Essays Tagged: "Population"

Intense innovation of the 15th century

be the same again. Inthis paper, I would like to show how mental restructuring , within the general populationand the art world, provided a new outlet for artist's and architectsIn art, painters were ... eemed to tryto incorporate this into daily living as well as, art and architecture. With the generalpopulation growing more educated and intelligent, artist's and the like, started to createmore intel ...

(9 pages) 140 0 3.4 Feb/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Variations in High Altitude Populations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the high altitude stresses and the general adaptations made by the Tibetan population in the Himalayas and the Quechua

of my paper is quotes -"Some ten to twenty-five million people (that is less than 1% of the earth's population) currently make it[high altitude zones] their home(Moran,143)." The adjustment high altit ... In this paper I will describe the high altitude stresses. Along with adaptations made by the populations living in them. The two high altitude populations which I will examine in this paper are ...

(8 pages) 128 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Orangutans

heir feet on the ground, instead they walk on the outside of their curved foot.There is a scattered population of orangutan in Indonesian Borneo, Malaysia Borneo and northern Sumatra. The different ha ... eaters, because fruit is abundant in the forests they inhabit. They lead a very solitary life. The population continues to decline because of habitat loss, and fewer than 30,000 orangutans are though ...

(8 pages) 118 0 4.1 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Paper on the Vietnam experience from the book "Rumor of War"

ans, had succumbed to their environment. Their perceptions blurred, they committed crimes against a population they often felt indifferent to, sometimes disdainful towards, and always wary of. A popul ... taken in the investigation would also work in the direction of maintaining relations with the local population. The military, so committed to obtaining body counts, would have overlooked the killing o ...

(3 pages) 181 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Homeless

are finding themselves livingon the streets. With the decrease in the number of availablejobs, the population of homeless people has literally boomed.My questions are not as simple to answer as they ... cided to take an honestapproach to this service.What can the government do to decrease the homeless population?Although there is no quick and easy answer to solve thisdifficult problem, Toronto has th ...

(3 pages) 324 1 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Crime In the United States

e the rate of violent crimes dropped 4 percent. In the eight U.S. cities with more than one million population, the decrease in the number of violent crimes was 8 percent. In the 64 largest cities, wi ... in connection with all Crime Index offenses.Crime Rate:The 1995 Crime Index rate, 5,278 per 100,000 population, was 2 percent lower than in 1994. For 5- and 10-year trend increments, the 1995 rate, th ...

(4 pages) 174 1 3.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Facts about China

Facts about China1.)21% of China's population live in urban areas and 79% live in rural areas.2.)China's national anthem is the 'The Ea ... put to military use.10.)China's official name is People's Replubic of China (PRC).11.)China's total population is more than 1,000,000,000 which makes up more than 1/5 of the world's population.12.)Chi ... China, but extinct elsewhere.24.)It is estimated that there are more than 35 cities in China with a population of more than one million.25.)Mount Everest is 29,028 feet high and is the highest point o ...

(2 pages) 203 2 4.0 Jan/1994

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Crime In the United States

e the rate of violent crimes dropped 4 percent. In the eight U.S. cities with more than one million population, the decrease in the number of violent crimes was 8 percent. In the 64 largest cities, wi ... in connection with all Crime Index offenses.Crime Rate:The 1995 Crime Index rate, 5,278 per 100,000 population, was 2 percent lower than in 1994. For 5- and 10-year trend increments, the 1995 rate, th ...

(4 pages) 136 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Review of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"

ng the racial descrimination,which as Harper Lee pointed out, was not just limited to the cacausion population ofMaycomb. One of these instinces was when Lula commented on Finch children coming toa hi ... a deep hatered for blacks, and so they also treated all of them asprejudiced people. But, the black population, by far was disriminated against the most. Forinstince the many times Scout was told her ...

(2 pages) 71 1 4.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Internet and Internet Security

is called inappropriate for young people. Thegovernment wants censorship, but a small amount of the population does not.Legislative regulation of the Internet would not be a good thing for ourgovernme ...

(4 pages) 580 1 3.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

a massive income of immigrants to the United States. These immigrants we a huge chunk of the labor population and there fore were the backbones of our labor supply. We surely owe them many thanks bec ... ent rate. As it was also intended to, the Chinese Exclusion Act significantly decreased the Chinese Population in America. This unfair act led to much negative opposition towards the Chinese.The Chine ...

(4 pages) 159 0 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Islam In the U.S and the current stats

ew York is the U.S city with the highest proportion of Muslims. It has .80% of the U.S Muslims. The population of both California and New Jersey are both 60% Muslim. Illinois,Massachusetts,Ohio,Rhode ... nia and New Jersey are both 60% Muslim. Illinois,Massachusetts,Ohio,Rhode Island follow with Muslim populations of .40%. Many of these Muslims are not Arab and many Arabs are not Muslim. Only .20% of ...

(2 pages) 117 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam

Biological Warfare/Terrorism

n to person. Pastevents have demonstrated how catastrophic these diseases can be when unleashed on apopulation and are now becoming a favorite by terrorists when it comes to choosing aform of weaponry ... ith another country spawns from the frightof nuclear weapons. They may be used to annihilate a vast population within seconds ofthe initial blow- this does not even include all of the post-explosion d ...

(10 pages) 399 0 3.9 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Overcrowded Prisons

lleviate the problem the state tried to buy Richers Island from New York City. Since then a rise in population and in poverty have increased the problem and the government has been think of solutions ... There have been many new experimental programs in which the government is trying to keep the prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. Although ...

(4 pages) 271 1 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Why had the potato become the staple diet in Ireland in the 1840s?

enth century heavily influenced Irish culture, including its agriculture and the fluctuation of its population. The reason the Irish became so dependant on the potato was due to the colonial system. W ... cture, which the British had created. This encouraged a subdivision system, helping to increase the population and forcing the Irish to rely heavily on one food source.The potato originated in Cuzco, ...

(12 pages) 180 3 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. A discussion of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution and how it has overcome the trials and tribulations of time.

win's theory of evolution had gained a negative reception from the people of the era. The religious populations of the world were outraged, scientists were displeased with this farfetched grasp of sci ... f science, and a cult following of Darwinists was created. Not to mention the fact that the general population was in outraged at the thought of a monkey as an ancestor of the greatest and most notori ...

(9 pages) 443 3 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin

All About Cameroon

(1 pages) 90 0 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Black intellect

businesses that we own, our private institutions andorganizations combined with our ever increasing population in the United States couldhave never been imagined 50 years ago. Was it the black intelli ...

(7 pages) 124 1 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Wolff's views on the right of autonomy

A state is a group of people who have supreme authority within a given territory or over a certain population, according to Wolf. Authority then, is the right to command and the right to be obeyed wh ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Media's Effect on Politics

people that the news reaches, is probably the biggest factor. Television is watched by most of the population whereas, the amount of people that receive a newspaper, or other source of obtaining news ...

(2 pages) 182 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media