afraid to fall asleep‚ but staying awake also brought back painful memories… These days I live in three worlds: my dreams‚ and the experiences of my new life‚ which trigger memories from the past” (Beah 19). Quoted from Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone‚ is an example of post-traumatic stress disorder‚ one of the many themes and effect of war and violence present in this book. According to the Journal of Controversial Medical Claims‚ post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that
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StudyAP Human Geography Notes Bartula 4/15/09 General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism‚ the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical
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Geopolitics is a component of human geography. To understand geopolitics we must first understand what is human geography. This is easier said than done‚ precisely because geography is a diverse and contested discipline—in fact‚ the easiest‚ and increasingly accurate‚ definition is that human geography is what human geographers do: accurate‚ but not very helpful. Geography is a peculiar discipline in that it does not lay intellectual claim to any particular subject matter. Political scientists
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Total fertility rate- the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years Demographic momentum- where the large group of young people grow past childbearing age and the population decreases Crude death rate- aka mortality rate‚ number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population Infant mortality rate- number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births per year Natural increase- the difference between the crude
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Sons‚ Norwich CATMOG - Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY No. 44 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM by John Pickles (West Virginia University) EDITOR ’S NOTE PREFACE NOTE ON THE USE OF THE GLOSSARY I INTRODUCTION (i) (ii) (iii) II (i) (ii) (i) (ii) IV (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) Two themes in the development of humanism in geography Philosophical underpinnings The need for critique Liberalism
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navigation‚ search Geography | History of geography * Graeco-Roman * Chinese * Islamic * Age of Discovery * History of cartography * Environmental determinism * Regional geography * Quantitative revolution * Critical geography | | Critical geography takes a critical theory (Frankfurt School) approach to the study and analysis of geography. The development of critical geography can be seen as one of the four major turning points in the history of geography (the other three being
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Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager
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Throughout history‚ geographical features have influenced the development of civilizations and regions. Geographic features have both promoted and limited interactions with other civilizations and regions. Geography is the study of the Earth and the relationship of humans with their environment. Two geographic features are the Nile River and the Sahara Desert. The Nile River is the longest river of the world. It is also considered the breadbasket of the world since it has provided the Egyptian
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Basic concepts Intro A. Contemporary geography is the scientific study of the location of people and activities across Earth. Reasons for distribution B. Difference between historians and geographers. Geographers- ask where things are and why they are there Historians-organize material but time Geographers- organize material by place Historians- study the logical sequence Geographers- study the logical arrangement C. Local diversity and globalization Modern communications and technology
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living are dropping further behind the richest countries. The gap in incomes between the 20% of the richest and the poorest countries has grown from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 82 to 1 in 1995. 3. Increased trade and travel have facilitated the spread of human‚ animal and plant diseases‚ like HIV/AIDS‚ SARS and bird flu‚ across borders. The AIDS crisis has reduced life expectancy in some parts of Africa to less than 33 years and delays in addressing the problems‚ caused by economic pressures‚ have exacerbated
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