Expedition Research Papers Samples For Students

The ethics behind the space exploration frenzy has remained persistent for many years now. However, never has space exploration elicited more debate, controversy and calls for abandonment than the days that followed the space shuttle Challenger accident. Seeking to improve its record of sending manned mission to space, the United States, through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), sought to send a crew of seven astronauts to a space expedition whose aim, as it always been, seeking to explore and understand the outer space.

Background Information

The lift off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center was televised ...

In the Philippines, the Army of Liberation was already in control of most of the country by the time 12,000 U.S. troops landed in Manila in August 1898, although as in Cuba most Americans do not remember that a revolution was already underway in these Spanish colonies long before the U.S. became involved in conventional or counterinsurgency operations (Silbey, 2007, p. 215). From the American point of view, it was “a messy unanticipated war” and one that was never popular at home (Linn, 2011, p. 156). President William McKinley had sent the troops to Manila with no clear plan, orders ...

Introduction

Christopher Columbus was an Italian Spain sailor who lived between the year 1451 and 1506. He was a son to a middle-class wool weaver family of Domenico and Susanna Fontanarossa who lived in Genoa Italy. His life as child is not well known and there is no comprehensive information on how he spent his youthful life. However it is said that he got well educated and that he could speak several language fluently. Some of the most important skills he acquired in his early days include the interpretation of classical literature, the work of Marinus, Ptolemy and many others.
Columbus ...

Abstract
Leadership is very important in military in order to win battles. Leadership is the ability to influence people by providing purpose in a course of action, direction and motivation and at the same time operating to achieve the intended mission in order to improve the society.
In military, leadership is a decisive element to achieve battle field success. A good military leader should assist an army in overcoming adversary since leadership is the driving force behind the structural factors that a nation can provide to its military commanders that necessitates the winning battles. A good army leader prepares his ...

Introduction

Tobias Smollett is regarded as one of the most important novelist in the 18th century Great Britain. The 18th century is when the first true novels emerged as a new form of literary expression and Smollett introduced notable works during the era such as the “The Expedition of Humpry Clinker”. The novel follows the epistolary form where a series of documents such as letters were resembled to create the novel. This literary approach was popular during the 18th century where the aforementioned novel by Smollett was published. The objective of this critical analysis is to examine the components of Smollett’s ...

Marco Polo

Introduction
Marco Polo was an Italian merchant traveler who immortalized his travel stories to Central Asia and China by giving an account of his journey in his famous book 'Description of the World' aka Livres des merveilles du monde in French. There are few European travelers who voyaged to China years before Marco Polo but the journey undertaken by Polo was the most remarkable. He spent 24 years of his life travelling in Asia and China, having spent 17 of those years in China alone. Marko Polo served as an inspiration to many subsequent European explorers. Marco Polo's ...

1.0 Introduction

The French and Indian war as is mainly called in USA was a war between the British and their enemies who were the French and their Native Americans allies. The Indian tribes were allied to the French as they were more trusting of the French than the British. But in all this the Indians were very protective of their people’s independence and nothing could deter them from that. This paper will analyze the war focusing on causes of the war, the participation of the Native Americans (Indian tribes), the events of the war, the effects of the war and ...

Throughout the 18th century North American lands were primarily controlled by France, England and Spain. The Spanish king ruled upon Florida, France possessed both central and northern territories and the UK`s authority extended to the East. These countries knew that they would not be able to find a consensus concerning those areas peacefully and that someday the situation would definitely lead to war. The Seven Years' War was meant to show which metropolis would have the control over North America. Each side relied on the power and the might of their colonists as well as for the help ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

Using the Mackinnon Lists Method

Using the Mackinnon Lists Method

Introduction

Review of literature on research studies of the state of ecological conditions directed at conservation of global bird habitats shows the Mackinnon Lists method a pragmatic approach to resolving some of the inherent problematic issues connected to this scientific field of study by eliminating overlapping statistics. Developed for the study of tropical forest bird habitats and populations in 1993, the Mackinnon Lists method uses a mathematical framework the following provides for understanding the benefit of using this method focusing on bird species in global regions including Gallon Jug, Belmopan, Cockscom, and Punta Gorda (Dawson et al, ...

The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab carved from granodiorite, an igneous rock resembling granite. It acquired its name from the area where it was found in the in 1798. The British Museum estimates it originated during the lifetime of King Ptolemy V, around 196 B.C. Etched with Egyptian hieroglyphs, it displays a Greek translation of the king’s Memphis Decree issued at Memphis (British Museum 2014).
Three scripts appear on the stele. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs comprise the upper text, Demotic script occupies the middle portion, and the text finishes in Ancient Greek. The text is essentially the same, translated ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Introduction
The growing concern of the world to global warming can be traced back to pollution. One of the most apparent is water pollution which affects three-fourths of the whole world. The ocean is where most of the human waste, be it intentional or unconsciously, goes. This waste is called marine debris. It does not only include human waste, but also the natural waste occurring in the environment which escalates as the degradation of the bodies of water continues. According to (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2011), marine debris is any persistent solid material that is dumped ...

Georgia, like several other southern states, played a key role in the civil war. Georgia witnessed some of most brutal battles of the civil war. Georgia was used as a center of transportation for the confederacy during the civil war. A huge number of people fought in the civil war from the Georgian side. This paper intends to discuss the role of Georgia in the American civil war along with discussing major battles, events and major participants of the civil war related to Georgia.
The division between union states and confederate states took place on the issue of slavery. Southern ...

Obstacles of Spanish Monarchs during Colonization

The current state of Spain was established by the unification of separate and distinct kingdoms that prospered in the Iberian Peninsula during the 15th century. It emerged through the marriage of Queen Isabelle from the Castile Kingdom and King Ferdinand from Aragon. They initiated the development of the Catholic Monarch and the unification of various territories from the Iberian Peninsula although they separate their institutional identities such as political, social and economic powers. During their expansion and colonization, the Crown of Spain has been one of the most powerful and influential government in the Early Europe. However, it becomes ...

Indigenous Texas history goes beyond the Texan region into the various neighboring states and foreign territory. The Texan history dates back to over 50,000 years ago. In studying the history of Texas, the term Native refers to the inhabitants – indigenous – of the various regions within mainland Texas, the Tasmania area, and the adjacent islands. There have been a number of changes that have taken place over the years. Ancient Texan culture has faded away in most of the regions of the Texan continent due to a number of factors. The main aim of this paper is to look into the ...

The contribution of Alfred Wegener

William C. McCullough
LAIS 370 History of Science
Colorado School of Mines
Abstract
This paper discusses the role of Alfred Wegener in the discovery of the Plates tectonics theory. It is believed that the modern day plate tectonics theory is an advancement of continental drift theory which was discovered by Wegener. The study will seek to explore his efforts and contribution to modern science and how he has helped to shape the world.

Overview

Plate tectonics also known as continental drift theory describes that the earth was at one time many years back a super continent whereby ...

The Republic of Botswana

Located in the Southern Part of Africa and boarders with Zimbabwe, Zambia, South African Republic. The republic gained its independence in 1966 and set Gaborne as a capital city.

The History

The first inhabitants the territory of modern Botswana were hunters and gatherers who spoke Khoisan languages. Ancient people found in the Tsodilo Hills are about to XVIII century BC. In the last few centuries BC. some tribes in the north began to deal with animals, using a relatively fertile pasture land around the Okavango Delta and Lake Makgadikgadi (Britannica 6).
Since about 1095 began the spread of culture Moritsane related southeastern ...

Introduction

The War of 1812 was fought between United States of America and United Kingdom of Great Britain in the year 1812. Due to its huge significance in the American history, this war is also known as the second American war for liberty. The war is not only important for the United States of America only but it substantially affected England and Canada in the coming years. This paper intends to discuss the war of 1812 along with several related aspects and further discusses the factors which turned out to be the turning points of the war.

Background

On probing the ...