Essays on Greenland

Greenland’s Arctic Paradise is the world’s largest most protected natural park, and it is a home to an incredible range of game animals and many spectacular sceneries. In an expedition cruise, one can experience the untouched natural environment and observe giant walruses with powerful tusks as well as the polar bear, which is the most famous predator on earth. To visit this game reserve, one must acquire a permit from the Ministry of Nature and Environment. In essence, this natural resource has various economic benefits to Greenland because visitors have to get permits to access the park. ...

A general move to broaden the security agenda occurred during the 1980s by expanding the focus from the security of the state or the nation to an alternative focus on the security of the people, or the global collective. The human security can be affected by economic welfare, environmental concerns, cultural identity, political rights, and military issues. In recent years, environmental degradation is increasingly being considered as a security problem by not just the environmental activists but also the security establishment as they have become more responsive to the idea. In late 1989, the journal of the International Institute ...

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Although the United States of America became an independent country not so long ago there was a long history that preceded the mentioned event that happened in 1776. In this paper the history of the pre-independent USA will be explored. It is believed that the indigenous people have been coming to America from Asia for thousands of years in the gap between 15 and 50 thousand years ago, when the modern Bering Strait did not yet exist and the two continents were connected with land. Reliable evidence of their presence in the United States was received throughF the findings ...

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings by Dale Mackenzie Brown.

In 1721, Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary discovered that the Norse were no longer inhabiting the two settlements that they had established around 1000 A.D. Since then there has been many debates on the cause of their disappearance and decline. For long, the theories about their disappearance centered around the oral traditions of the Inuits. The Inuit tradition held that the demise of the Norse was due to the contact between the Inuit and the Norse which was often aggressive (Seaver 1996, 119). In recent years however, owing to expanding archaeological findings and other limited documentary evidence there have ...

On March 28, 2016, National Geographic published an online article about the increased risk of earthquakes and its correlation with the human activities (Gilman, 2016). Most people believe that earthquakes are natural hazards caused by tectonic plate movement, but the article written by Sarah Gilman shows that earthquakes in Oklahoma region including some parts of Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Arkansas are human-induced. The article talks about the oil industry’s impact on the increased risk of earthquakes in the area, and this impact is mostly caused by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling. Gilman shows that there ...