Essays Tagged: "planet earth"

The First Day

and all talking laughing and smiling. I felt very small, like I was an alien who had just landed on planet Earth. I thought to myself, 'I should be at home, with my friends talking and laughing'. But ...

(3 pages) 91 0 4.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Time's Oldest Debate.

Time's Oldest DebateAccording to recent studies, planet earth formed approximately four and a half billion years ago. Since then, the earth has under ... greater light is the sun and the lesser light is the moon; however, themoon is not a light, it is a planet that reflects light. The people who wrote The Bible did not know that the moon was a planet; ... he people who wrote The Bible did not know that the moon was a planet; nor did they know that other planets even existed. So, they described the moon as a source of light just as the sun is a source o ...

(5 pages) 107 0 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The Wonderful History of Space Exploration In Depth

in the dark, black sky? Space exploration, is the exploration of space, meaning it is the study of planets, stars, and exploring new things in space. Thinking back into the ancient days, people used ... d to dream and imagine that they could explore their universe and see what is beyond the small blue planet earth. They're dream was accomplished in the 20th century, and since the ancient times, space ...

(39 pages) 420 1 3.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

Genetic Engineering

A. DNA is the building block of life. This block holds the code for every aspect of any life on the planet Earth. DNA decides whether one life will be a plant or rhinoceros. DNA also carries the infor ...

(3 pages) 92 1 4.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Green laws boost clean-up industry

en laws boost clean-up industry'IHave companies around the globe really become 'house-proud', or is planet earth just in for a spring cleaning? It is hard to say - but one thing is for sure; the envir ...

(4 pages) 89 0 3.8 Jan/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The EPA - Can It / Will it Save Our Environment?

done, then finding ways to fix it.The EnvironmentalProtection Agency is trying to fix our home, the planet Earth.Destruction of forests, land degradation, atmospericcontamination, and water scarcity a ...

(2 pages) 106 0 3.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

General Global Warming

Life on this planet Earth is the product of a delicate hand of God. He created the nature, a wonderful ecosystem ... ual should do is to invest in education, which is the key to a healthy and prosperous future of our planet. However, worldwide according to the current international agreements it is rapidly reducing ... because of the long times required for CFCs to be removed from the atmosphere" (WMO).Just imaging a planet without ozone layer; is like imaging a dead planet with the UV waves of the sun destroying ev ...

(3 pages) 66 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Population Control in India This essay explores the negative impacts of population control and how alternative measures can be set up to prevent this.

ife on Earth. There is a direct relationship between the Earth and the inhibitors that inhabit this planet. Over the years humans have been trying to develop planet Earth. Policies regarding our skies ...

(5 pages) 119 0 2.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

The Effects of Space Exploration on Modern Society

owed us to understand the greatness of the universe and the endless possibilities it offers us. Our planet, Earth, is inhabited by approximately 6 billion humans. This is well over our natural carryin ... ould win the space-race. Artificial satellites, a man made device that orbits around Earth or other planets, came along at about 1951, when the Russians launched "Sputnik 1" into orbit around Earth. S ...

(4 pages) 121 1 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

Ozone Layer Depletion.

nternet. However, did you ever wonder what the ozone layers actually was or what it does to protect planet earth and us? Did you ever wonder how the Ozone layer was formed? Until researching for this ... d wanted to gain more knowledge about the formation of the ozone layer, what is does to protect our planet, and why we should be bothered about doing anything to protect the depleting layer.The format ...

(7 pages) 115 0 3.4 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

What if the Sun Exploded?

wly with every massacre. No one could escape the skyward eruption of the detonated volcano; life on planet earth would come to an end. Planet Earth would be burnt to a crisp if not completely destroye ... s or Venus's moons but if size and shape is still intact it would just become one of the 9 lifeless planets in our solar system. Earth would become so poisonous that life would and could no longer exi ...

(3 pages) 72 3 3.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

This essay dives into the philosophy behind Lewis Caroll's Alice in WOnderland. It breaks down the story into three major philosophical ideas.

reality deprived dreamland, the ideas of realism and life seem to be more obvious there than on the planet earth. Wonderland is found somewhere between logic and the imagination. Lewis Carroll success ...

(9 pages) 109 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Climate and Global Warming

usses the topic of global warming and its effects from the atmosphere and outer space righ tdown to planet earth and its effect on people today and the future. This paper was used for an oral presenta ... vities are rapidly adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and that these gases tend to warm our planet. This is the basis for concern about global warming.VIIII. Emissions Inventories?An emission ...

(7 pages) 299 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences

Oceans rising

beg to differ from this prognosis of global warming causing the ocean levels to rise. The oceans of planet earth are not getting larger from global warming but from something simpler that is happening ... e. Logic would say that as the caps melt the water they produce would cause the water levels on the planet to rise. This is not the case. Try this: take a glass of water ½ full and fill it the ...

(3 pages) 28 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

International environmental institutions and committees. C

hat the world will face in the next one-hundred years or even less, one must truly imagine what the planet might possible look and feel like in the future. Take a journey with me into the future; we w ... he rising sea level has caused low lying land masses to be covered in water. The people of this new planet earth have only read about places like Florida, Hawaii, the island of the Caribbean, etc. fro ...

(5 pages) 80 2 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

A Short Report on Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"

Ender's Game is a book about a government program to defend the planet Earth from alien attack. There are certain child geniuses that are offered an opportunity to ... id an incredible job of explaining this futuristic story of a teenager who is being used to protect planet Earth against alien attack. I was impressed at the level of foreshadowing and job Orson Scott ...

(2 pages) 34 1 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Persuvasive essay on oil drilling.

t a limitless supply of resources, which we have been known to use and abuse for selfish gain. This planet Earth is meant to be shared with all other living organisms in equal harmony and balance. In ... on for the environment or long-term solutions to energy needs.In conclusion, as inhabitants of this planet, we have a responsibility to preserve earth's richness and vitality. Protecting America's fin ...

(5 pages) 77 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

My response to a film on pollution

ning the earth and kutumb meaning a brood), which essentially means that all of us who live on this planet earth belong to the same family, same brood.The concept of nature worship has also been p ...

(3 pages) 20 0 4.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

"Is America Number One?"

There are 193 countries on the planet earth, all diverse yet retaining strong similarities. Earth's people speak thousands of diffe ...

(3 pages) 54 3 3.9 Jan/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Planet Earth (SCI350 Astronomy)

Planet EarthWelcome to planet Earth. Although Earth's basic structure is similar to several other pl ... anet Earth. Although Earth's basic structure is similar to several other planets, Earth is the only planet that is able to sustain life. Actually, Earth is unique and special in many ways. Why does Ea ... olving ball capable of providing an atmosphere so conducive to humankind's needs? Earth is the only planet that inhibits life because it meets all the requirements needed to enable life processes.Eart ...

(3 pages) 101 0 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences