Essays on Explorer

Jean Nicolet, born 1598 at Cherbourg, France. Died November 1, 1642. His place of death was at Sillery, Quebec City, Canada. His cause of death was drowning. JEan Nicolet, Sieur de Belleborne was a French coureur des bois noted for discovering and exploring Lake Michigan,...

Marco Polo was an Italian merchant and explorer, famous for introducing Europeans to China and Central Asia. He inspired future travelers, including Christopher Columbus. Born presumably in the Republic of Venice around 1254, Marco Polo played an important role in cartography. His pioneering explorations of...

Explorer John Smith had a few quality characteristics that helped turn him into a very important person in the settlement of the New World. John Smith was known as being a very brave and strong man who lacked fear. When he was a young boy,...

Space Exploration Throughout watching Apollo 13, it was evident that many things can wrong in space and that there is a huge risk when sending humans into space. It is not only a risk to their lives but also to those who fund the explorations....

Time travel can be viewed as a child’s play. Being categorized as science fiction, the concept of this art has been universally known as the act of physically traveling to a different period and tends to involve some sort of transportation machine. Time travel was...

For some people tomorrow is just another day; many do the same routine: get ready for school, go to class, go to sports practice, and sleep. Typically, peoples’ minds are prone to repeat the same process and go with what they have always done on...

Walton’s criteria and Dora the Explorer Dora the explorer is a fictional character that goes on adventures whose purpose is targeted towards teaching a young audience new things. From counting, to the values of friendship and sharing, Dora teaches the characters audience fundamentals or a...

Is time travel real? Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the renowned ‘Magic Tree House’ series. In which Mary writes about a brother (Jack) and sister (Annie) duo, who go on adventures through time to inform the youth who read light novels about that...

Time travel is ethical because we can learn about the past, solve unsolved crimes, and visit lost loved ones. Time travel has shown that can be very helpful in most cases. Lacking knowledge about how the future will evolve given changes to the past is...

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY The definition of superconductivity. Superconductivity is a phenomenon displayed by certain conductors that show no resistance to the flow of electric current. Conductors are materials in which the electron current goes through. There are 4 different kinds of conductors. Insulators, like glass or wood,...

The French explorer – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was born in Rouen, Normandy, France on November 22, 1643. He was born into a wealthy merchant family and was raised as a Jesuit Priest. However, he gave up his priesthood at the age of...

The lodestone, is a natural permanent magnet. Other permanent magnets can be made by subjecting certain materials to a magnetic force. When the force is removed, these materials retain their own magnetic properties. They are made by surrounding certain materials with a coil of wire....

So little of Hipparchus’s life has been recorded, but he is considered the very founder of trigonometry. Reasonably enough Hipparchus is often referred to as Hipparchus of Nicaea or Hipparchus of Bithynia and he is listed among the famous men of Bithynia by Strabo, the...

When the explorers in ‘The Case of the Speluncean Explorers’ pleaded from their cave prison for advice as to whether they should murder one of their party, ‘none of those attached to the rescue camp was willing to assume the role of advisor in this...

Time travel is the act of traveling to either the future or past. It is the action of moving from different points in time, although time travel is something considered science fiction there are many aspects in science that prove it possible. To understand time...

Scientists discovered bones and eggs from over 120 million-years ago, (Gramling,2017) in Beijing, China. This collection of 215 eggs, was accompanied by the bones of older individuals, all belonging to a type of Pterosaur called the Hamipterus tianshanensis. The remains were all in different stages...

The issue of travelling in time is not new because it has been interesting to people for centuries and continues to be interesting to us today. However, in spite of people’s high concern and eagerness to uncover time’s mysteries, it still keeps its secrets as...

The Times magazine used to publish on August 1 this year, bypassed many political and economic topics of great concern and left the cover story to the ancient Ibn Battuta, like an opportunity to explore the development of the Islamic world in this era. He...

In 1507, the name America emerged after a world map was created based on the travels of Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo Vespucci was a merchant and explorer who sail the New World for Spain in the 15th century. Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, in,...

Christopher Columbus and Alvez Nunez Cabeza de Vaca were both explorers for Spain, but under different rulers and different times. The more famous, Christopher Columbus came before de Vaca’s time. Columbus sailed a series of four voyages between 1492 and 1504 in search for a...