Essays on Geography & Travel

This delay in marriage will also mean that Singaporean women will start to conceive at a later age (Thang 87). According to the Singapore’s Current Population Trends (Tan 5), the average age of Singaporeans having their first child have went up to over 28 years…

Singapore is an epitome of a success story in which the burgeoning population boom was curbed efficiently. Family planning had become imperative due to the strain on scarce land resources and possible diminishing economic prospects for the budding independent nation. This fuelled the state to…

The fertility rate in China is historically declined from the 1960s to today. In generally, China’s fertility rate reached the highest point as roughly 6.2 children per family in the 1960s. Start from the 1970s, the Chinese government started to implement several fertility policies for…

Statement of the Issue The Crimean Peninsula is located between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, facing the Black Sea. Tension on the peninsula intensified when Russia federation sent armed forces upon it to “stabilise conflicts” during the 2014 Ukraine Revolution, and, by March 2015, annexed…

Since the 1940s Russia’s been in the spotlight when it comes to a global power house in the 20th century. From the Cold War era, when Russia threatened western countries with nuclear war, to the Cuban Missile Crisis which was the closest any country was…

During the most peaceful time period in recent history one country fights to demolish what the world’s nations have fought so hard to build and maintain, a harmonious peaceful world. The Russian Federation is attempting to re-acquire it’s previous Soviet Era role of strength and…

The conflict in Donbas, since 2014, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine have resulted in the deaths of more than thirteen thousand people, most of them members of the Ukrainian troops and separatist fighters (“Death Toll Up To 13,000 In Ukraine Conflict, Says UN Rights Office”)….

According to Brett Bowden, civilization is understood as an advanced state of a human society containing highly developed forms of government, culture, industry, and common social norms. Ancient civilizations such as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt had many factors that influenced them to develop to…

The history of law is one of a long-standing tradition, periodically reinvigorated by innovative people making changes that still affect legal procedures today. Although many people have made changes to legal practise over the centuries, three individuals, in particular, were absolutely the most foundational and…

Many early civilizations shared many similarities in the early periods of human history. Out of the civilizations that we had learned about in the first half of the semester, China and Mesopotamia come to mind since they had shared many similarities with one another. China…

“Travelling– It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”– Ibn Battuta Travelling is the best experience anyone could pass by. At one winter break, I decided to travel to Luxor and Aswan. I was fourteen years old; I was extremely excited because it…

Football, or Soccer as it is known in these parts, is that the sport of choice in Israel country. There’re the highest teams that do most of the winning situated within the larger cities and teams of Tel Aviv, Haifa and infrequently Jerusalem with the…

Israel and Palestine have been locked in a conflict since before Israel became a state in 1948. There is no possible end in sight to the conflict, as neither side will offer many concessions in order to get a peace deal done. The question remains,…

Juan Flores is the author of the essay “The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity” from his book Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. In the essay, Flores examines Puerto Rican immigrants/migrants and their experience of moving from mainland Puerto Rico to an urban city…

Although corruption is a universal phenomenon, Latin America and Brazil, particularly, have evoked global attention in terms of corruption. Brazil is often mentioned in the media for its numerous corrupt issues since the military dictatorship ceased in 1985. And though recent investigations into corrupt practices…