Essays on Exploration

The letter served as Europe’s first introduction to this new land and shaped their views on the indigenous people for many years.Most of Europe thought of the people as barbarians until a french philosopher, Michel di Montaigne, wrote an essay completely rejecting that idea and…

What exactly are “imaginative geographies”? They are ideas or knowledge about a place, knowledges that ascribe meanings to places (qualities or feelings). Imaginative geographies correspond to qualities or feelings, rather than to reality. They are distinct from empirical (or positive) knowledge. Mimi Sheller’s work on…

The Question of Choice At the beginning of Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, Ruth says to Andrew, “There’s a choice…You know that every time you head out like you do… With that boy” (5). Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, written by…

Discovering the Definition of Family When you ask people what family means to them, there are high chances you will get a variety of answers. Some of them may be similar while other answers might be distant in terms of their definitions. One definition of…

Advancement of modern technology in the past centuries has led to the transition of medicine from a caring and service-oriented model to a curative-oriented model. Consequently, advanced technology has contributed to phenomenal advancement in healthcare, and hence giving the ability of prolonged life. Nonetheless, psychiatrists…

It is important to understand the situation of the Botswana before and after independence to fully understand how far they came, where their accomplishments lay and how the various successful factors came to be. Once this has been achieved it is then safe to look…

The ‘discovery’ of ‘the Orient’ by Marco Polo and the new world by explorers such as Las Casas and Christopher Colombus laid the foundations for the way in which Europe came to ‘know’ the other, this is evident particularly in Colombus’ writing who, on arrival…

Research on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks is an exceptionally intriguing wonder, as each exploration is with a result of the assessments, profound understanding to the bare essential of how the specially appointed systems administration frameworks work. When we prelude the past examinations the core lies…

The notion of colonialism and imperialism comes from a need that was apparently deemed so vital that white complacent men who used the color of their skin as superiority over other races, ravaged the homes of thousands of people while enslaving them, raping them, and…