The Dynamics Of The Pacific Ocean Essay

to accompany them. The purpose of this expedition was to find a water route to the Pacific, to

The Encounters in Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania were very fascinating encounters. These encounters of early societies in the Americas and Oceania were quite similar to the ones in Africa and Eurasia. Geography also played an important role in these early societies. A few topics I will address are: in what ways were the societies of the Americas and Oceania similar to those in Africa and Eurasia in spite of such isolation. The factors in which contributed to the difficulties in sustaining log distant trade of the societies in America and Oceania with neighboring societies. The last topic I will address is what the existence of such interactions despite such

Captain James Cook added exponential territories to Britain’s colonial possessions during his three voyages. Cook’s exploration of the Pacific Ocean contributed to Britain’s huge territorial gains, increased wealth, and influenced Europe’s romantic fascination with the science of mapping, charting and classifying the world. Cook was a supremely gifted surveyor and star navigator. His discoveries and the accurate cartographic depiction of them, were of incomparable benefit to his contemporaries. Captain Cook made three exemplary voyages of exploration and discovery. These voyages brought unimaginable new views of scientific, geographic, and cultural knowledge to a modernizing European world on the verge of the Enlightenment. Although Cook himself was not steeped in this intellectual movement, which was gradually moving away from the traditions of received opinions and Christian thoughts, the results of his Pacific voyages made major contributions to the scientific and cultural knowledge that led to the enlightenment of his colleagues and philosophers. Cook’s explorations and ‘discoveries’ were indeed new to the Western world, but to the Pacific islanders they had been known for thousands of years. The knowledge Cook provided to his contemporaries in turn, was used to justify colonisation of the ‘discovered’ lands. This essay will present two arguments. The first argument will demonstrate how the voyages of Captain James Cook added to the colonial possessions of the British

The start of The Ocean at the End of the Lane began with an older man about the age of forty he returned home to his homeland in Sussex, England for a funeral. He then decided that he would revise the location of the house he once lived in. He then remembers that there was a young girl, about the same age as his sister, named Lettie Hempstock. He also remembers the fact that Lettie would always tell him about the pond behind the house being an ocean and not a pond. With Lettie on his mind and him being in town for the funeral he decided that he would go and visit where Lettie grew up. She was a young girl at the time so she lived with her mother and her grandmother. As this man approaches the house, Lettie is no longer there but a family

If you have ever lived in proximity to coastal areas you may have seen coastline erosion first hand. The beaches you frequent during the summer may seem to be getting smaller and smaller every year. Why does your favorite beach seem to be disappearing? Coastal erosion is to blame. The waves, wind, tides and currents all play a part in the mechanism that is coastal erosion. When water and wind batter the shoreline sediments are carried out to sea and deposited on the sea floor or at other points along the coastline. This is called an erosional coastline. This erosion may be very apparent or seem to have happened overnight when it happens due to a large storm or extremely high tide.

It’s been called the sleeping giant. Myths of California breaking off and floating away into the Pacific Ocean. This myth is one of the most popular to this day. Why? Because of a 800 mile long fault that makes it’s way through California called the San Andreas Fault. Beginning when the East Pacific Rise submerged under the North American Plate about 40 miles away from what is now Los Angeles. Spreading northwest and southeast, The San Andreas Fault or SAF gradually grew, and is still growing. The grinding plates, along with earthquakes, to this day are gradually reshaping California, as we know it. In this paper, we will look at the history of The SAF and learn what it is and what it could be capable of doing.

The Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the five oceans in the world. It is home to many fish and other creatures. It is one of the five oceans that actually intrigue me. My questions were, How big is the ocean itself, what life lives here, and the trade routes of this ocean.

Indian voyages on the Indian Ocean were part of a more general development, bordering on current with the Mauryan Empire, in which sailors of assorted origins began to piece together the shores of the “Southern Ocean”, a Chinese term referring to all the waters from the South China Sea to the eastern coast of Africa.  During that time period, the most bodacious sailors were most certainly the Malays; peoples came from what is now Malaysia, Indonesia, the southeastern coast of Vietnam, and the Philippines.

AmorePacific had already accomplished a leadership position in the Korean market in the mid-1960s. They implemented a door-to-door sales strategy on their own which carved out a dominant position in the sales channel. AmorePacific also led the Korean industry in initiating exports in 1959 and kept retaining export effort to global market. From the mid-1990s, AmorePacific endeavored at comprehensive cost-reduction programs, amplified R&D, restructured brand management as well as its brand portfolio, realigned long-stand distribution relationship.

Sea levels during the Pleistocene glaciation 60,000-40,000 BP were roughly 50 meters lower than they are today, which allowed continental platforms to open up (Allen and O’Connell, 2008:36; Balme, 2013:70; Balter, 2007:388; Denham et al., 2009:30; O' Connell and Allen, 2015:75). These formerly isolated regions were incorporated into larger landmasses; thereby, allowing for colonization and exploration in these new expanses. During this period of glaciation, there would have been enough land connections between the Sunda and Sahul to allow populations to migrate, without the need for large maritime vessels. People would have conceivably been able to make simple sea voyages staying close to island coastal regions on rafts. I hypothesize therefore,

When learning about the old Polynesian sailors, I found out that they didn't really have anything to help guide them

The concept behind this theory suggests that the indigenous people had traveled perhaps on boats, of a sort, along the coast line rather than by foot across the land (Hudson Lecture

The second half of Pacific Histories Ocean, Land, People, edited by David Armitage and Alison Bashford was much different than the first. This part of the collections of essay’s focused mostly on the knowledge and identities of the people within the Pacific before and after European contact. Once again not much is known about how the people behaved and lived their lives before European contact, but the authors assume a lot of what they believed the people thought. Most of the second part of the reading had to do with what happened after Europeans made contact. But I believe that a lot of information could be flawed just due to the fact, who wants to write something down that would look negative toward them. The king or queen commissioning

When referring to Arizona’s water Kris Mayes, chairwoman of the state’s utility regulatory panel once said, “How do you say just how valuable water is in an arid state like Arizona?” she said. “It’s like the credit-card commercial-it’s priceless” (McKinnon). She was right, because in a dry state like Arizona, water is pretty important. To say water is ‘pretty important’ for the world is an understatement. We use water to function. And when we think of water we think of saving it. Keep the faucets from dripping or turn off the water while brushing your teeth. There are numerous tips for water conservation, but people don’t often think of the damage that is already done. Damages like ‘dead zones’. Dead zones in the ocean have been around for

My name is Oliver Kirby and I am a historian. For many years now I have been deeply invested in the study of South American and Polynesian history. The magazine ‘The Good Weekend’ approached me with an opportunity to write an article discussing the rise and expansion of Easter Island and then its decline. I will also be discussing if what happened to Easter Island is a microcosm of what might happen to the rest of the world.