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Mafic Dikes of NE Kaapvaal craton, geochemistry and cross cutting relationship ages
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Mafic Dikes of NE Kaapvaal craton, geochemistry and cross cutting relationship ages
Swarms in the dykes may be further defined as the large geological feature that consists of major groups of linear and parallel dikes creates an overlying intrusion within the continental crust with a radial orientation. Several to about hundreds of dikes are emplaced marginally during the intrusive event that occurs once, and they are magmatic and stratigraphic. When such dike, swarms form a large igneous state they might be at one time the cause or origin of a volcanic state. In some areas such as the Archean and paleoproterozoic terrains, mafic dike swarm occurrence is referenced often as pure evidence. This is because of the activity in the mantle plume, which is associated with abnormal temperatures in the mantle.
Dike swarms may have a wide extension of over 400 km (249 mi) in both width and length. The Mackenzie dike swarm located halfly in the Canadian shields in the west is well known as the largest dike swarm in the whole world. It is more than 500 km (311 mi) wide and 3,000 km (1,864 mi) long. However the numbers of huge dike swarms on earth are at a lower level of about 25 only, yet the primary bisection of the most huge swarms is at a poor recognition all over the world. The reasons for this being the age factor and varioust activities of the tectonic (Vel’Azquez and Riccomini et al. 18).Different swarms were established and developed at different times, and on different reasons and current trends of the world. The evidences viable in this sect show the differences.
Swarm is collectively referring to a certain behavior shown by different animals, insects, people or any other group of the same kind that puts them together, for example, migrating together or milling about a very same point (O’loan and Evans 99). In this text, we deal with the trends or patterns of different swarms of dikes in different countries relating them to age, cross cutting relationships, and geochemistry.
Specifically we narrow down to the Mafic Dikes of NE Kaapvaal craton in South Africa.
Field evidence is one of the methods used in determining the age approximations of the complex array of the mafic dykes across the Eastern Kaapvaal craton in the South Africa while the analysis of these trends in the dikes and also the character of petrology of some dyke samples forming the other (Klausen and S”Oderlund et al. 501–522).
A short analytical paper of Abraham Lincolns A House Divided
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A short analytical paper of Abraham Lincoln’s “A House Divided”
The House Divided Speech was addressed by Abraham Lincoln on June 1958. He delivered the speech upon his acceptance of Illinois Republican Party’s nomination as the senator of the state. Thus the speech became a very important launching campaign for his success in politics thus giving him a national limelight that saw him the elections to the presidency in 1860.The speech primarily addressed on the issue of slavery in America. Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech aimed at establishing his strong beliefs towards the acts of slavery. The speech was also meant to point out a differentiating factor of beliefs from Stephen Douglas and the rest of the top governmental officials who seemed to practice corruption in their transactions.
According to Abraham Lincoln, “A House divided against itself cannot stand”. This was the major crucial theme of Abraham Lincoln’s speech. From this important statement,Licoln meant that the American nation could not in whatever terms or state face a positive survival phase when it was composed of a state of half-slavery and half-free. He meant that only one of those two states could only exist. Thus his bold statement was that he expected that the division that existed had to cease so as to embrace success and good governance.
Lincoln’s speech helped rouse to the people of America the recognition of the extent to which slavery had gone. Lincoln’s speech is still relevant in this 21st century in that even today, each nation should embrace unity in all its undertakings whether political, social and economic. He believed that the ideals of a nation with freedom for all could not have a chance of coexistence whether socially, morally or in legal terms under one nation. Thus slavery should either be accepted among all people or be universally denied.
A universal truth is clearly bears a clear significance from Lincoln’s statement to the extent that such a statement even pervades a lot of importance to the modern society and even the governments in power today. Such relevance can be clearly seen in the experiences in Sudan. Continued irreconcilable differences in culture and religion against the people of Sudan saw Southern Sudan seceding to become the republic of South Sudan. Such success for secession bears credit from the prophetic work of Abraham Lincoln. A division had always existed between the people from Northern Sudan who were associated with Muslim religion and the people from the Southern Sudan who were associated with Christianity. This scenario bred a situation of ethnic and cultural differences between the two states to the extent where secession could be avoided.
Even today, the American nation is still faced with challenging political divisions and differences especially between the parties of the Republicans and the Democrats. The unwillingness of the two parties to arise to compromised solutions has always been evident in most of the major recent crises facing the nation. Clear evidence is the recent crisis on the debt ceiling where the Republicans were on the favor of maintaining cuts on spending as opposed to the Democrats who were advocating for increase in taxes so as to increase revenue collection in the country. Further differences saw a compromised situation of debt ceiling being arrived at as the solution. This led to the country facing an economic disaster as a result of the oppositions from the two strong political parties.
In the recent world, the institution of marriage can be compared to the speech of Abraham Lincoln. Marriage is a union of two people who are bound to each other by law. Division is prone to occur in a marriage situation in case of a divorce. For the married partners to embrace endured togetherness and unity in their marriage, they must appreciate common interests of concerns in their practices. In case one of the partners dissent from the unity and togetherness set up, the marriage is susceptible to division brought about by breaking of the legal bonds that hold the marriage partnership in unison. Continued lack of an amicable compromised solution between the two conflicting partners will thus lead to separation. Continued separation will see the two partners seek a divorce in a court of law and the marriage will fail completely. Most marriages nowadays are failing as a result of continued disagreements of interests between the married couple. As per words of Lincoln that a divide house cannot stand, thus the divided marriage partnership cannot even endure survival thus it breaks up.
Even today, divisions in groups have been as a result of continued differences among the uniting groups. Humans have a tendency to incline towards the protection of their interest’s ad favors of their perceived groups. Such favourism makes them advocate fully for their interests posing a challenging opposing side to the interests of their unperceived groups. Many nations today are faced with such opposing groups having differing interests and ideals. People advocating for similar ideals tend to create strong ties of loyalty and even alliances crating a boundary to the opposing group or alliance. Existence of the two opposing groups as a whole sees each group maintain conflicting interests. Continued disagreement leads to one group conquer the other resulting to a failing side and a winning side.Ultimatey such results create division in the nations.
Thus Abraham Lincoln’s works from the speech “A House Divided” bears a lot of significance and relevance in our modern world.
Book Critique The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.
Book Critique: The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.
Jada Franklin
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Lane Nevils
American History
4/25/2022
Introduction
Mr. Thomas Jefferson served as the third president of the United States and is regarded to be one of the country’s Founding Fathers. He was born in Virginia in 1743 and died in Virginia in 1826. He was the driving force behind the establishment of the University of Virginia, and he was a well-known polyglot who excelled in a variety of fields, including horticulture, architecture, politics, archeology, paleontology, music, invention, and serving as the university’s first president, among others. He had an infinite supply of energy and had not wasted a single second of his 83 years on this earth, which was a record for him. ‘The Mind of Thomas Jefferson,’ written by Peter Onuf, is a series of articles in which he attempts to undermine the president’s moral character. In his book The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Peter Onuf claims unambiguously that the former president of the United States was a man of questionable character due to his many contradictions, which he attributes to his own personal beliefs. (Onuf & Ebrary, 2007)
Several "contradictions" were noted by Peter Onuf, a former Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, who says in his book The Mind of Thomas Jefferson that Jefferson was a man of doubtful character as a result of his multiple "contradictions." As a result of his multiple "contradictions," Onuf says that Jefferson was a man of doubtful character. However, a close reading of Onuf’s writings leads to a dead end for Jeffersonian scholars. As described in his works, Jefferson was an enigma, and his writings show him as an indescribably complicated guy about whom scholars know nothing. Even in the face of this, the public’s need for Jefferson-related literature motivates historians to write on the historical figure. As a consequence, it seems that everything is acceptable, or at least virtually permissible. To paraphrase Onuf, the single most important principle for the best research is that writers should seek to create "potential Jeffersons" in their works—Jeffersons who are human rather than superhuman—in order to achieve excellence.
It is not always obvious what Onuf is saying, and he speaks in vague and confusing terms. He nonetheless manages to give some intriguing insights into Jefferson’s intellectual life, despite his limitations. He believes that the less well-known, private Jefferson – the Jefferson whom few people were familiar with – holds the key to comprehending all of the quirks and contradictions of the guy who was the subject of his investigation. (Onuf & Ebrary, 2007) As part of his expertly woven alternative interpretation of Jefferson (perhaps the most iconic of American icons), "Onuf places him in his proper historical context while simultaneously creating a modern, contemporary framework within which to understand and interpret Jefferson’s complicated legacy. Onuf’s Jefferson is perhaps the most iconic of American icons."
In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and his time as President of the United States of America are shown as a whole, as is Jefferson’s personal life. Currently available information backdrops, which are regularly employed to evaluate Jefferson’s mental and moral downfall circumstances, are being used to dismantle the notion that Jefferson is an opacity in his human being. When Jefferson had a vision of an uncertain future, Onuf devised a series of interrogations to figure out what was going on in his thoughts at the time. The results were shocking. Thomas Jefferson performs a comprehensive review of all relevant and readily available material in order to arrive at his findings. Because of his contributions to the formation of an American vision that is relevant to contemporary political culture, Jefferson may be seen as a model for future generations of political leaders. (Onuf & Ebrary, 2007)
There is also a feeling of peculiarity in the society as seen by the restrained parts of Jefferson’s personality that he worked very hard to bring out of him. Particularly intriguing is his argument that Jefferson’s philosophical character can be shown nowhere more clearly than in his support for the institution of slavery, which is puzzling given Jefferson’s intellectual training. Along with re-igniting the argument between historical and contemporary perspectives, Onuf is also providing an original take on the connection between Americans and one of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson. A broad variety of issues are addressed by Jefferson in his writings. There is a lighthearted tone to some of them, which makes reading the book a simplified and lightweight experience overall. It also contains vignettes that help to depict the atmosphere in which he lived as well as his perceptions of what was essential in life at the time.
Conclusion
All in all, Onuf’s claim that public uproar leads to historians such as himself constructing representations of Jefferson’s character and analyzing Jefferson’s moral character is a hunk of horse feathers, to put it mildly. Unlike fiction writers, historians do not make up stories out of whole cloth; true history is founded on facts and does not make any exceptions in reaching its findings. Jefferson piques the interest of historians because they believe that the man behind the books can be tracked down and engaged with. The fact that Jefferson was able to obtain insight and empathy via intellect, experience, and the senses at the end of the day shows him to be a self-deceptive chameleon who was completely out of touch with his true character. As a result, Jeffersonian scholarship today may be as varied in its approaches as Jefferson himself was in his own thinking about it. Everyone, regardless of their background or political allegiance, appears to have something relevant to say about such a sterile, unreachable persona.
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Onuf, P. S., & Ebrary, I. (2007). The mind of Thomas Jefferson. University Of Virginia Press.