characters based on how they act during their uncomfortable position. In the short story “Mrs. Sen”‚ Mrs. Sen is unable to find the right balance between her original Indian heritage and American culture‚ while the protagonist in “The Third and Final Continent” is successful in striking the best balance between the two cultures. In the short story‚ “Mrs. Sen”‚ Mrs. Sen only displays her Indian heritage through view of India as well as her material Indian possessions because she did not want to leave
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sign of life on Earth appeared in these large bodies of water. Eventually after millions of years‚ the first species came out of the waters and started to surface to continents of the world. The continents during that time were all conjoined together as a supercontinent‚ known as Pangaea. As another million years went on‚ the continents split apart forming what it looks like currently on a world
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the present continents were originally joined together to form a single supercontinent called Pangea before drifting apart into Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south. Laurasia and Gondwanaland then broke up to form the continental arrangement of the world we know today. He first thought of this idea by noticing that the landmasses on Earth almost fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. He noticed that there was a significant similarity between the matching sides of the continents – how South
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should focus their energy and resources to do something about it. With poverty being so high in Africa it is hindering production and economic development. Africa is the world’s second-largest and second most populous continent. As well as the world ’s poorest inhabited continent‚ as measured by GDP per capita It accounts for about 14.72% of the world’s human population. In 2006‚ 34 of the 50 nations on the United Nations list of least developed countries are in Africa. Many nations in Africa
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first posed by Alfred Wenger in 1912. Is the theory of how the earth lithosphere is made up of many separate pieces of the earth’s crust known as tectonic plates. He put forward the idea that all the earth’s continents were once conjoined in one supercontinent called Pangaea‚ and that these continents were moved by convection currents over a period of many millions of years in to their current positions. These convection currents are made by radioactive energy in the earth’s core causing the semi molten
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In Heart of Darkness‚ the main character‚ Marlow‚ comes across many trials and tribulations when traveling through Africa. During the time between 1876 and 1892‚ Africa was known as the “dark continent” (dark meaning evil.) Marlow’s trials and tribulations don’t only show the evil of Africa‚ but the embodiment of evil in the colonial bureaucracy and Kurtz by the actions they take towards the people/criminals in the community due to imperialism. Africa was like a cigarette‚ a start to destruction
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What makes Australia unique? Australia is a very unique and diverse continent that is an island and consists of one nation. Its physical features and cultural environment make it different to other places. Australia is a multicultural country meaning that it respects all cultures‚ religions‚ ethnicities and races. Such features give Australia a special‚ recognised identity. Because of Australia’s long geographic isolation it has resulted in an exceptional variety of plant and animal life. Most of
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Bantu Migration of the Bantu people throughout Africa The Bantu migrations had a vast influence on the development of the African Continent. They inhabited regions embracing the eastern part of modern Nigeria and the southern part of Cameroon. They settled mostly along the bank of the rivers. They specialized in agriculture‚ animal domestication‚ iron metallurgy and cultural development throughout South Africa. The Bantu people mainly cultivated yams and oil palms‚ but they wore
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similarity quickly as well. People used domesticated crops rather than those that grew naturally. This shows that people easily adapted the Fertile Crescent’s food production. Chapter 10: Eurasia has covered the largest East to West area of any continent. Diamond believes that this is yet another r advantage for Eurasia. Eurasia had “amber fields of grain and spacious skies”. With the New world not having these advantages‚ it slowed diffusion. In the Fertile Crescent‚ plants and animals spread
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Tectonics zones of Pakistan are the Eurasian Plate‚ Arabian Plate and Indian Plate which is part of Indo-Australian Plate. Eurasian Plate: The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia)‚ with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent‚ the Arabian subcontinent‚ and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia. It also includes oceanic crust extending westward to the
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