Essays on Nile

Kamal Hussein’s Thartharah fawqa al-Nil (Adrift on the Nile, 1971) is the film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film was released in 1971, four years after the Six-day War and a year after the death of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt and the man behind the Revolution of 1952. The movie stars some of the most iconic actors of the time including Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Ramz and Adel Adham. The film focusses primarily on the protagonist Anis, a civil servant, and his experiences with a group of men who have created ...

Introduction

The civilization that took place in Ancient Egypt is widely known for its great achievements in various fields such as statecraft, engineering, architecture, and medicine. The large and marvelous buildings found along the banks of the Nile River still leave people at awe despite their old age. The civilization of the region is partly attributed to the unification of the Egyptians under one ruler in different sections of the Nile Valley. Empire building gave the ancient individuals a sense of stability and organization that allowed them to focus on civilized practices and behaviors. The ancient Egyptians emerged as one ...

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YOURSCHOOLHERE “How long can a human being survive without water?” That seems like a simple question. Packer (2002) points out that this seemingly simple question is not simple at all. Various factors mean that the answer can be anywhere from a few hours to several days. Regardless, though, one thing is clear. Water is necessary for life. The Earth (capital “E” for our home world) is unique in the solar system with its vast supply of liquid water (Blue Planet, n.d.). Since a human body is 60% water, this is obviously a substance of some importance (The Water In ...

Introduction

On most occasions, historians construct world history according to the emergence of civilizations associated with a particular empire. Egypt is one of the rich areas studied by the scholars to understand how ideas and people came together to formulate civilizations and empires. Imagine a region that is sparsely populated but still fertile and watered by several water sources. Individuals settle in the region and proceed to domesticate the animals and plants. The process of domestication is made possible by migration and riverine territories. As the population rises, so do the needs of the people. The requirements introduce political and ...

After analyzing the monuments of art, handed down to us from a distant era of the ancient Egyptian civilization, we can definitely identify the two main themes in the art of Egypt in the period around the IV millennium BC to 332 BCE. This is the theme of power and the theme of death. The power of the Pharaoh over the borders of Egypt, the Egyptian state supremacy over the neighboring tribes and kingdoms became firmly established. The question was how to combine it with the death, which is the worst thing that awaits man? It is not possible ...

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Micah, Book of Micah 1:1 attributes the authorship to Micah of Moresheth. This was during the time of the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. His visions were particularly directed at Samaria, and Jerusalem. This makes the writings current with the dates of their reigns. Thus, it would be the dates as Jotham (c. 742-735 BC), Ahaz (c. 735-715 BC), and Hezekiah (c. 742-735 BC) Micah is often referred to as the prophet of the poor, as he preached judgment against the people of Jerusalem – the city folk (Mariottini n.p.). Micah falls under the literary genre of prophetic writing. ...

1) Population growth and overpopulation is one of the major problems of every developing country. The factors that influence population growth are: a) Women getting married at early ages lead to a high birth rate. b) Provision of health benefits to children, women and the elderly have contributed to decreased mortality rate, and thus increased birth rate. c) Lack of family planning contributes to increased birth greatly. According to census, The United States population as on June 11, 2016 is 323,747,258 with one birth in every eight seconds, one death in every seconds and one international migrant ...

Egypt and Mesopotamia had cultural contrasts in which some were brought by their location a great some phenomenon such as presences of river Nile. These differences could be traced back in the ancient time. The societal construct signified the cultural differences in the two societies. The Egyptians hand devised a solar calendar to help them correctly predict planting the best planting season. Geographically, the waters of river Nile bordered the land and this substantially regulated the agricultural production and the planting seasons. Therefore, this made it easier to do the planting. The importance of the Nile to Egyptian culture ...

Evolution from Hunting and Gathering to an Agricultural Society

The Neolithic Revolution is also known as the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Data indicate that this began about 12,500 years ago. People formed communities and they developed settlements as they began to domesticate certain species of plants (Tignor, 23). This “revolution” occurred in several places around the world. The earliest revolution occurred in the Fertile Crescent area of Mesopotamia between 10,000 to 8,000 BC, in the Kuk Early Agricultural Site of Melanesia at about 8000 BC, and in Subsaharan Africa at about 2500 BC. One theory that is used to explain this phenomenon is that agriculture was ...

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Thesis Statement: Water and its scarcity will continue to fuel conflicts among nations. Water will become a potential flashpoint for future regional and possibly global conflicts. In the position of Australian Council Future Fellow and University of Adelaide associate Professor Sarah Wheeler, the future global water crisis is the most significant threat that will challenge international peace and order in the next ten years. This holding is supported by the findings of the “Global Risk Perception Survey,” outpacing the spread of contagious illnesses, “weapons of mass destruction,” regional and inter-country conflicts, and failing to address the problems ...

Introduction

The world we live in today has not always been what it is but has been built to what it is today. While little is known of the Western world, specifically the Americas before explorers such as Christopher Columbus discovered it, there exists rich literature of ancient civilizations that have shaped all spheres of modern life. The most recognized civilizations include the Egyptian civilization, the Roman Empire, and the Greek civilization. The fall of one civilization led to the rise of another civilization and so forth. The earliest recorded civilization, however, is the Egyptian civilization and scholars have credited ...

The study of infectious diseases has always been crucial to mankind because of the devastating effects it has had on the human race. The influenza epidemic, for example, occurred repeatedly in the 20 th and 21st century, spreading across large regions and multiple continents. Influenza in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people world wide. This was higher than the amount of people that died in World War I. About 500,000 fatalities occurred in the US which was approximately 28% of the US population at that time. The number of deaths that took place in 1957 and 1968 ...

Several thousand years ago, the early modern humans were nomadic foragers, and they forage in groups. However, a major transition occurred around 10,000 BC changing the human behavior, a changeover from the control of the natural environment over humans, to humans in control over the natural environment. Before the start of the agricultural era, the early humans were hunter-gatherers, which means that they depended on wild resources for their nutritional requirements. This style of living led the early humans to have a largely nomadic lifestyle, with the abundance of food source dictated by the natural environment, specifically the ...

Hymn to the Nile explores the status that river Nile had before the people of Egypt as their lives depended on it. These people even referred to the river as god and even made sacrifices to appease this god. More importantly, the hymn appreciates that it’s the importance and benefits that the Nile brought to the people of Egypt that made them hold the river so close to their hearts that they referred to it as god. Looking at the hymn to the Nile, human beings should take care of the environment just as the environment takes care ...

1. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are one of the ancient wonders, which had been constructed in Babylonia’s capital city, Babylon, situated in the Persian Gulf of the present-day Iraq. King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled Babylon for over 43 years, built the gardens for his wife, Amyitis in seventh century B.C. . The gardens were 400 feet in length and width, with a height of over 80 feet. The gardens consist of arched terraces placed one above another, which rest upon huge cube-shaped pillars. The terraces are not only hollow, but filled with earth to ...

Abstract

Adequate clean water is essential for the health of every living thing on this planet. Humans create tons of pollution, effect the weather patterns that cause droughts, and there is a history of over-use of the aquifers in the form of wells and pollution from fracking which are detrimental to the survival of all living things. Global climate change, especially since the Industrial age began, has affected the entire planet in various ways. There have been larger storms as a result of climate change. There are serious droughts because of climate change. The ice caps are melting because of ...

The major developments of early human and social evolution

Apparently social and early human evolution determines all the inner changes in the core of the society, its structure and interaction of people with each other and environment. The term “development” means that we observe the positive changes within the area of social interaction. We may compare the society with a living organism as it is constantly evolving, acquiring some features, characteristics and abilities. Just like an organism evolve from the simplest form of the complex of various organs responsible for certain functions, the society evolves having different groups responsible for certain actions and functions ("Early Human Evolution: Early ...

Egyptian Pyramids

"Visiting card" of Egypt is the pyramids. There are about hundreds of them - large and small, with smooth and stepped sides that have survived virtually unchanged and more look like a shapeless heap of stones. They are located along the West Bank of the Nile in small groups near the place, where in the era of the Old Kingdom was the capital of the country - Memphis. The most famous of the pyramids are on the outskirts of Cairo, on the edge of the desert plateau of Giza, looming over the green valley of the Nile. Here at ...

In his three poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Harlem,” James Langston Hughes explores the struggles through which African-Americans had to endure in the first half of the twentieth century to be considered equal to white American citizens. James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, and died on 22, May, 1967. He was a central figure of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance (Langston). Hughes lived as an African-American, and experienced the racism that existed in America in the early twentieth century. However, despite his suffering, he retained love and compassion for all races ( ...

In North Africa and Middle East

In North Africa and Middle East booking for the holiday’s ranges four to five months prior to the due day. These bookings have been inconsistent in the last seven years. The major countries of destination in North Africa are Egypt and Morocco which enjoy adventure tours from majority of it visitors ranging from 25-34 years of age.

In North and central Asia

In North and Central Asia, booking for the holiday’s an average of three months to the day of departure. ...