5. What is a geographic coordinate system, and why is it a poor choice for creating maps?…
After reading the articles “Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress” written by Howard Zinn and “The City on the Hill” written by Larry Schweikert and Allen Michael I have analyzed three specific topics/concepts that have been presented by both authors. The first topic that I observed was Christopher Columbus. Howard Zinn’s article was mainly focused on Columbus while Larry S. and Allen M.’s article covered many explorers including Columbus. Howard Zinn more wrote his view on Columbus as a story as the other authors wrote a lot of facts and what you would call “boring” information. Both of the authors included gory details of Columbus’s expedition which didn’t create the same “heroic” effect that I learnt from earlier years. These two inserts also might differ because one is a Patriot’s History of the United States and the other is a People’s History of the United States.…
To make comparisons and analysis of world events easier, the world is divided into geographical regions.…
Dear Vector, In sublette we have the 5 themes of geography and you do too so I challenge you to find out what your themes are. One of our themes is place it talks about our human/political and natural/physical characteristics. The human and political characteristic are the post office and the courthouse they are our connection to the outer world. The natural and physical characteristics are the crops and Mount Sunflower.…
The initial maps centuries ago were scraped into dirt or sculpt on stones. Furthermore, as time developed,…
An effective government is one that will responsibly carry out and defend the wishes and rights of the people, while keeping the country stable and strong. Between the years 1781 to 1789, the Articles of Confederation did not provide the United States with an effective government. The Articles of Confederation lacked adequate powers to deal with economic, foreign commerce and foreign relations. It also did not have the power to enforce its will on the states.…
“The Cartographers” is a very intriguing read, which takes place in the distant future. The future described is a seemingly realistic possibility, which gives the entire story more gravity. The main character, Woods, struggles to balance his high-tech programming job with his real-life relationships. This dilemma grows and grows when he meets a woman named Cynthia, and fails to effectively find time for both her and his profession.…
Information on this map is shown (below) by a circle made up of a core and 3 layers, and also 4 bands which are displayed to the side.…
Ezra Klein for Vox, proposes an article titled 5 Maps and Charts That Will Surprise You. Each map or chart is provided with a description and explanation of them. The majority of these charts apply with foreign countries. Therefore, the five maps contain content regarding America, Africa, Switzerland, Britain, and a specific area in the eastern part of the world. In addition, these charts and maps will compel you with the fascinating data and statistics behind them.…
Questions 2 through 3 are based on this set of graphic scales for a map with a fractional scale of 1:50,000:…
Human tendency to categorize others extends to simple instinct. From the moment a baby is born, the first question already categorizes the baby: boy or girl. In Richard Rodriguez’s Brown: The Last Discovery of America, he addresses these ideals of categorizations, untangling arduous inner conflicts in the process. Due to his diversity, Rodriguez feels unwanted and omitted in his day-to-day life. With a lack of a category for himself, Rodriguez journeys to discover new parts of himself and embrace them, as well as question societal norms. This complicated work commences many arguments that lead to a difficult relationship between the reader and Rodriguez. Rodriguez discusses categories which leads to his personal creation for all the misfits.…
When a choropleth map uses a smaller scale, there is less variety of tones to represent data. For example; Presidential election maps have two colors, red and blue. this means that even if a state is only 1% over half for democratic, and 49% of that state voted for the republican party, the whole state is classified as democratic.…
Pop customs tend to diffuse rapidly and primarily through hierarchical diffusion from the nodes. (Certain fads can diffuse contagiously)…
Ptolemy introduces Geography. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew, in a grid that spanned the globe. Latitude was measured from the equator.…
Explain how the scale provided is designed to show the Earth’s history and show the calculations:…