, some practitioners hold the public good in such high regard that they violate human rights for its sake. Of particular importance here is patient consent. Indeed, this issue is cent...

INTRODUCTION When one wants to know whether the world is becoming more health conscious, one only has to look at the number of health food stores cropping up nationwide. It seems that everywhere one looks, health and fitness are the recurring themes of business. Restaurants have produced "heal...

Letter From Birmingham Jail What rhetorical strategies were applied by Martin Luther King Jr. in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and which of those was likely most important in influencing the readers of that time? In Birmingham, Ala., in the spring of 1963, King's campaign to end segreg...

Mesopotamia is an ancient civilization that was located in modern day Iraq. It was home to many great political, economic, and cultural developments that were influenced by its climate and geography. Such developments include; agriculture, irrigation, Cuneiform, the wheel for transport, as well as; ...

Throughout history, rates at which civilization developed varied greatly from continent to continent. This variance in development can be seen today in almost any country of the world. Take for example, the comparison of the United States (a world super-power), to any less developed, third-worl...

Why Some Children learn faster then others Why do some children learn faster than others do? And why do some children completely misunderstand the material being presented to them? Children learn in different ways and there are certain ways of teaching that help them to learn the best. The scho...

The curriculum framework of history-social science for kindergarten through grade twelve is an effort to strengthen education system by building on the best practices contained within previous frameworks. The revised framework focuses on the chronological study of history. Placed in its ...

Asia contains some of our closest neighbors. In many different areas, Australia has forged strong links with Asia, links which on their current path can only become stronger. Our future now lies with Asia, our closest trading partner. Previously we mainly associated ourselves with Europe, Britain an...

Comparing and contrasting countries can really give you a good sense of knowledge on where a country stands in terms of economics and population. Guatemala is a country that is hard to make assumptions about when you really do not hear very much about it. In this paper I will be comparing and cont...

The United States and Russia have been battling off pernicious factions menacing the stability of their democracies over the years. Russia has come a long way over the past century, enduring a number of different phases that have completely desecrated any power Russia may have had paralleled to t...

The Egyptian Hall at the Carnegie Museum is an excellent way to study ancient Egyptian culture. I was surprised to see all of the interesting facts I could gather about the culture I once knew very little about. The research project for my anthropology class taught me a lot about the history of Egyp...

The rapid development of technology has led to advancements that have had a direct impact on the improvement of our military. Weapons have become more effective and the use of satellite imagery has helped reduce the amount of lives lost during conventional warfare. Although not often contemplated,...

Arizona is a very interesting state. One reason is because of its geography. There are many amazing places of interest. Arizona is also a very religious place. I think that the trivia of Arizona is very informative. Arizona's history is one of the most interesting of all the states. In Arizon...

"In the formative era of Chinese civilization as early as the first millennium b.c. the Chinese thought of the world as all the regions of the heavens, and within the "four seas." They called it Tianxia, which literally means "under heaven." Because this was a universal...

Letters of a Woman Homesteader In Letters of a Woman Homesteader, there are several ideas and themes that are present. Mixed among them are conflict, geography and gender roles but deep within the letters and a word of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, no other theme is more prevalent than that of communit...

In 1394, Prince Henry the Navigator was born into royalty in Porto, Portugal. His parents were the King and Queen of Portugal. At that time, Europe was less developed in marine technology than China. Europe had not reached the advancements in the study of geography of Islamic society. However, after...

Geodemographics is part of demographic segmentation, which is a market segmentation process. Market segmentation is a process of identifying segments of customers within a particular market whose needs and wants differ, so a different marketing mix is applied to each. Demographics include the ident...

Jorge Amadoi¿½s i¿½Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamoni¿½ is a tale of different stories in the township if Ilhi¿½us, which is a province of the larger city of Bahai, situated in the northern Brazil. This is not a long novel, as epics go; but it is easy to place the details of the narrative: the po...