Essays on Perch

Introduction

An ecosystem is defined as the interaction of the organism and other nonliving factors in a certain community. The living components of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and other organisms, can be classified as the biotic component of the ecosystem, whereas the environmental conditions such as water amount, humidity, soil nourishment, temperature, and the like are termed as the abiotic factors. In an ecosystem, both the existing biotic and abiotic factors determine what kind of species live there. For example, turtles, which require a large amount of water to live in cannot possibly hope to survive in arid ...

Windmills have been widely used since thousands of years to pump water for agricultural purposes, propel ships and grind grains. As civilizations advanced, other convenient sources of energy replaced wind energy. Currently, fossil fuels that include coal, oil and natural gas fulfill the energy needs of nations across the world. These fuel sources are responsible for polluting the environment through the emission of hydrocarbons that cause global warming and various other environmental hazards. Also, these non-renewable energy sources are much limited and continue to deplete from the face of the earth. Therefore, wind energy that can be tapped conveniently ...

Introduction

Approximately 2.5 million individuals in the United States contract pneumonia annually, and 55,000 of those individuals die as a result. In fact, pneumonia was the eighth prominent cause of morbidity and is the number one communicable disease in the United States. Pneumonia is the leading deadly hospital-contracted disease and contributes to a sizable amount of deaths in unindustrialized countries as well. It is a grave illness that can impact individuals in all age groups, but it is especially serious in adolescents, the elderly population, and in people with fundamental medical issues such as ischemia, low blood sugar, and ...

Communication

Introduction The National Football League or NFL is a professional American Football organization which consists of 3 teams that are equally divided between the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference (Jozsa, 2004, p. 270). The organization was found in 1920 and was named as American Professional Football Association before it renamed itself in 1923. They agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966 and after that, the first Super Bowl was held. However, it was only considered a sporting event until 1973 where it began transforming into a culture. The Super Bowl is considered to ...

Communication

Introduction The National Football League or NFL is a professional American Football organization which consists of 3 teams that are equally divided between the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference (Jozsa, 2004, p. 270). The organization was found in 1920 and was named as American Professional Football Association before it renamed itself in 1923. They agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966 and after that, the first Super Bowl was held. The Super Bowl is considered to be one of the biggest sporting events in the world and the games organized by the NFL ...

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Susan Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and co-founder of the Provincetown Players, America’s first modern American theater company. A powerful woman of time she has a lasting effect into today’s literary world. In her writing, she looked at the inequality of how society treated sexes differently and the difficulties of women faced if they tried to live independently by trying to live their own lives without relying on men and how they circumvented the attempts at social repression. . The Provincetown Players provided a stage for her to mature as a writer. The Provincetown Players were as the ...

Analysis of Water Quality from the Rivers Colne, Holme and Calder Flowing through Huddersfield/Mirfield

Analysis of Water Quality from the Rivers Colne, Holme and Calder Flowing through Huddersfield/Mirfield

Introduction

It is a truism that water is a valuable resource. Rivers are among the major suppliers of freshwater resources for humans and other terrestrial organisms. Thus, without rivers humans could not have survived. The importance of river systems has been elucidated even during the rise of the Egyptian Civilization. The Nile River for instance has provided humans with food, drink, fertile soil and even a site for settlement (Hassan and Al Rasheedy, 2007). The ecosystem services that the river provide to people since time immemorial include water supply ...

Essay

How Are the Major Rivers in Africa Vital to Its Economy? In terms of total annual runoff (4600 km3) Africa takes third place after Eurasia and South America, and by the thickness of the layer (less than 160 mm) it is inferior to all continents except Australia and Antarctica. The main watershed of the African continent passes through its most elevated eastern edge, so more than 1/3 of the runoff is in the Atlantic Ocean, only about 1/4 in the Indian Ocean, even less - in the Mediterranean Sea. About 1/3 of Africa (about 9 million km2) has ...

Introduction

The contents of automobile ads in the past sixty years reflect the changes in society. Companies make huge investments, utilize sophisticated technologies, and make use of very persuasive language to market existing products (Green, 2012). In the automobile industry, advertising is a key strategy to promote and sell cars, trucks, and accessories. According to Georgano (2013) “the advertising industry and the automobile grew up side by side and each was a major stimulus to the other” (para 1). For the past sixty years, there have been changes in automobile ads, not only in the contents but also in their platform of ...

Globalization has made the world a global village; people interact in various fronts such as business, trade, culture, and other forms of interactions. The documentary film Darwin’s Theory and Tuna are important in putting into perspective the merits and demerits of globalization. Globalizations enhance the relationship between countries, which in turn leads to economic prosperity of the countries which benefits from the bilateral relationship. Despite these apparent benefits of globalization, there are adverse impacts that should be mitigated. In most cases the developed countries usually takes advantage of developing countries in fronts such as trade or neocolonialism. It is ...

Dedication: This poetry analysis essay, which analyzes four poems exploring death, is lovingly dedicated to my grandfather who recently passed on.

This essay analyzes four different poems from four different authors. All of the poems relate to death, and each author has a distinct way of thinking and exploring the issue. “Play”, by A. R. Ammons begins by painting a gloomy picture of everyone’s eventual demise and then turns that around by using it as a justification for following one’s dreams. Dylan Thomas’s poem “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” is a powerful statement against, written in a Biblical voice of ...

Modernisation versus traditional heritage

‘Dead Men’s Path’ by Chinua Achebe is a short story about Obi, a bright and ambitious headmaster, the protagonist in the story, who finds that he can bring on the worst of fates because of his ignorance over the ancestry of the people. The story is woven around his modernistic approach in a society marked by traditions and the valuable lesson he learns at a heavy price to his career. Therefore, the main theme of the story revolves around traditional norms and cultural practices, as the being of the ancient path is revealed and the responses from Obi and the villagers express ...