Black Studies Paper
African's past can be dated back to millions and millions of years. People from every continent is a descendant of the African origin. This essay will explain African's isolation to the rest of the world and some of the famous contributions and some of Africa's contributions to our world. R....
Darfur Genocide: History in the Making
Genocides have plagued our lives for centuries and continue to remain to this day. The Oxford Dictionary defines the horrors of genocide as "the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation."(Compact Oxford English Dictionary) This short, yet powerful ....
Effect of the Reneisance on Europe
Europe in the 13th century was dry of culture and spices and many other luxuries that some other parts of the world enjoyed. However, they did not know it. Not until the crusades exposed Europeans to the many riches, spices, technology, and other luxuries of the east did the true spur for exploratio....
Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates, of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates, of Human Societies (1999) by Jared Diamond Jared Diamond is a physiologist who wrote this book based on the question: Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? Diamo....
Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert is translated into The Great Desert. It is the worlds largest desert. The land stretches from the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean including parts of the Mediterranean Sea. From north to south the Sahara is between 800 and 1,200 miles and is at least 3,000 miles from east t....
soil erosion
Erosion is defined as the wearing away of land surface by water, wind, ice, or other geological agents, including such processes as gravitational creep. The beginning stages of erosion are weathering, the types of soil erosion or carrying factors are, water, wind, gravity, and ice. There are di....
what effects population density?
What factors affect Population density ? 28. September 2005
Population density is the number of people inhabiting a certain area. It is the population divided by the area. Its measuring unit is km². World population distribution is very uneven. Places whic....