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The Gobi Desert, 2007.
This paper looks at the past and the future of the Gobi Desert.
836 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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In this article, the writer examines the Gobi Desert, which is one of the most striking natural phenomena in the world. The writer explains that it is the world's northernmost desert and home to the world's southernmost glacier in the Gobi's Yol Valley. The writer points out that the Gobi Desert is situated across the border between Mongolia and China. The writer notes that despite the general conception of a desert as full of sand, much of the Gobi desert is only barren rock. The writer concludes that as students we can look to the Gobi Desert as a unique source of knowledge about geography in one of the most extreme environments in the world. The writer notes that the Gobi Desert can provide the thoughtful researcher with a wealth of information about how landscapes are shaped and manipulated by almost purely natural forces.
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"Many of the geographical features of the Gobi Desert were formed because of the effects of plate tectonics over millions of years. At one time, the Gobi Desert region was at the convergence of two tectonic plates, a fact that helped shape the unique geographic features of the region. More recently in geological terms, the Gobi Desert region has felt the effect of the Indian subcontinent tectonic plate moving northward into Asia. While this movement has had the immediate effect of driving the Himalayas upward, the pressure of this convergence has consistently spilled to the east and west. It has fractured the Gobi landscape and helped drive much of the region up into higher elevations. When we consider the major geologic and geographic features of the region, plate tectonics must be seen as a primary cause in their formation."
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Desert Shield/Desert Storm Strategy, 1993.
U.S. military objectives & success analyzed according to Fabyanic & Principles of War models. Looks at policy, doctrine, technology, offensive, mass and maneuver.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 21 sources, $ 127.95
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" One of the major objectives in the U.S. military strategy of the air campaign during Desert Shield/Desert Storm was the quick attainment of air superiority over Kuwait and southern Iraq. With control of this airspace, U.S. and coalition air forces were virtually unimpeded in the attainment of their other major goals: destroying Iraq's command and control structure as well as its facilities for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare; cutting off Iraq's major supply lines; and providing air support to ground troop operations (Dugan, 1991, p. 26). In order to attain air superiority, the allies needed to knock out all of Iraq's defensive and offensive air capabilities. This was accomplished by means of saturation bombing and the use of electronic surveillance and anti.radar systems. A key element in the success of this strategy was the use of a large number of allied.."
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Environmental History in "Desert Solitaire", 2008.
A discussion of environmental history and American values as represented in Edward Abbey's book "Desert Solitaire".
1,830 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines Edward Abbey's book "Desert Solitaire", a personal depiction of the American West, as a natural scientist, adventurer and philosopher. By immersing himself deep into the heart of the desert, Abbey paints a gritty and down-to-Earth portrait of the Arches National Park that succeeds in representing the mysterious allure of the West. The paper finds that Abbey's gruff authority gives voice to the frustrations of a great many Americans during the time in which he authored this journal, published in 1968. Abbey's work pointedly reflects the wedge driven between the author's own American values and the violent thrust of modernity. The paper call's "Desert Solitaire" a testament to the ability which each individual has to reclaim his nativism from the corrupting impact of consumerism, war and social conformity. Finally, the paper concludes that the book depicts the 1960s as an era of transitional importance in terms of America's future direction regarding conservation, resource management and environmental sensitivity, divided sharply by a domestic clash of cultures.
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"The author's sense of humor sustains a work throughout which could otherwise come off as pedantic and preachy. Indeed, Abbey does not shy away from making explicit statements of purpose regarding his views on all manner of pertinent topic. This is hardly surprising for the man's whose activism preceded his authorship of the book. His prominence began in earnest in 1962, when he fought in vain against proposals to build a damn in Arizona's Glen Canyon. The author "had made two raft trips through Glen Canyon before the gates of the dam were closed" and viewed its now flooded passes as a bastion to American nature now lost forever to the energy demands of modernity. (Duryee, 2) Of most evident importance in his work is the overarching principle of naturalism as embodied by his time spent apart from the vagaries of Western capitalism. This is a contrast which he represents with a juxtaposed panorama of his surroundings from his mountain post."
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"Edge of Taos Desert", 2002.
An analysis of "Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality" by Mabel Dodge Luhan on the geography of the area.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss the book "Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality" by Mabel Dodge Luhan and seek to understand why this author is so entranced with this geographic site. By revealing the people that lived there in the time that the book was written, we can see why the author used this book as a sort of return to her self in the scope of the desert. The scope of this paper will be to understand why she chose to see the desert as a home, rather than a barren and lifeless place.
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"Desert Soitaire", 2002.
An analysis of Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire" and a look at some of the values expressed in this work.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss Edward Abbey's book entitled "Desert Solitaire" and begin to understand the motives that lie beneath the book's seemingly barren landscape. By visualizing Abbey's philosophy, we can see why he wrote this book in the way he intended to. This analysis will argue for the "values" that Abbey places within the text about the region of desert that he lived in and find out what he meant by these values within the scope of the book.
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Desert Tortoise, 2002.
The effects of military training on the desert tortoise.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 12 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper discusses the life cycle, habits, diet and other information related to Desert Tortoise. The paper also discusses about National Training Center and its effects over the life of desert tortoise which has been declared an endangered species on April 2, 1990 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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"Desert of the Heart", 2002.
Discusses the theme of betrayal and finding one's true self in Jane Rule's book "Desert of the Heat" on a lesbian love affair.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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Jane Rule's book, "Desert of the Heart", written in 1986, represents one of the finest and best appreciated works of lesbian literature. It is the story of a woman, Evelyn Hall, who escapes from a controlling and unhappy marriage to a mentally ill man by going to Reno, Nevada for a divorce. While there, Evelyn meets Ann Child, a woman fifteen years younger than herself, who is free spirited and a comfortable lesbian who absolutely refuses to hold in any of the powerful emotions that are rising within her. The two women slowly become lovers which complicates and eases the tensions around her looming court date. Evelyn and Ann look to each other to find answers as to how long their relationship can last and how they can find themselves together when not in the strange world of divorces and altered realities of Reno. The central theme of the book is one common to most self-exploratory literature - that of self-discovery. The point of the novel is to demonstrate the struggle that Evelyn must experience in order to find her true self. Just as Jesus could not have become a martyr without Judas' betrayal, Evelyn could not become herself, her true lesbian self, without first being betrayed by marriage and heterosexuality. It is the purpose of this paper to examine this theme and its elements as they appear in the novel, "Desert of the Heart".
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Operation Desert Storm, 2003.
A review of the Gulf War otherwise known as Operation Desert Storm, as a catalyst for Islamist opposition to the Saudi Arabian royal family.
1,334 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper takes a look at the role of Saudi Arabia in Operation Desert Storm. According to the paper, the Saudi royal family was harshly criticized as being a traitor to Muslim countries and Muslim values, for the role it played in the Gulf War. The paper goes on to discuss how, due to the fact that Saudi Arabia is home to some of Islam's most sacred shrines, the royal family's acceptance of US military troops on Saudi territory was not regarded well by Islamic communities.
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"Agreeing to become the ally of US and the coalition forces during the Gulf War was seen by extremist movements and Islamic opponents of the Saudi royal family as an act of betrayal of Islamic values. Perhaps if the terrorist cells that later terrorized the world were not belonging to Saudi Arabia and were not operating from its territory, Saudi involvement in the war wouldn't have been seen as an act of betrayal. But since this was not the case, the royal family was regarded as fraternizing with the enemy of these terrorist groups and so, the position against the royal family was strong and firm."
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"Desert Solitaire" and "Ceremony", 2002.
A comparison of "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey and "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper is on the texts "Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko". It includes the way both Abbey and Tayo (from Silko's Ceremony) share the impulse. It also discusses how this process works for both of them and whether it functions in the same way or both. What does it mean for each to identify with nature? Why do they wish to do so? How fully do they succeed, and what do they learn about the limits that they confront to this effort?
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The US Involvement in Desert Storm, 2007.
An analysis of the factors contributing to the US involvement in the military Operation Desert Storm.
2,172 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper discusses the factors that influenced the United States to become involved in Operation Desert Storm. The paper describes issues of international law, the US' dependency on oil, regional alliances and the need to satisfy an issue of prestige. It then discusses how all of these reasons contributed to the US involvement in the military operations involving Kuwait.
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"Aside from the geostrategic, political or economic reasons that would have completely justified the intervention of the American forces against Saddam, there was also a matter of prestige for the newly crowned leader of the free world. The US had now become the only super power, thus defeating its fifty-year foe, the USSR. Even if the actual confirmation would come late in 1992, the Cold War had ended with the victory of capitalism over communism, democracy over authoritarianism, the US over the USSR. Still, this state of fact had to be visible to the international community as well. Thus, a strong military deployment of forces in the name of a just cause, that of defending another state, was the ultimate proof of the power the US enjoyed following demise of the Soviet Union."
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"Cadillac Desert", 2005.
An analysis of Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper provides an analysis of "Cadillac Desert", by Marc Reisner. It incorporates ideas of environmental justice, social justice. It explores the purpose of the book, which is to show the historical mismanagement of water in the American West. The author also addresses the issue of the scarcity of water.
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"John Wesley Powell was an early visionary regarding the ecology of the American West. He believed that cities should not be built in deserts and that the only development that should take place in an area was that which could be ..."
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Robert Frost's "Desert Places", 2000.
An analysis of Robert Frost's poem "Desert Places" according to X. J. Kennedy's analytic categories.
1,765 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, $ 56.95
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An analysis of Robert Frost's poem "Desert Places" according to X. J. Kennedy's analytic categories concentrating on imagery, but also demonstrating how Frost weaves poetic elements into an artistic whole merging rhythm, rhyme, and symbol with imagery.
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"Robert Frost's poem "Desert Places" provides an excellent example of how a poem may be analyzed according to analytic categories devised by X. J. Kennedy. This discussion will primarily concentrate on the imagery of Frost's poem, but will also show how a poetic genius weaves together the various elements of poetry, as defined in Kennedy's analytic categories, to form an artistic whole. What happens in this poem is that other categories such as rhythm, rhyme, and symbol merge with the imagery to create a unique entity -- sixteen lines of lyric verse capable of traveling from the heart and mind of one man to the innermost depths of millions of humans far distant in time and place."
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"Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams", 2002.
A book review of the book "Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams," by Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff.
2,242 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 69.95
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The paper discusses the author Frances Manuel's tribal origins, and the way that anthropologist Deborah Neff wrote the book from Manuel's spoken words, and so sometimes these words appear as poetry, trying to capture the way Manuel actually spoke them. The oral history portrays the conflicts experienced by Manuel as she tried to reconcile her native Indian world with contemporary American life in Tucson, Arizona.
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"It is quite obvious that the book owes much of its clarity and detail to the relationship that grew between Deborah Neff and Frances Manuel. Neff notes they were more alike than different (Manuel and Neff xxxviii), and it is quite clear Manuel not only trusted Neff with the story of her life, but she felt comfortable with her, comfortable enough to relate her stories into an ever present tape recorder. The two women were friends before they began working on this project and that of course would account for the camaraderie that is clearly present throughout the book. These two women enjoyed each other's company, and respected each other, which gave them the freedom and ability to share their stories, and collaborate to share them with the world."
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Motif of the Desert in "The English Patient", 2000.
An examination of the motif of the desert in "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaajte, as a parallel to life itself, not just for the main character, but for humanity.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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"After spending ten years in the desert, the English patient is a shadow of his former self. Everything the English patient experiences in the desert is very short lived, and this is compared to the difficulty in finding an ample amount of water. The English patient speaks of water as the " . . . ghost between your hands and your mouth" and notes that "In the desert you celebrate nothing but water" (19; ch. 1 | 23; ch. 1). This strengthens the idea that nothing in the desert is permanent, and everything is valuable. In this sense, the desert represents not only the English patient's life, but life in general."
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"Cadillac Desert", 2004.
This paper analyzes the documentary film, "Cadillac Desert", directed by John Else, about the amazing story of water in the American West.
1,315 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that the first of two parts of the film concentrate on William Mulholland's dream to bring water to a thirsty Los Angeles, while the second part concentrates on the Colorado River, once mighty, now tamed for tap water. The author believes that this film makes the viewer stop and think about where water really comes from and how much we really use every day. The paper relates that the film also shows the small Hopi tribe, who lives on the mesas of northern Arizona and has survived for thousands of years as an agricultural society with no irrigation or water other than rainfall.
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"In the 1980s' Mono Lake became a battle cry between Northern and Southern California. California's aqueduct tapped into the lake, and drained it nearly 40 feet. This desert lake with its' unusual tufa formations was in danger of disappearing, and local residents and environmentalists waged a vocal campaign against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. They won. Los Angeles had to leave Mono Lake alone, and the lake is gradually making a recovery. "Mulholland's Dream" shows the desperate need for water in the American West, but it also shows the political influence of a powerful man and a big city over small town farmers. Mulholland took advantage of Owens Valley residents for the good of Los Angeles. Politically, Mulholland was a nightmare, yet he was a visionary who saw the water needs of Southern California long before most did, and knew how to create a workable, if not politically correct, solution."
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