Environment Essays

With an increase in industrial development and population growing at an alarming rate, waste and for that matter waste disposal, is becoming a growing problem worldwide. This constitutes a major problem especially for most countries in the developing world as a result of inadequate mechanisms for the proper disposing of wastes. According to Narayana (2008), […]

When determining and discussing the question “how adoption and twin studies have influenced the nature versus nurture debate” it is important to identify the key terms. The nature versus nurture debate is an ongoing debate focusing on how much our environment (nurture) and our genes (nature) affect us as human beings. Twin studies (studies involving […]

K-Feldspar, which is also called Potassium Feldspar or orthoclase, is the main mineral in the Earth’s crust, making up approximately 60% (Feldspar). It comes from magma in both extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks as well as metamorphic rocks (wisconsingeologicalsurvey.org). These rocks are created at various depths and temperatures. K-Feldspar can also be discovered in certain […]

During the industrial revolution, many amazing inventions arose and because of them the world changed. Some of these inventions affected the world in a positive way and solved many problems. Yet other inventions were the cause of misery to the entire human kind. What about an invention that caused both joy and misery? It’s an […]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772. His father, a clergyman, moved his family to London when Coleridge was young, and it was there that Coleridge attended school. Coleridge became the poet of imagination, exploring the relationships between nature and the mind as it exists as a separate entity. Poems such as “The […]

In my opinion, I would choose Manzu Highlands because I like it. Besides, I will appreciate our nature with my family. The place is very suitable to relax and stare at our nature, keeping us away from the hustle and bustle of the town. At the highlands, I can get fresh air because it is […]

Thinking about the subjective nature of language, communication reflects cultural values and perspectives. It also creates or reproduces culture by naming and normalizing practices valued by the culture. We develop an appreciation for how people of different generations and cultures have viewed each of these different words and their meanings. Some women may find the […]

Protists are known to be the very first eukaryotic organisms on earth. The Kingdom Protista was first classified by Haeckel in the year 1866. Now, there are many known species of protists. After learning about protists in class, the group decided to observe the different species of protists found in pond water. The group prepared […]

Continental drift is the idea that continents move freely over Earth’s surface, changing their positions relative to one another over time. This hypothesis has been around for more than 130 years. It’s amazing to know that once ago these continents on Earth were once joined together and have split and moved apart from one another. […]

Nepal is often jostled up amongst the facts and myths when it comes to hydro- electric power generation. There are facts that relate it to one of the richest countries in the world when it comes to resources. Then there is a myth, for a nation with such bountiful resources would have never been deprived […]

Wallace Stevens wrote Anecdote of a Jar in 1919 when Modernism was in its early stages. In this movement, individuals were encouraged to explore change. Since there was so much change going on in the world, people were concerned with the relationship between society and all of its new innovations and the natural world. This […]

Reading Jen Sheng: The Root of Life was a pleasant surprise for me. The novel kept me engaged with its romantic undertones. It follows the journey of a Russian scientist in search of meaning, leading him to the Siberian mountains. There, he forms a close bond with Lu Wen, a wise Chinese man. Lu Wen […]

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is located in Morong, Bataan and was constructed under the administration of President Ferdinand Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law period. Westinghouse was contracted to build the light water reactor, deign to produce 621 megawatts of electricity. This power plant was constructed under loan $600 million for two units […]

1. SME is in fact a plant made product (emulsion matrix) which need only to be sensitized by entrapment of gas bubbles either by, chemical gassing or addition of substantial quantity of porous ammonium nitrate (AN) prills, to form explosive. 2. SMS is truly a Site Mixed Slurry explosive in the sense that all intermediate […]

PTT is currently ranked No. 95 among the world’s largest 500 companies (based on the 2011 performance), up from No. 128th in 2011, with sale revenues of 2,428,165 million Baht, or a jump by 529,483 million Baht or 27. 9 percent from 2010. Furthermore, PTT, having successfully been assessed by the SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment […]

Effect of Temperature For some substances to dissolve in a given solvent, heat is absorbed. The reaction is endothermic. In this case, an increase in temperature increases solubility. For some substances, heat is released when they dissolve in a given solvent. The reaction is called exothermic. In this case, an increase in temperature decreases solubility. […]

In his book, first published in 2009, ‘Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age’, Gregg Braden gave wonderful clues into what we would expect to occur in our world and universe by the year 2012. Though years have passed since the first publication of the book, the information in the book […]

In the poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, by Sara Teasdale, an initial interpretation may be based on the knowledge that it fits into the post-apocalyptic/dystopian genre. To truly appreciate and understand a literary work, one must attempt to interpret it in many different ways. As a secondary interpretation, one may understand the poem to […]

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Building Authority recently closed the old coal power plant located next to campus center way (Main Campus). The closure was necessary as this power plant, which had been UMass’s sole energy source for many years, became obsolete after it was supposed to be replaced in the early 1970s by the […]

Delaney Mossbacher; an individual who resides in the rural outskirts of Los Angeles, yet was raised in the upper-class, high-scaled city of Peekskill, New York, is a Liberal Humanist, an environmentalist, a nature columnist, a materialistic narcissist, and a hypocritical racist. He, who is a highly egotistical person, lives and strives for just two motives […]

Mineral occurrence in igneous rock is most simply explained by Bowen’s reaction series. Norman Levi Bowen discovered the series of reactions while studying the process of crystallizing minerals in Washington, D. C. in 1928. In order to best express his findings to his scientific brethren, Bowen created a visual display based on when and under […]

Energy workers are a part of the huge network of people that make our country as great as it is today. Even Jeff Landry himself a member of congress said “the most valuable resource in the gulf of Mexico is not the oil and gas under the waters; it is the men and women willing […]