Konrad GEOG 111 Name__________________________________ Fall 2014 TEST 1 - 19 September 2014 Instructions: Fill out your name and PID number on the top left portion of the scantron sheet. (PID goes where it says identification number). Answer the questions on the test by darkening the circle containing the correct numbered response for each question. Double check to make sure that the question numbers on the test corresponds with those on the scantron sheet. Be sure to use a #2 pencil
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How much‚ on average‚ do you think Americans spend on travel and leisure activities? Well‚ according to the U.S. Travel Association “the U.S. averaged $2.7 billion a day‚ $113.1 million an hour‚ $1.9 million a minute and $31‚400 a second” (U.S. Travel Association). It is no wonder then that Travel and Leisure digital magazine is so popular. But how exactly do they make people spend so much of their hard-earned money on travel? Travel and Leisure is able to capture the attention of thousands of travel
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Cultural Comparisons Paper #1 I decided to research Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia has been in the news a lot lately and I wanted to have a better understanding of the culture. There are a lot of stereotypes associated with Saudi Arabia and the Islam religion and I think that the best way to overlook these stereotypes is to learn more about the culture and gain an insider’s perspective. It is all too easy to judge a culture from the outside‚ but by becoming educated on the culture it may be
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this day‚ she would gaze onto the faces of her friends‚ her loyal dogs and a young child‚ and then imprint those images within her mind. When the afternoon approaches she’ll stroll through the hidden paths of the forest‚ and admire the colors of a sunset. Sleep shouldn’t overcome her excitement that night. On her second and third days Helen continues to narrate the events of her sightseeing. To mark the start of the second day‚ she will awake to be in awe of daybreak; Helen describes the spectacle
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happy moments spent in the company of beautiful things. A colorful butterfly seen for five minutes gives instant delight for the same time‚ but if that scene is recaptured twenty‚ the joy becomes twenty fold. Beauty abounds in nature. The sunrise‚ the sunset‚ the moon‚ the starts‚ the rainbow and the seasons delight the senses. Beautiful sight and sounds of nature provide pleasure to man. The rivers‚ the forests‚ the green mountains‚ the snow-capped peaks and the flowers are beautiful objects of
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crescent moon is sighted‚ the Ramadhan month comes to an end and on the first day of Islamic lunar month Shawwal ‚ it’s now the time for celebrations for people of Muslim cultur. In the whole month of holy Ramadhan‚ Muslims keep fasting and from sunrise to sunset everyday they eats and drink nothing. Muslims believe‚
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amount of food he received each month: “Eight pounds of pork‚ or its equivalent in fish‚ and one bushel of corn meal” (Douglass 9). This amount of food is not even enough to feed a sedentary person‚ let alone someone who has been toiling from sunrise to sunsets in the fields. The food the slaves were given essentially had no nutritional value. “Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts‚ one pair of linen trousers‚ like the shirts‚ one jacket‚ one pair of trousers for winter‚ made
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During the 19th century‚ the living condititons for African slaves in the USA was malignantly unfathomable as humanity had become an ideal corrupted by the mounting manifestations of man; “babarit[ies] of [the] tyrant” (Sydney Smith). Slaves were often required to strip themselves of their humanity in order to stage their masters’ decrees‚ such as; working lengthy hours‚ suffering mistreatement from the masters children and overseers’ whip‚ subsisting from little sustenance and ultimately becoming
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the sun had rose‚ until the sun was completely gone from view. The textbook Out of Many: A History of the American People‚ quotes slaves as describing their work hours as “can see to can’t see”(Out of Many‚ 319). This implies they worked from sunrise to sunset‚ or about eighteen hours during the summer and ten hours during the winter. This agrees and for the most part
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for my paper was entitled” Your Meditation Practice”. The author Sandra Sebelis states that to her” At some moment in our lives we have all experienced a period of intense peace and joy - it may have been in listening to a piece of music; watching a sunset‚ a rainbow‚ or snow falling in the forest; or it may have been after a delicious meal. These too rare
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