Author Debra Marquart in her memoir “The Horizontal World”‚ writes about North Dakota and how she confesses her love for it in a very indirect way. There were very many considerable amounts of situations in her hometown and visitors would think that the land is plain and unimpressive. Debra includes many strategies to characterize the upper Midwest. Some of these strategies include imagery‚ tone‚ and syntax‚ also‚ diction‚ personification‚ and pathos‚ and lastly‚ ethos‚ logos‚ and audience. Imagery
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Review 4 Types of data in GIS: spatial‚ attribute‚ temporal‚ and metadata. Last week we covered attribute data Today‚ we will cover spatial data—specifically georeferencing‚ map projections and coordinate systems‚ and geocoding. Next topic Geographic Representation & Vector Data Model Lecture 03: Georeferencing GIS6100 Downs 1. Spatial Information 1. Spatial Information 3 main categories References Properties Relationships 1. Spatial Information
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Chapter One: • Human geographers study people and places. The field of human geography focuses on how people make places and how we organize space & society. How we make sense of others and ourselves in our locality‚ religion & world. • Advances in communication & transportation… technologies are making places and people more interconnected. Today we can cross the globe in record time‚ with easy access to automobiles‚ airplanes‚ and ships. • Globalization is a set of processes that
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the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) but the city is actually part of theSOCCSKSARGEN region. Location COTABATO CITY is situated in the northwest portion of Maguindanao. It lies 7’138’44.02 North Latitude and 124’14’32.06 East Longitude It is approximately 689.9 nautical miles southeast of Manila and is more or less 220 kilometers away from Davao City. The city is bounded on the North by the municipality of Sultan Kudarat with Rio Grande de Mindanao as boundary; on the East by the
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Adaptations of Savanna vegetation. Savanna vegetation must adapt to survive. Many problems must be overcome‚ such as lack of water‚ very seasonal rainfall‚ poor soil quality‚ grazing animals‚ very high temperatures and fire. 1. Define the following terms: Xerophytic = A plant adapted to living in a dry arid habitat; a desert plant Pyrophytic = plants adapted to tolerate fire Deciduous = Loss of leaves seasonally Perennial = lives more than 2 years Dormant = A condition of significantly
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Pilipino Cultural Theme Park in Clark Freeport Zone‚ Angeles‚ Pampanga Source: Google Earth‚ Author’s visual interpretation. Nayong Pilipino is situated in a 45-acre (180‚000 square meter) lot with exact location of its latitude:15°12’8.10"N and longitude: 120°31’39.02"E. 4.2.2.1. Description of location The location of the proposed “Bangon: Redevelopment of Nayong Pilipino Cultural Theme Park” is at Clark Expo‚ Clark Field‚ Clark Freeport Zone‚ Angeles City‚ Luzon‚ Philippines. Currently‚ the location
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Shawn Girouard 2/5/15 Chapter 1 Dessler HW 1. Determine the latitude and longitude of the White House‚ the Kremlin‚ the Pyramids of Giza‚ and the point on the opposite side of the Earth to where you were born. Use an online tool (e.g.‚ Google Earth) or an atlas (which you can find in any library). White House: 38.8977° N‚ 77.0366° W Kremlin: 55.7517° N‚ 37.6178° E Pyramids of Giza: 29.9792° N‚ 31.1344° E Opposite of where I was born: 36.385913° S‚ 59.677734° E 2. a) Convert the following temperatures
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Operator Independent Truck Dispatch System (O.I.T.D.S.) - It is a Global Positioning System based Truck Dispatch System(TDS). It is a system which cover the functionality of the production‚ surveying and other related department of the mine relevant to the operation of TDS. It ’s working in online transaction- processing (OL TP) environment with real time monitoring of HEMM performance. The system assists in the following works • Reducing queuing of dumpers and idle time of high value HEMM
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Space exploration has been increasing greatly in the last 50 years. It has allowed us to understand the greatness of the universe and the endless possibilities it offers us. Our planet‚ Earth‚ is inhabited by approximately 6 billion humans. This is well over our natural carrying capacity (the amount of resources there are to sustain our population) but with techniques such as farming‚ we have manipulated our resources to provide us with enough food‚ but alternate solutions are needed. The Cold War
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Christopher Columbus used a sand-glass to measure the time that his ships were at sea. With today’s marine chronometer‚ a measurement of time in such a precise and accurate way that it’s used as a portable time standard and to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation‚ he would’ve had a more precise inquiry of the time it takes him to sail from one place to another. Along with Christopher Columbus’s use of the sand-glass to keep time while at sea‚ he also used a nocturnal‚ which
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