MODULE 1 Historical Background • The history of GIS involves some controversy as parallel development occurred in North America‚ Europe‚ and Australia. • Much of the published work on GIS focus on US contributions. • The Canada Geographic Information System or CGIS is the first GIS developed in 1960s . • Roots in Canada Land Inventory (CLI) mapping project : a multilayer land-use / planning map of Canada’s inhabited and productive land – around 1 million square miles. • CGIS was planned and
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S. American Slavery‚ American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton‚ 1975. Salinger‚ Sharon V. ’To serve well and faithfully ’: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania‚ 1682-1800. New Boyd‚ Lawrence W. "The Coal Company Town." Ph.D. Dissertation‚ West Virginia University‚ 1993. Fishback‚ Price V. Soft Coal‚ Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners 1890-1930. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1992. Gates‚ Grace Hooten. The Model City of the New South:
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SOLDIER’S HOME In the short story called SOLDIER’S HOME‚ by Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway‚ the main character Krebs has just returned from World War One in Europe. This is the perennial story of the hero leaving on some quest‚ only to return home finding everything different. Therefore‚ identity conflict holds the key to this story. Hemingway shows us how the hero must move on as there apparently is no such thing as a soldier’s home. Harold Krebs returns from World War I having
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Our Town "Our Town"‚ by Thornton Wilder‚ written in 1938‚ was first performed at the McCarter theatre‚ New Jersey‚ on the 22nd of January1938. It is an example of meta theatre‚ and chronicles the lives of ordinary‚ everyday people‚ during their ordinary‚ everyday lives. The story is based in Grover’s Corners‚ a small town in New Hampshire‚ set at the turn of the century. The play involves three main acts‚ each focused upon a different aspect of life. Set in 1901‚ the first
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story "The Only One in Town"; written by Jack Ansell‚ Marcus and Lillian Greenbaum were the only Jews in all of Twosboro. This was a small town of only 1700 people‚ located in north-central Louisiana. Marcus and his wife were "typical white residents" of Twosboro despite being the only Jews: they owned and operated a clothing and dry-goods store‚ they socialized with the white community and whites made up most of their customers. Marcus found himself to be the only white man in town who wasn’t signed
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business? If not‚ when was the last time you shopped at a locally owned business? -Local businesses can have affects everyone‚ especially in a small community like the ones we live in. My name is... and my father owns his own business. Repeat. BODY: Overall: Locally owned businesses are crucial to keeping small towns thriving. +”Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains.” +The more people shop locally‚ the
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Everyone loves the new kid in town. He’s unexpected‚ mysterious‚ and charming. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ Charles Bingley and his entourage are the “new kids in town.” These unknown‚ wealthy strangers are the gossip around Longbourn. Eagles is a rock band that formed in the 1970s that released a song called “New Kid in Town” in 1976. Don Henley‚ the band’s drummer‚ explains‚ “We were basically saying‚ ‘Look‚ we know we’re red hot right now but we also know that somebody’s going to come
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In my american literature class we read Our Town mostly out loud and as a group. The play takes place in fictional town of Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire‚ early on a May morning in 1901 The play is about a community of people who live there lives together‚ and they look out for each other. The main families are the Gibb’s‚ and the Webb’s‚ and in act one the setting is mostly taken place in those to families house’s. During the play they express exactly what they’re doing‚ such as chores and other
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children of Chiswick Town are abducted by desperate foxes and replaced with duplicates that look like them‚ a spunky tomboy is forced to outfox both the humans and foxes to save their town. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The town of Chiswick is Steampunk World with mechanical devices and a towering Goo-ulator. The sheriff of the town‚ SHERIFF DERRINGER has a plan to get rid of all the foxes that live underneath the ground in caves. He plans to use his Goo-ulator to flood the foxes’ home. He wants revenge on
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this may seem like a very melodramatic description of our world‚ it’s truly not that far-fetched. The idea of “taking it slow” and the idea of all aspects of life having meaning are explored in the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Our Town is a play which tells the story of a generic American town‚ Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire‚
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