Essays on Geography

Abstract Did you know each year billions of pounds of trash and other dangerous pollutants enter the ocean? Where does this pollution come from and where does it go when we’re done with it? How marine life is being affected by climate change? Most of the debris that is littered by humans ends up on...

Abqaiq and Khurais strikes on the oil processing facilities in Saudi Arabia likely represent the latest in a pattern of actions by the Islamic Republic of Iran to escalate tensions in the Persian Gulf. and the impact of this attack has not just been felt locally. After Iran fired 22 missiles at Iraq military bases...

Abstract This paper is an attempt to analyse the performance of four major machine-learning paradigms applied to modelling the occurrence of traffic accidents. The methods considered are support vector machines, decision trees, K-nearest neighbour and logistic regression. For the greatest possible accident reduction effects with limited budgetary resources, it is important that measures be based...

Abstract Marriages in India, as opposed to western countries, have always been a religious and sacred event that was looked upon to creating an inseparable bond between a man and woman. However, in the recent years, divorce rates in India are increasing; thus giving way for expectations from both parties to claim what was or...

Tackling poverty has become a central focus in Scottish education over the years. In the past decade, it has been given great prominence within government policy and attainment initiatives to support every child to ensure they succeed in life and ensure equity of achievement in education. However, Mowat (2017) argued that the current standing policies...

Welfare pluralism has had a major impact on the UK and for social and public policy. Since 1979 welfare pluralism has changed the whole welfare system, for good and bad. The meaning out welfare pluralism will be outline with regards to each of the four sectors and the implications welfare pluralism has made for social...

When we open a discussion regarding poverty, we first have to understand what poverty is. The Scottish Poverty Information Unit defines poverty as “’Poverty is defined relative to the standards of living in a society at a specific time. People live in poverty when they are denied an income sufficient for their material needs and...

According to Fenger, the type of government welfare states arrangement in Eastern European consist of Soviet Union (FSU) Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and other developing States like Georgia and Romania. These countries have gone through a lot of political and economic transitions in comparison with all the other Countries. Hemerijck and Ferrera claimed that immediately...

This essay will discuss the British Welfare State of the United Kingdom and its history. The British Welfare State of the United Kingdom established in the 1900s and early 1910s and consists of consumption by the government of the United Kingdom designed to make or better improve health, education, employment and social security. The British...

I was privileged to live in Sokoto state, a north-western part of Nigeria for three years where I see hundreds of children that roam the streets without knowing what to eat or having an idea of what their next meal could be and with the feelings of maybe they will survive the following day or...