Essays on Geography & Travel

These six flags that fly over Texas have made up most of Texas’s early history. Each of these flags tells a story of what we had to go through. Like having revolutions, fighting to be independent, and becoming a multicultural state. These six flags also...

Described by one national newspaper in 1915 as the best-known nationalist figure in Ireland, Arthur Griffith and his ideology had clearly gained, at the very least, widespread recognition across Ireland. To explain his ideology we can situate his ideas into a framework of longer-term patterns...

Anthropogenic noise is one of the least understood and most common threats to National Parks. Energy development, infrastructure expansion, and urbanization create a noise footprint that fragments the acoustical landscape and restricts the natural quiet to brief intervals in most protected natural areas. A group...

“Every election is determined by those who show up,” Canada is a country with nearly twenty-six million eligible electors according to Elections Canada, however, only sixty-eight percent of these citizens showed up to the polls on election day in twenty-fifteen. This number is an upgrade...

Introduction: Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, known to us as Paul Kruger, played a major role in shaping the History of South Africa with his contribution and involvement during the Angelo-Boer War and a strong sense of fighting for the independence of the Transvaal against the...

About California: In ancient times, California was not under U.S. territory. Later in 1850, it became the 31st state. California is the most populous state of the U.S. It is the 3rd largest state which covers 423,970km sq. with a 39.6 million Population. Sacramento is...

Vikings have long had a reputation as fearsome warriors and savages. Evidence found at archaeological sites in York, England challenges the stereotypes that have been associated with them for years. The general assumption made about the Vikings has stayed the same for most of human...

Although the Chesapeake region was a small region that had success, ultimately New England had greater success because they had better climate, their government was advanced and were able to fish. The reason the New England colonies were founded was because separatists were fleeing religious...

In this essay I’m going to give you a brief introduction and comparison of the role of a woman in New England and in Chesapeake. Women’s roles in early New England, where dictated by their strong Puritan religious values. The wives never did any of...

For the religious site visit, I visited the Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Claremont, California. I am Episcopalian, only being baptized when I was young but other than that I am not that religious. I was nervous about observing and participating in...

On the 17th January 1920, the now infamous American constitutional Prohibition on alcohol began. With some reservation, the Guardian reported at the time; ‘One minute after midnight to-night America will become an entirely arid desert as far as alcoholics are concerned… Excessive fines and dungeon...

The idea of taking photographs to let people see new places around the world sounded like a dream job to me. I started a list of places I wanted to photograph around the world and hung it on my wall. Never actually thinking I would...

Can you imagine walking over the sky by your own feet? Flying like a bird and the laying in between clouds is one of a dream we have in kids. And now we can enjoy an equal place by visiting Grand Canyon. Earlier it was...

The three colonial regions are consisted of: the New England, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies. The New England colonies consist of (Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire). The Middle colonies consist of (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey). The Southern colonies consist of...

While the idea of venturing to the “New World” began to spark interest amongst the English, in the 1600’s upon many of their rivals they began to settle and expand their grounds. They created colonies along the eastern border of the United States, such as...

All through the seventeenth century, the recently settled provinces in North America kept on distinguishing themselves as Europeans. Be that as it may, as frontier development advanced they accepted various personalities. By the 1700’s, the regular religious soul and family arranged way of life in...

 Cities are “spatial manifestations of broader social forces and struggles”, contained and shaped by their built environment. Industrial capitalist modernity has been the driving force behind city development, and the commodification of ‘place’ has resulted into cities being ‘converted into products to be sold in...

The urban modernization narrative calls to replace the native urban poor with a new class of people who will uphold the world-city ambitions projected by Bangalore’s government. Indeed, India’s land dispossession and booming property investments are not occurring in its city centers, but rather on...

Introduction The author has written this article in order to signify what religious freedom is. However, before that we require to understand what religion is. Religion is associated to human being’s relation to that which they favor as holy, sacred, spiritual, or divine. Religion is...