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1、2.1 Resources and Industrialism in CanadaWhile the much-anticipated expansion of the western frontier was unfolding in accordance withthe designof the National Policy,a new northern frontier was opening up toenhancetheprospectsof Canadian industrialdevelopment. Longthe preserveof the fur trade,theCa

2、nadianShield and the westernCordilleras becamea treasury ofminerals,timberandhydroelectric power in the late19th and early 20thcenturies. Asearly as1883,CPRCanadian Pacific Railway construction crews blasting through the rugged terrain of northernOntario discovered copper and nickel deposits in the

3、vicinity of Sudbury. As refining processes, uses, andmarkets for the metal developed, Sudbury became the worlds largest nickel producer. The building of theTemiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway led to the discovery of rich silver deposits around Cobalt north ofLake Nipissing in 1903 and touched o

4、ff a miningboom that spread northward to Kirkland Lake and the Porcupine district. Although theeconomic importance of these mining operations was enduring, they did not capture the public imagination tothe same extent as the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s.Fortune-seekers from all parts of the

5、world flocked to the Klondike and Yukon River valleys to pan for goldstarting in 1896. At the height of the gold rush in 1898, the previously unsettled subarctic frontier had apopulation of about 30,000, more than half of which was concentrated in the newly established town ofDawson. In the same yea

6、r, the federal government created the Yukon Territory, administered by an appointedcommissioner, in an effort to ward off the prospect of annexation to Alaska. Even if the economic significanceof the Klondike strike was somewhat exaggerated and short-lived, the tales of sudden riches, heroic and tra

7、gicexploits, and the rowdiness and lawlessness of the mining frontier were immortalized through popular fictionand folklore, notably the poetic verses of Robert W. Service.Perhaps less romantic than the mining booms, the exploitation of forest and water resources was just as vitalto national develop

8、ment. The Douglas fir, spruce, and cedar stands of British Columbia along with the whitepine forests of Ontario satisfied construction demands on the treeless prairies as well as in the growing citiesand towns of central Canada and the United States. British Columbias forests also supplied lumber to

9、 Asia. Inaddition, the softwood forest wealth of the Cordilleras and the Shield was a valuable source of pulpwood forthe development of the pulp and paper industry, which made Canada one of the worlds leadingexporters of newsprint. Furthermore, the fast flowing rivers of the Shield and Cordilleras c

10、ould readily beharnessed as sources of hydroelectric power, replacing coal in the booming factories of central Canada aswell as in the evolving mining and pulp and paper industries.The age of electricity under public ownership and control was ushered in by the creation of theOntario Hydro-Electric P

11、ower Commission (now Ontario Hydro) in 1906 to distribute and eventually to producethis vital source of energy.Western settlement and the opening of the northern resource frontier stimulated industrial expansion,particularly in central Canada. As the National Policy had intended, a growing agricultu

12、ral population in theWest increased the demand for eastern manufactured goods, thereby giving rise to agricultural implementsworks, iron and steel foundries, machine shops, railway yards, textile mills, boot and shoe factories, andnumerous smaller manufacturingenterprises that supplied consumer good

13、s. By keeping out lower-priced foreign manufactured goods, the hightariff policies of the federal government received much credit for protectingexisting industries and encouraging the creation of new enterprises. large American industrial firms openedbranches in Canada, and the governments of Ontari

14、o and Quebec aggressively urged them on by offeringbonuses, subsidies, and guarantees to locate new plants within their borders. Canadian industrial enterprisesbecame increasingly attractive to foreign investors, especially from the United States and Great Britain. Muchof the over $600 million of Am

15、erican capital that flowed into Canada from 1900 to 1913 was earmarked formining and the pulp and paper industry, while British investors contributed near $1.8 billion, mostly in railwaybuilding, business development, and the construction of urban infrastructure. As a result, the gross value ofCanad

16、ian manufactured products quadrupled from 1891 to 1916.2.2 Looking at Theatre HistoryOne of the primary ways of approaching the Greek theatre is through archeology, the systematic study ofmaterial remains such as architecture, inscriptions, sculpture, vase painting, and other forms of decorative art

17、.Serious on-site excavations began in Greece around 1870, but W. D?rpfeld did not begin the first extensivestudy of the Theatre of Dionysus until 1886. Since that time, more than 167 other Greek theatres have beenidentified and many of them have been excavated. Nevertheless, they still do not permit

18、 us to describe theprecise appearance of the skene(illustrations printed in books are conjectural reconstructions), since manypieces are irrevocably lost because the buildings in later periods became sources of stone for other projectsand what remains is usually broken and scattered. That most of th

19、e buildings were remodeled many times hascreated great problems for those seeking to date both the parts and the successive versions. Despite theseToclimbdrawbacks, archeology provides the most concrete evidence we have about the theatre structures of ancientGreece. But, if they have told us much, a

20、rcheologists have not completed their work, and many sites havescarcely been touched.Perhaps the most cuntroversial use of archeological evidence in theatre history is vase paintings, thousands ofwhich have survived from ancient Greece. (Most of those used by theatre scholars are reproduced inMargar

21、ete BiebersThe History of the Greek and RomanTheatre.) Depicting scenes from mythology and daily life, the vases are the most graphic pictorial evidencewe have. But they are also easy to misinterpret. Some scholars have considered any vase that depicts asubject treated in a surviving drama or any sc

22、ene showing masks, flute players, or ceremonials to be validevidence of theatrical practice. This is a highly questionable assumption, since the Greeks made widespreaduse of masks, dances, and music outside the theatre and since the myths on which dramatists drew wereknown to everyone, including vas

23、e painters, who might well depict the same subjects as dramatists withoutbeing indebted to them. Those vases showing scenes unquestionably theatrical are few in number.Written evidence about ancient Greek theatre is often treated as less reliable than archeological evidencebecause most written accou

24、nts are separated so far in time from the events they describe and because theyprovide no information about their own sources. Of the written evidence, the surviving plays are usually treatedas the most reliable. But the oldestsurviving manuscripts of Greek plays datefrom around the tenth century, C

25、.E., some1500years after they were first performed. Since printing did not exist during this time span, copies of plays had tobe made by hand, and therefore the possibility of textual errors creeping in was magnified. Nevertheless, thescripts offer us our readiest access to the cultural and theatric

26、al conditions out of which they came. But thesescripts, like other kinds of evidence, are subject to varying interpretations. Certainly performances embodied amale perspective, for example,since the plays were written, selected, staged, and acted by men. Yet the existing plays feature numerouschorus

27、es of women and many feature strong female characters. Because these characters often seem victimsof their own powerlessness and appear to be governed, especially in the comedies, by sexual desire, somecritics have seen these plays as rationalizations by the male-dominated culture for keeping women

28、segregatedand cloistered.Other critics, however, have seen in these same plays an attempt by male authors to forcetheir male audiences to examine and call into question this segregation and cloistering of Athenian women.By far the majority of written references to Greek theatre date from several hun

29、dred years after the events theyreport. The writers seldom mention their sources of evidence, and thus we do not know what credence to givethem. In the absence of material nearer in time to the events, however, historians have used the accounts andhave been grateful to have them. Overall,historical

30、treatment of the Greek theatre is something like assembling a jigsaw puzzle from which many piecesare missing: historians arrange what they have and imagine (with the aid of the remaining evidence and logic)what has been lost. As a result, though the broad outlines of Greek theatre history are reaso

31、nably clear, manyof the details remain open to doubt.2.3 Geothermal EnergyGeothermal energy is natural heat from the interior of the Earth that is converted to heat buildings andgenerate electricity. The idea of harnessing Earths internal heat is not new. Asearly as 1904, geothermal power was used i

32、n Italy. Today, Earths natural internal heat isbeing used to generate electricity in 21 countries, including Russia, Japan, New Zealand,today receive their electricity from geothermal energy at a cost competitive with energysources. In El Salvador, geothermal energy is supplying 30% of the total ele

33、ctric energy used.However, at the global level, geothermal energy supplies less than 0.15% of the total energysupply.Geothermal energy may be considered a nonrenewable energy source when rates of extraction are greaterthan rates of natural replenishment. However, geothermal energy has itsorigin in t

34、he natural heat production within Earth,and only a small fraction ofthe vast totalresource base is being utilized today. Although most geothermal energy production involves the tapping ofhigh heat sources, people are also using the low-temperature geothermal energy of groundwater in someapplications

35、.$ Geothermal SystemsThe average heat flow from the interior of the Earth is very low, about 0.06 W/m2 . This amount is trivialcompared with the 177 W/m2 from solar heat at the surface in the United States. However, in some areas,heat flow is sufficiently high to be useful for producing energy.For t

36、he most part, areas of high heat flow are associated with plate tectonic boundaries.Oceanic ridge systems (divergent plate boundaries) and areas where mountains are being uplifted andvolcanic island arcs are forming (convergent plate boundaries) are areas where this natural heat flow isanomalously h

37、igh. On the basis of geological criteria, several types of hot geothermal systems (withtemperatures greater than about 80C, or 176F) have been defined, and the resource base is larger thanthat of fossil fuels and nuclear energy combined. A common system for energy development is hydrothermalconvecti

38、on, characterized by the circulation of steam and/or hot water that transfers heat from depths to thesurface.$ Geothermal Energy and the EnvironmentIceland, Mexico, Ethiopia, Guatemala,El Salvador, the Philippines,and the United States.Total worldwide production is approaching9,000 MW (equivalentto

39、nine large moderncoalburning or nuclear power plants)-doublethe amountin 1980. Some 40 millionpeoplethat of otherThe environmental impact of geothermal energy may not be as extensive as that of other sources of energy,but it can be considerable. When geothermal energy is developed at a particular si

40、te, environmental problemsinclude on-site noise, emissions of gas, and disturbance of the land at drilling sites, disposal sites, roads andpipelines, and power plants.Development of geothermal energy does not require large-scale transportation of raw materials or refining ofchemicals, as development

41、 of fossil fuels does. Furthermore, geothermal energy does not produce theatmospheric pollutants associated with burning fossil fuels or the radioactive waste associated with nuclearenergy. However, geothermaldevelopment often does produce considerable thermal pollution from hot waste-waters, which

42、may be salineor highly corrosive, producing disposal and treatment problems.Geothermal power is not very popular in some locations among some people. For instance, geothermalenergy has been produced for years on the island of Hawaii, where active volcanic processes provideabundant near-surface heat.

43、 There is controversy, however, over further exploration and development. NativeHawaiians and others have argued that the exploration and development of geothermal energy degrade thetropical forest as developers construct roads, build facilities, and drill wells. In addition, religious and culturali

44、ssues in Hawaii relate to the use of geothermal energy. For example, some people are offended by using thebreath and water of Pele (the volcano goddess) to make electricity. This issue points out the importance ofbeing sensitive to the values and cultures of people where development is planned.$ Fut

45、ure of Geothermal EnergyAt present, geothermal energy supplies only a small fraction of the electrical energy produced in the UnitedStates. However, if developed, known geothermal resources in the United States could produce about 20,000MW which is about 10% of the electricity needed for the western

46、 states. Geohydrothermal resources not yetdiscovered could conservatively provide four times that amount (approximately 10% of total U.S. electriccapacity), about equivalent to the electricity produced from water power today.2.4 Migration from AsiaThe Asian migration hypothesis is today supported by

47、 most of the scientific evidence. The first hard datalinking American Indians with Asians appeared in the 1980s with the finding thatIndians and northeast Asians share a common and distinctive pattern in the arrangement of the teeth. Butperhaps the most compelling support for the hypothesis comes fr

48、om geneticresearch. Studies comparing the DNA variation of populations around the world consistentlydemonstrate the close genetic relationship of the two populations, and recently geneticists studying a virussequestered in the kidneys of all humans found that the strain of virus carried by Navajos a

49、nd Japanese isnearly identical, while that carried by Europeans and Africans is quite different.The migration could have begun over a land bridge connecting the continents. During the last Ice Age 70,000to 10,000 years ago, huge glaciers locked up massive volumes of water and sea levels were as much

50、 as 300feet lower than today. Asia and North America were joined bya huge subcontinent of icefree, treeless grassland, 750 miles wide. Geologists have named this area Beringia,from the Bering Straits. Summers there were warm, winters were cold, dry and almost snow-free. This was aperfect environment

51、 for large mammals-mammoth and mastodon, bison, horse, reindeer, camel, and saiga (agoatlike antelope). Small bands of Stone Age hunter-gatherers were attracted by these animal populations,which provided them not only with food but with hides for clothing and shelter, dung for fuel, and bones fortoo

52、ls and weapons. Accompanied by a husky-like species of dog, hunting bands gradually moved as far eastas the Yukon River basin of northern Canada, where field excavations have uncovered the fossilizedjawbones of several dogs and bone tools estimated to be about 27,000 years old.Other evidence suggest

53、s that the migration from Asia began about 30,000 years ago-aroundthe same time that Japan and Scandinavia were being settled. This evidence is based on blood type. The vastmajority of modern Native Americans have type O blood and a few have type A, but almost none have type B.Because modern Asian p

54、opulations include all three blood types, however, the migrations must have begunbefore the evolution of type B, which geneticists believe occurred about 30,000 years ago.By 25,000 years ago human communities were established in western Beringia, which is present-day Alaska.But access to the south w

55、as blocked by a huge glacial sheet covering much of what is today Canada. How didthe hunters get over those 2,000 miles of deep ice?The argument is that the climate began to warm with the passing of the Ice Age, and about13,000 B.C.E. glacial melting created an ice-free corridor along the eastern fr

56、ont range of theRocky Mountains. Soon hunters of big game had reached the Great Plains.In the past several years, however, new archaeological finds along the Pacific coast of Northand South America have thrown this theory into question. The most spectacular find, at MonteVerde in southern Chile, pro

57、duced striking evidence of tool making, house building, rock painting, and humanfootprints conservatively dated at 12,500 years ago, long before the highway had been cleared of ice. Manyarchaeologists now believe that migrants moved south in boats along a coastal route rather than overland.These peo

58、ple were probably gatherers and fishers rather than hunters of big game.There were two later migrations into North America. About 5000 B.C.E. the Athapascan orNa-Dene people began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of the continent.Eventually Athapascan speakers, the ancestors of the Nav

59、ajos and Apaches, migrated acrossthe Great Plains to the Southwest. The final migration began about 3000 B.C.E. after Beringiahad been submerged, when a maritime hunting people crossed the Bering Straits in small boats. The Inuits(also known as the Eskimos)colonized the polar coasts of the Arctic, t

60、heYupiks the coast of southwestern Alaska, and the Aleuts the Aleutian Islands.While scientists debate the timing and mapping of these migrations, many Indian people hold to oral traditionsthat include a long journey from a distant place of origin to a new homeland.2.5 Physical and Chemical Properti