Nature Essays

Earthquakes happen all over the world and at many different magnitudes. The earthquakes in Kobe, Japan and in Northridge, California happened almost exactly a year apart, halfway around the world. How were these massive earthquakes so different, but also alike in many ways? These quakes were similar from the technical …

Abstract Oil and gas exploration and exploitation in Niger Delta region (Nigeria) have been characterized by environmental degradation as a result of oil spillage, flaring of gas, deforestation and other unwholesome practices of oil and gas multinational companies operating in the area. The devastation of the environment is the consequence …

Water is part of our, everyday existence, it falls from the sky, we drink in from bottles and in our coffee and tea, we wash ourselves, our cars, flushing our waste “away” and maybe even water the lawn or garden with it. It is something that I believe cannot be …

Underwater communication processes will introduce in sending and receiving messages of below the water. To observes the effectiveness of communication over sea water through free space optics. The transmitter and receiver data rate will vary depending on the level of various aspects of the sea. Underwater communication is crucial for …

The question wheatear humans are contributing to Global Warming has been a great debate among people. Global Warming is understood to be a natural phenomenon which causes the increase in earth atmosphere and oceans because of high concentration of greenhouse gases but are humans aggravating the issue. Being a controversial …

In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the author uses subtle symbolism to reflect the speaker’s distant relationship with his father. The title of the poem immediately tells the reader that the poem takes place in winter, a time that connotes both coldness and gloominess. Hayden starts his …

A Roman man had many options when it came to sexually gratifying himself. Firstly if he were married there would be his wife, but this certainly did not have to be his only sexual partner. A Roman man would often have slaves “and the possibility that their master might make …

The first thing to say here is that interpretive sociologists do not agree at all that sociology can be a science. In other words, they adopt an anti-positivist position. Now what does this mean? Essentially, it boils down to this: a human being’s conduct in the social world cannot be …

The nature of the insurance relationship, as it is described by Lord Mansfield in Carter v Boehm1, renders important and justifies the recognition by insurance contract law of the doctrine of utmost good faith: “…The special effects by which the contingent chance is to be computed, lie most commonly in …

This thesis seeks to analyse the dynamics behind post-industrial waterfront revitalisation with a view to alternative approaches. Building upon the body of theoretical discourse that has emerged since the 1980’s to explore the emergent pattern of waterfront development globally, and using comparative case studies the thesis will explore the characteristics …