Scott Russell Sanders, American novelist, responds to an essay by author Salman Rushdie in his novel âStaying Put: Making a Home in a Restless Worldâ. Rushdie maintains the perspective of the human race constantly migrating, rooting themselves in places rather than ideas, and praises these ideals. Sanders chooses to refute this, discussing the dangers of finding solace in ideas as opposed to places. His conflicting opinion to Rushdie may have been what prompted him to write this passage, but the...
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Paul Martin in his writing, Twilight of the mammoths, examines the different viewpoints regarding the extinction of mammals in the late quaternary. He starts with an overview of some ideas for possible reasons of near-time extinctions. For example, some he brought up were disease and even climate change. Martinâs thesis within the reading is that as humans journeyed around the world, they wiped out many of the mammals present therefore humans were the main cause of near-time extinctions through their...
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Since time immemorial human beings aspire for comfort and keep searching better locations to live in throughout their lives. The factors which drive humans to move from one place to another principally include economic, safety, etc. They often struggle in order to be in clover. But this struggle outright comes to an end with the feeling ambivalence and hiraeth and subsequently people feel down in the dumps and are left grief-stricken. There may also be several other causes not listed...
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The overall development of a country depends on the maximum utilization of her people, resource, and technology & this world is a âglobalized industrial worldâ. In present time production is mainly depends on the industry which refers to the production of goods, especially when that production is accomplished with machines & these machines drive by the human resources. Industrialization is the transition to an economy based on the large scale, machine-assisted production of goods by a concentrated, usually urban, the...
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Homo sapiens is part of a group called hominids, which were the earliest humanlike creatures. Based on archaeological and anthropological evidence, we think that hominids diverged from other primates somewhere between 2.5 and 4 million years ago in eastern and southern Africa. Though there was a degree of diversity among the hominid family, they all shared the trait of bipedalism, or the ability to walk upright on two legs. Scientists have several theories about why early hominids evolved. One, the...
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The Indus river flows and start from the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan mountains and a winding curve through the productive lands in the southern plains. Delta river boundary is one of the largest cross boundary rivers in the world with a hydrographic area of about 1km2. Pakistan, India, China, Afghanistan are four countries linked with Indus river delta (IRB). However, the part of Indus river delta present or flow about 61% in Pakistan, 29% in India and approximately 8%...
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Annotated Bibliography Lycett S, Von Cramon-Taubadel N, 2007, Acheulean variability and hominin dispersals: a model-bound approach, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge In Archaeology it is a widely held opinion that bi-facial hand axe technologies evolved in Africa and dispersed to the north and west. Today, however, few formal tests of this hypothesis have been presented. Here, in this peer-reviewed publication, the authors use a combination of morphometrics, cultural transmission theory, and a dispersal...
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Migration is one the most prominent factor of population. Migration effects the population of a country in both right and wrong factors.AS it have positive and negative impact on the population and also on the countryâs other factors, for example: Poverty, climate changes, development etc. These factors have influence on the people of the country. In further, we will discuss these factors in both positive and negative aspects that how they are affecting the countryâs conditions .As the recent migrant...
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The dominant movement of individuals within the mega-deltas of Tamil Nadu is from agriculture-dominated rural areas to urban settlements, driven by growing opportunities, but leading to new human development challenges.Human development can be viewed as the process of achieving optimum slevels of health and well being. The main goal of this article is to identify the factors related to the decision to migrate taken by economic outcome. Despite an outsized growth in domestic and international migration and remittances in recent...
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