Essays Tagged: "Siberia"
Sustainable Development
al and other catastrophes.' Sustainable development is being ignored in Chile, the Philippines, and Siberia, practiced in Madagascar and in Alaska, and examined in the Lake Baikal region of Russia. Th ... taminants in soil.In the Russian north all aspects of sustainability were ignored. There in part of Siberia that stretches from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Novosibirsk in the south, [see app ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
CIrculation systems over China
tly belongs to the mid-latitudes, with a small part to the low latitudes. It is located at south of Siberia and the north of the tropical Pacific. At this distinctive location, the country is affected ... a typical cold anticyclone with central pressure above 1,040 hectopascals (hPa) developed over mid-Siberia and Mongolia (Mongolian High); while a strongly established cyclone over the north-western P ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Meteorology
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead"
ments before his execution was to occur, hissentence was commuted to four years hard labor in Omsk, Siberia. He accepted hispunishment and began to regard many of the simple convicts as extraordinary ... ion of the work, it appears to be a stream of consciousness account ofDostoyevsky's four years in a Siberian prison camp. But, upon further review, it seemsto be more an account of Dostoyevsky's perso ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
An essay on the wonders of Puritanism. Deals with how Puritans set a precedent in American Life
f many influences of the past dating all the way back to the first Asians crossing into Alaska from Siberia via the land bridge. Reformations, revelations, conflicts and wars, mass movements, and reli ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Intricate Art of Being... Joseph Conrad.
a poet and a translator arrested for patriotic conspiracy, thereafter sentenced to a penal exile in Siberia. Eveline, Conrad's mother, petitioned to go with his father (who had helped organise a secre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
he person in this story that is fighting a hard battle is Ivan Denisovich. The story takes place in Siberia inside a "special" prison camp in Siberia. The book discusses about how a man faced a day in ... or" camps instead of prison. Later on, concentrations co-existed with the corrective labor camps in Siberia under the authority of the secret police. Many of these inmates were there mainly for politi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Trotsky's career.
mbined and that a proletarian revolution would then spread throughout the world. He was banished to Siberia again, and he worked as a journalist. At the outbreak of World War One, he was an active in ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Literary Analysis of "Escape to the City". An analysis of the short story "Escape to the City" by Gordon Woodward which was printed in Abook Society Searchlight.
gue. The conversation in the story reads, " "I'm in Vancouver," I said. "Where did you think I was: Siberia?" (7)This shows Patrick is sarcastic or humorous.Through Clifford's actions, his character i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Books
ettable. It is the true story of a young Jewish girl named Esther Rudomin, and her family living in Siberia. This book is entitled 'The Endless Steppe', written by Esther Hautzig.The story takes place ... ones in Vilna, Poland. They are taken by train, along with peasant families to an endless steppe in Siberia where they are forced to work in various places, including gypsum mine. Siberia lacks many n ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Japan History
rs were fishers, hunters and gatherers who slogged over the land bridges from Korea to the west and Siberia to the north. It's also thought that seafaring migrants from Polynesia were part of the ethn ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Chinese fire bellied toad
s one of 6 members of the genus Bombina. It is found at 1700-3000 m above sea level in southeastern Siberia, northeastern China and Korea. It spends most of the time floating or swimming in ponds and ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Geography of the Ancient Aztecs
e always searching for a new place to settle. Their tribes were descendents of people who came from Siberia and Alaska during the ice age.The Aztecs were originally made up of nomadic hunters. They wa ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History
Dmitri Mendeleev: Father of The Periodic Table.
Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia (northern Russia), in 1834. His family owned a glass factory, which unfortunately burned to ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
What is the Bering Land Bridge, how did it come about and why is it important to the peopling of the Americas?
icas?The Bering Land Bridge or also known as Beringia was a piece of land that connected Alaska and Siberia during several times during the Pleistocene. The distance between Asia and North America is ... ped considerably up to as much as 100 - 150 meters and the shallow Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia became a natural land bridge on which grazing animals, and the humans that hunted them, coul ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Garlic used as magic
f Amaryllidaceae. They belong in the same family as onions , leeks and shallots and originated from Siberia and then spread into the Mediterranean. Throughout many centuries, people have found to beli ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Bering Strait Theory
Theory is as follows. It is thought the first people in the Americas came from the Artic region of Siberia across a land bridge that is now under the Bering Sea. This occurred during the Ice Age, bet ... ame locked up in the polar ice caps, sea levels dropped as much as 300 feet. The Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska is no more than 180 feet deep and would have been dry land at those times. The br ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Woolly Mammoth
in the colder climates because of its long wiry hair. It lived in the northern areas of present day Siberia, Northern Europe, most of Canada, and remains have been found as far south as South Dakota. ... ge is probably responsible for the final extinction of the woolly mammoth.Recently an expedition to Siberia produced an almost full carcass of the Woolly Mammoth. Several scientists have wondered if t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
World Lit
ne Day in a Life of Ivan Denisovich, Shukov, the protagonist is imprisoned in a Soviet work camp in Siberia. He endures a hard life working in below zero weather with no way out. The way he thinks is ... in turn has a profound impact in their lives.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in situated in Siberia where the temperature is below zero and stays extremely cold. This novel is taken place duri ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Ice Maiden For Anthropology
ICE MAIDEN In Siberia in 1993, Natalia Polosmak made a huge discovery, one that was admired and displayed around t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
George Eliot
lso responsible for initiating purges in which many were either killed or sent to the death camp in Siberia. Stalin saw it to be vital to send people which he felt were interfering with his 10 years p ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers