The Five Themes of Geography in Jacksboro‚ TN Gabrielle Brown GEOG 200_B01 Liberty University Looking out from the Sugar Shack Café in Jacksboro Tennessee‚ there is so much more to this little town than meets the eye. For some people all they see is a mountain top and a Wal-Mart. For others they see an area that they call home. From my current location here at the Sugar Shack Café‚ I can see Highway 25W‚ a stop light‚ several businesses (Wal-Mart‚ McDonalds‚ Dollar Tree‚ Shoe-Show
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Geography Study Notes Chapter 9: The Changing Nature of the World • Every person in the world is part of the global village • Globalisation brings people together from all over the world through the free flow of goods‚ services‚ money and information. • The physical size of the world has not changed‚ but due to globalisation the world has “become a smaller place”. • Globalisation is the breakdown of barriers that has allowed for changes in the way we trade and communicate. • People
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Geographies of social difference WESTIES‚ SURFIES AND BOGANS: SPACE AND STIGMA IN THE MEDIA DR DALLAS ROGERS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE OVERVIEW 1. Textbook reading: • • Post-structuralist thought Analysing geographies of difference 2. Stigma‚ the media and place attachment: • • • Territorial stigma Place attachment Place defending 3. Case studies: • • • Housos The Shire The Bra Boys d.rogers@uws.edu.au EXPLANATIONS CONCERNED WITH DIFFERENCE
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Several times throughout the book Blij pointed out many traditions. Quite a few caught my eye some being in chapter one Blij describes geography as so much more than a social science. Geographers do several different varieties of research‚ from climate change in the polar ice caps and plants and animals to the movement of a disease. Blij also reminds us that geographers do much more than study climate and plants‚ geographers also study human activities‚ like city layout along with boundary making
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Geographic coordinates: 13 00 N‚ 122 00 E Map references: Southeast Asia Area: total: 300‚000 sq km land: 298‚170 sq km water: 1‚830 sq km Area - comparative: slightly larger than Arizona Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 36‚289 km Geography - note: the Philippine archipelago is made up of 7‚107 islands; favorably located in relation to many of Southeast Asia’s main water bodies: the South China Sea‚ Philippine Sea‚ Sulu Sea‚ Celebes Sea‚ and Luzon Strait Population: 96‚061‚680
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Egypt and Israel are countries with similar geography and topography‚ and history of diplomacy and trade. The land area of modern Egypt spans across North Eastern Africa. Israel‚ in contrast‚ is a small country‚ lying on the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is only about the size of Massachusetts. Both countries are prime examples of successful commerce and economy in the Middle East. Throughout history‚ several geographic factors have contributed to the cultural and economic development
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URBAN GEOGRAPHY TERMS Action space—The geographical area that contains the space an indivdual interacts with on a daily basis. Annexation—the process of legally adding land area to a city. Beaux arts—This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older‚ classical forms with newer‚ industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares‚ spacious parks‚ and civic monuments that stressed progress‚ freedom‚ and national unity. City
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Exam One Study Guide GEA 2000 Chapter 1: Geography What is geography? What do geographers study? How is geography interdisciplinary? What is cartography and GIS? What is the grid system and its parts? What are map projections‚ and how do they distort the Earth? What is a region and how are they determined? What is a transition zone? What are interregional linkages? What are the internal forces and external forces that shape the physical environment? What is plate tectonics‚ and how does
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| Senior Geography Project | Crime Rate in Broadmeadow | | Grondin‚ Zachary | 1/1/2013 | | Contents Geographical Problem 2 Plan of Investigation/Methodology 3 Data Gathering/Processing 4 Geographical Problem Rationale: In the weeks leading up to being given the Senior Geography Project‚ my home got robbed while I was at school. At first I was interested in looking into ‘Break and Enters’‚ but with further investigation and discussion with my teacher‚ Mrs Donelly‚ we
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Table of Contents Oceanographer...…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Cartographer...…………………………………………………………………………………….5 Sociologist………………………………………………………………………………………...7 Opinion Essay……………………………………………………………………………………..9 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………………...…11 Oceanographer Oceanography is one of many unique geological studies. It focuses on the depths of the ocean and the air above it. That includes everything from the studying of tropical storms to the studying
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