were lit. In addition to this‚ the elderly were considered to be the most wise‚ so on New Year’s they were addressed to first. Chinatown has many different cultural traits‚ and because of an intercity location‚ it is always under constant threat. One way it can be affected is via external threats. External threats can impact many ethnic neighborhoods. They can disrupt the established customs residents are used to. One such example is the migration of new people with different cultural heritages. Because
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income and education and who work at jobs that are roughly comparable in prestige. In the small community of Dharavi‚ there are a total of 1 million people. They are all within the same area which means they are very close in a lot of areas. As a way of income‚ each are involved in different jobs‚ but looking at ragpickers they only make one dollar a day. So in one year‚ they would make $365. That isn’t enough to live on‚ but it makes due for them. They live in a different society that views money
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ADVANCED PLACEMENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY READING ASSIGNMENT – FAST FOOD NATION INTRODUCTION to Fast Food Nation (Amazon.com excerpt) On any given day‚ one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant‚ without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American‚ and harmless‚ as apple pie. But the industry ’s drive for consolidation‚ homogenization‚ and speed has radically transformed America ’s diet
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Chapter 3: Outline 1. What is MIGRATION? * Migration is inherently geographical. a) Cyclic Movement- involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. * Commuting the journey from home to work and again takes from minutes to hours and can involves several modes of transportation. * Seasonal Movement – every autumn hundreds of thousands of travelers leave their home in Canada and the northern parts of the United States. a) It
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Chapter 25 Process of fossilization · Moving water can suspend sediment – inorganic particles · Moving water fills into still body of water o Sediment flats to the bottom o Forms a layer o More layers form with different compositions on the bottom of the lake or ocean · Living things in the ocean die and get buried in the sediments in the ocean · A lot of weight and pressure pushing down · The organic material is replaced by rocks – mineralization resulting
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over other countries. Ex: Nazis Nationality Distinctive national or ethnic character Ex: Chinese Nation-state A political entity (a state) associated with a particular cultural entity (a nation) Ex: Japan Race A categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics Ex: African American Racism Frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals‚ it is an ideology of difference that ascribes significance and meaning
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Chapter 8 Annexation: Incorporation of a territory into another geo-political entity. Antarctica: Southernmost continent in the world. It has no permanent residents and doesn’t belong to any country. Apartheid: Afrikaans for apartness‚ it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over the black majority. Balkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation
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Chapter 10 focuses on the environment and development. Many of the effects of development impact the environment greatly‚ and these negative externalities tend to fall on poor people who don’t have the resources to escape the conditions. The chapter opens with a quote from Nicholas Stern that reads‚ “The poorest developing countries will be hit earliest and hardest by climate change‚ even though they have contributed little to causing the problem.” I wanted to talk about this quote and what exactly
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Chapter 1 -What is Scale? What is the difference between local and global scale? -What are the three methods of scale and describe them. 1.) 2.) 3.) -What is projection and what are the 4 types of distortion that can result from projection? What are the differences between the Mercator and Peter’s projections? -What does the saying “uniform global landscape” mean? -What does the idea the world is shrinking mean? (4 things) 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) -What is a transnational corporation
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Here‚ both private and public sectors play a bigger role‚ whereby the public sector provides enough support to a private sector in various ways. This also explains why there are enough hospital beds available to accommodate a bigger number of patients. The Government of the United States through its intervention ventures into necessary expenses ensures that enough healthcare facilities‚ such
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