Ocean Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

The Powerful Ocean

The Powerful Ocean
A great disorder Tsunami is composed of two words from Japanese namely "Kanji" and "harbor" meaning waves. It is the series of the water waves caused due to the dislocation of large volume of water. The wavelength of these waves is longer than the normal waves called rising tidal. The period ranges from minutes to hours called wave train. There are many reasons for this disorder to occur as landslides, volcanic eruption, Earthquake, underwater explosions and due to the disturbances above or below the water in the oceans. On entering into shallow water, their velocity ...

Plate Tectonic Theory

The continental drift theory stated that the world was formed of a single continent that separated and drifted apart to form 7 continents that exist today. According to Alfred Wegner, a German meteorologist, the continents were comprised of light rocks that rested on heavy crustal material. According to Wegner, the continents were previously a single large continent that broke apart and drifted along the floor of the ocean up to wear the continents are located today. While Wegner used the fit of the 2 continents that had already been mentioned, he also used lithological similarity and fossil distribution as evidence.
Wegner’ ...

Circus industry is one of those that are constantly under pressure due to the changing consumer behavior and trends associated with the industry. Even though, the circus industry has trembled for quite a long time, Cirque was able to enhance its profits along with its revenues in 20 years; a profit that older world leading circus took a century to attain. In order to attain such impressive and remarkable revenues, Cirque focused on creating an uncontested market space and aimed towards the audience that were noncustomers of the industry. This was the major advantage of the Cirque which allowed the circus to ...

Southern New England is an area located in the Northeastern corner of the US. The title New England came from the region being the earliest English settlement in the United States of America (Dean, 2012). This region is extremely rich of natural resources. Therefore, the region may be a hub for tourism if necessary measures are undertaken.
This region is rich of marine natural resources. The marine wealth of the region includes fish, whales, beaches and an ocean (Dean, 2012). Marine wildlife is one of the main tourists’ attraction sites in any country. Like other regions in Costa Rica, ...

Introduction

The Blue Ocean strategy reconstructs established models of development, such as the widely used Porter's five forces model. Renee Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim specify two forms of markets wherein economic actors work-- the red and blue oceans. The 'red oceans' pertain to markets that are crowded or saturated. Red oceans are current, established markets. Growth opportunities are limited due to the fact that a large number of economic actors are involved, aggressively trying to expand their position in the market (Kim & Mauborgne, 2015). 'Red' denotes the cutthroat competition, as well as the purchasing consultant, customers, and suppliers who ...

Introduction

Disruptive innovation involves the whole process of creating new markets for an array of products. The idea of disruptive innovation is best explained by Christensen, C. M. (2003) as the creation of new value networks and markets, something that would cause disruptions in the existing market. Disruptive technology has created a competitive advantage for many business organizations, where a new and more superior product or service is introduced to the market. This knocks out the competitors since the products or services do not exist on the general market. Superior goods and services would, therefore, force the general existing market prices to ...

Discussion Questions appending to Nespresso Business Market Strategic Management.

Question #1 – Business Background, Definition, Role and Scope
The scope of business definition extends beyond Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in theory, or celebrity endorsements. The strategically-priced encapsulated Nespresso coffee, for machines development, capitalizes on an emotional goods category. According to a report by Conley, Bican, and Ernst (2013) the 1986 Nestlé of Switzerland launch segmented a role for coffee-enjoyers to receive premium product in hermetically sealed pouches filled beforehand. The concept underlying the performance of the unit, boosted by a fancy international campaign dangling the face of movie star, George Clooney, thus by accomplishing a move away from the ...

On March 10, 1957, Osama Bin Muhammad Bin Awad Bin Laden was born. He is better known today as Osama Bin Laden. He began his years of life living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His birth father was Muhammad Awad Bin Laden, and his birth mother was Alia Ghanem. Alia was originally from Syria when she married Osama’s father.
Osama was the 17th child born to his father out of 57 kids. He was the only child of his father and his mother. Muhammad had nine other wives before Alia. His father was born a Yemeni settler who lived ...

Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi” is a story jeweled with lofty ideologies about religion, faith and morality. Martel institutes the character of Pi, providing a rich context of character progression through his tumultuous experiences at the ocean developing him to be morally intact and mature. Pi’s extraordinary story highlights his inner struggles to stay sane and morally intact, making him victorious and become a fully developed man afterwards. The experiences of Pi in the sea with a Bengal man-eating tiger is no joke. In fact, his extreme experiences test his sanity and faith as he battles for survival. Pi experiences the ...

Whenever I think about climate change, my understanding is more ideological and economic. In the New York Times Article by Justin Gills, “U.N. Climate Panel Endorses Ceiling on Global Emissions”. The U.N climate panel recently endorsed an upper limit on greenhouse gases, which establishes a target level which people must stop these emissions or face dire climatic changes. The target level established was predicted to be exceeded in relatively short time if measures were not taken to curb emissions. Human related activity was cited as the leading cause of Global warming. The climate panel endorsed a “carbon budget” for humanity. This ...

Throughout the history of Europe, Africa and Asia there had been Empires. These included the Roman, Akkadian, Babylonian, Greek, Shang, Persian, Holy Roman, Bulgarian, Byzantine and Russian Empire along with many more. While Africa, Asia and Europe went through many Empires, South America only had three, the Aztec, Inca and Mayan before the arrival of the Europeans. This paper will look at the effect of Europe’s need to increase their empire on the New World.
The first European arrivals to the New World were the Spanish, who decided to expand their empire into the Caribbean after Columbus had ...

The Atlantic Revolutions were a wave of social breakthroughs taking place between the 1770s and the 1820s in the Atlantic World, empires having the access to the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Revolutions stroke Europe as well as South and North America, mainly influencing the social life in the United States, France and French-controlled Europe, Spanish America. Smaller revolutionary acts arose in Switzerland, Brazil, and Russia. Being the strong push factor The Atlantic Revolutions gave a start to the independence movements in the New World, which began with the American Revolution in 1775–1783 and finished with gaining independence by ...

Identifying Environmental Hazards

Identifying Environmental Hazards

The study is designed to determine whether there is increases or decreases in the population of invasive species as well as ascertain the implications associated with the alteration of the population of the invasive species to the ecosystem as a whole.

Introduction

Today, due to factors such as foreign travel, globalization, the increase in human population, and uncontrolled development patterns, the frequency and magnitude of introductions of non-native invasive species (NNIS) into native lands has grown at an alarming rate (Mooney & Cleland, 2001). Invasive species pose serious risks to the native ecosystems, threatening to change not only ...

These articles are pieces of the same animal and they fit together because they face the same problem from different angles and points of view. The main topic is about people who are willing to learn, but they are not capable of seeing the whole picture. However, if people divide their work and form a team, then they might be to clearly see to complete picture once they put their experiences together.
In the poem “Blind Men and the Elephant”, six men are trying to figure out what an elephant looks like. They are blind and they are touching ...

The Columbian Exchange, coined by Alfred Crosby in 1986, refers to the massive movement from the Old World to the New World and back, of crops, animals, and diseases after the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 (Grennes 2007, p. 91). The meeting of the Old and the New World drastically changed the fortunes not only of the natives inhabiting the newly discovered continents, but also of the European settlers and Europe as a whole. New species of animals were introduced to the Americas that helped in farming and transportation. On the other hand, new species ...

In simple words, the tragedy of commons could be described as individuals working for self-interest and ignoring the needs of society. For example, there is a meadow that is utilized by the farmers of the countryside. The meadow can serve 20 cows in any season. If a farmer increases his number of cows from 2 to 10, this will put negative effect on other 18 cows as their resources will be over utilized. The farmer being aware of this situation does not think about the well being of all the farmers or cows, but only protects his personal interest. After some ...

“Our Lonely Home in Nature” by Alan Lightman

“The New York Times”, May 2, 2014
A critical review of : “ Our Lonely Home in Nature”
We will carry out a critical review of the article “Our Lonely Home in Nature” written by Alan Lightman who is a physicist and teaches humanities at the M.I.T. This article was published in the New York Times, opinion pages on 2 May 2014 and is scheduled for republishing in today (May 23, 2014) edition too.
In the article, Lightman starts with a seemingly innocuous statement of the tornadoes in the South and the Midwest. He describes how the sea (or symbolically ...

Abstract

Mamluk history is divided into two periods based on different dynastic lines: the Bahri Mamluks of Qipchaq Turkic, and the Burji Mamluks of Caucasian Circassian origin. After receiving instruction in Arabic, the fundamentals of Islam, and the art of warfare, slaves in the royal barracks were manumitted and given responsibilities in the Mamluk hierarchy. The following is a brief discussion of the rise and fall of the dynasty of these slave warriors.

Introduction

The Mamluks, originally bands of slave warriors, were the rulers Egypt and Syria from the year 1250 until 1517 AD; their dynasty brought down by the Ottomans after. ...

The growth of the American urban centers dates back to the colonial period. Urban cultures have emerged since the early nineteenth Century to the modern cities. Boston was among the first cities to develop, from its trading advantage over other cities such as New York and Philadelphia. The three distinct periods in the history of the development of American cities are the provincial, commercial, and industrial periods. ‘The first was a provincial period, which lasted from the foundation of Manhattan down to the opening up of ocean commerce after the War of 1812, This was followed by a commercial period, which ...

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Introduction
Among the oldest forms of heritage that every community, country or society boasts to possess as the oldest form of culture and tradition that it has maintained over centuries include art and architecture. One of the most essential things to note concerning art and architecture is the fact that every community and society has its own unique and authentic designs, which were developed centuries ago, with inspiration drawn from different sources, such as the indigenous people’s ways of life, as well as other close-knit and personal aspects and reasons, such as the artistic skill, talent and ...

List the three nutrient cycles present in an ecosystem.

Nutrient cycles are also called as biogeochemical cycles as they help convert the elemental form of essential minerals into biochemical form for utilization by living organisms. The three important nutrient cycles of the ecosystem are the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the phosphorous cycle.
Nitrogen has a vast atmospheric abundance but is not present in a useable form for many organisms. Nitrogen fixers convert nitrogen into ammonium and nitrates to be taken up by plants and passed onto animals.
Phosphorous is the integral part of the building blocks of nucleic acids, ATP and lipids that make up the ...

Introduction

In recent years, the term social corporate responsibility (CSR) has captured the minds of many people. It refers to the activities of corporations in giving back to the society. However, as CSR is being integrated into organizations, the debate on its concepts intensifies. As viewed in different studies, CSR is concerned about legal obligations of companies, which are directed towards the both the environment and society. Because of this fact, there are a number of measures, which are implemented to create an environment that is adaptive to enterprises (European Union, 2011).
As indicated in the European Union (2011) website, ...

Arenas Del Mar is an extraordinary beachfront resort located at the beaches of Manuel Antonio. The hotel itself has total 38 rooms, 16 apartments, 2 garden view suites, and 4 ocean view suites (Sheldon, 2007). The 16 apartments can be used as either superior and suite rooms or apartment. All the rooms have flat screen TVs, have king beds, AC, ceiling fans, great ocean views, and huge bathrooms (Kleynhans, 2006). The suites also have a luxurious balcony with a Jacuzzi and a sitting room with sofa sleeper. There is also a pool at the restaurant/reception area and several others by Playitas. The hotel ...