Earth, our home planet, is a perfectly designed system of forests, lakes and rivers, and intricate layers that all work together to form a sustainable environment that houses species beyond our count and imagination. A beautiful and complex fundamental set of ingredients form life on this planet and without one of these ingredients life would not have been possible. Like variables in an equation, everything in our planet is dependent on one another and everything combined predicts the final outcome. Everything living on this planet is in perfect balance and harmony with its natural surroundings, but since mankind emerged and advanced we have become unappreciative and greedy and turned a blind eye on nature. We have inherited a 4.5 billion year old legacy and in less than 200,000 years we have taken possession of every habitat and depleted most of its valuable resources. How did life on this beautiful planet come into being? What are the fundamental ingredients that make life on this planet possible? How did we advance so much and how is this advancement a negative thing for us? The earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago, and although there are many theories about how it was created or formed, we will never know for certain. Our planet Earth is a perfect one, capable of sustaining human and animal life, along with millions of plants and insects. The earth is in a perfect location in our solar system to be able to sustain life, conserve water in liquid form, and provide
One of the oldest books the Epic of Gilgamesh gives us a view on how the old civilization Mesopotamia and its people were it roots back to the year 2000 B.C.E. The book starts off by the King Gilgamesh sending a temple-prostitute to tame a wild man named Enkidu who acted like an animal in the grasslands. The temple-prostitute then sexualy charms him to win Enkidu’s trust. then convinces him to go back with her to the city. She then clothes him and teaches him how to eat cooked food and brewed beer and how to bathe. By her words it shows how the mesopotamians lived.
Scientists have found that the Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago by collisions in the giant disc-shaped cloud of material that also formed the Sun. As gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps, it became asteroids and small early planets called planetesimals. These objects collided repeatedly and gradually got bigger, building up the planets in the Solar System. Although scientists are very close to answering the question, they still continue to search for the exact answer to how the Earth was created. With all the evidence presented, it is hard to refute from scientific theories. This becomes cumbersome to many religions because in their eyes God has always been the creator of the Earth.
Although “Unaccustomed Earth” focuses primarily on the effects of Ruma’s father on Ruma’s family, Jhumpa Lahiri also examines the hardships of letting go of those who you care for and moving on. Using the death of Ruma’s mother as the theme setter, Jhumpa Lahiri also addresses the indirect effect of her death on Ruma and her Father’s relationship. Lahiri introduces this concept through consistent comparisons of her father to her mother as well as her decision to do nothing when she notices the growing rift between her father and herself. The effect of her death become one of the main reasons that Ruma and her father become so vacant in each other’s lives. Ruma’s mother acted as the glue which kept her family tied together, her presence being
The earth itself is an astonishing planet with the fact that life exists on it is an amazing achievement. Evolution is the fact of life and the reason why humans came into existence. Evolution is responsible for all forms of life on earth. The entire natural world, including humans, plants and animals are all directly linked through the evolutionary process. Over the period of time, those species who were best fit to survive remained into existence and those who were unfit got extinct- “survival of the fittest” derived from Charles Darwin evolution theory-The mechanism of natural selection. So just like other existing species, humans have done something right in the
The evolution of that formation created the world we live in today. The earth has been in existence for a little over four point five billion years to be exact. The earth shares a story that we are still exploring. From its colorful coral reefs in bright and vibrant
After reading chapter three of A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle, I realized how often other people and myself complain or blame others. Tolle's perception of this egoistic behavior is that the ego causes people to try and make themselves feel right or superior over others. Which is shown when Tolle states "It is a total misinterpretation, a projection of the mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior" (62). Human ego often resorts to looking down upon others to make itself feel better. It happens a lot when people do things of a competitive nature. Such as playing sports, advertising, arm wrestling, etc. It is even more evident when competing with a team because it is a lot easier to blame others for losing rather than yourself. Nobody wants to admit they are the reason their team lost, so instead of losing with the team, some make themselves seem better or above the team to deal with loss. It is always easier to blame others rather than yourself.
The Earth began several billion years ago, but just six thousand years ago history began to be recorded by people, and only 500 hundred years ago, European conquerors set off into the world, forever changing the balance of the entire planet. 225 million years ago the supercontinent began to drift apart and formed Eurasia Africa Australia and the Americas. It opened up the Atlantic and Indian Ocean as well as narrowing the Pacific Ocean. However land masses and coastal ranges developed at separate times . Basic geography of North America was formed 10 million years ago. The modern geography of the earth however was created by the great ice age 2 million years ago.
1. A cosmopolitan civilization developed through increased and farther-reaching trade, connections, conquests, and relocations. This civilization took the form of diverse groups of people with similar technologies and beliefs. The book, “The Earth and It’s Peoples” says, “Akkadian became the language of correspondence between governments. The Elamites and Hittites, among others, adapted the cuneiform system to write their own languages… Mesopotamian myths, legends, and styles of art and architecture were widely imitated” (page 72, paragraph 7). The Cosmopolitan civilization was characterized by shared Mesopotamian traits. Whatever the reason for it, Mesopotamian culture spread across the Middle East to create a society with shared
“The early Earth was probably partially or largely molten” (The Solar Nebula. N.d). Over time the earth cooled and the crust was formed. “Much continental crust, the most silica rich and least dense kind, has been produced by 2.5 billion years” (The Solar Nebula. N.d). Over a period of time and a series of volcanic eruptions water vapor was thrown into the atmosphere and eventually condensed to form the oceans. From a spinning cloud of dust the evolutionary process began and the Earth that is inhabited today came into existence according to the nebular hypothesis.
Our relationship with nature has currently become strictly economic. we tend to don't associate ourselves as a section of nature as a result of we tend to use it for profit. Forests ar abate for the profits of the lumber trade and to form area for placental mammal. Animals that we tend to ar doubtless associated with, that have senses and therefore the ability to socialize ar slaughtered by the billions to feed Associate in Nursing more and more carnivorous population. Resources like oil and food ar all erratically distributed throughout the globe and thus used as a platform for profit. All the whereas the surroundings bears the grunt of our
Everyone has their opinion and it depends on a person and what they choose to believe or accept. Per the research of Geologic Time (radiometric) the Earth is about 4.600 billions years old. The bible said it’s
The Queensland Theatre Company’s rendition of ‘The Wider Earth’ was a highly captivating piece of theatre, which recounted the scientific visionary, Charles Darwin’s voyage on the HMS beagle. Through the extensive manipulation of dramatic languages, in which ritualistic movement, characterisation, tension of relationship, and symbolism were all employed in order to achieve the company’s artistic director, Sam Strong’s aims to have “the cast beautifully transform the various historical and fictional characters into three dimensional human beings.”
This beautiful, amazing planet of ours was doing just fine providing us with the essential things we inhabitants needed for survival, as well as family and social unity which in much of the world is very different today. So, we must ask ourselves, why when hunting and gathering provided us with all our needs, we were healthier and the world we lived in thrived, did we choose to destroy our forests, oceans, lands and strip our world of so much it offered. While people have many wonderful theories, all I see at the root, is greed.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is a novel that takes place in China in mid to late 19th century. Wang Lung who is the protagonist is farmer and farms his land, and his wife O-Lan takes care of her children, and also helps Wang Lung in his fields. Throughout the novel the family has had times causing them to live a great life. Wang Lung’s land provides with fulfillment and well being while working in his land; however, when he is unable to work in the fields, he is unfulfilled. The House of Hwang is located in Anhwei province China, in which surrounds a big gate and a big door, inside Live’s the Old Lord and the Old Mistress. Wang Lund had found O-Lan as a slave in the House og Hwang and picked her out to marry her, and that’s where the story
A photograph of Earth reveals a great deal, but it does not convey the complexity of our environment. Our environment (a term that comes from the French environner, “to surround”) is more than water, land, and air; it is the sum total of our surroundings. It includes all of the biotic factors, or living things, with which we interact. It also includes the abiotic factors, or nonliving things, with which we interact. Our environment includes the continents, oceans, clouds, and ice caps you can see in the photo of Earth from space, as well as the animals, plants, forests, and farms that comprise the landscapes around us. In a more inclusive sense, it also encompasses our built