Essays on Cultural Geography

Conventional Farming vs. Organic Farming

Agriculture is the process by which food in grown on a large scale. It is larger than just the family garden that is intended to sustain a family for a year. Agriculture is intended to sustain an entire community and when it is practiced on a very large scale, it is done to feed thousands. Cultures around the globe have been involved in food production to sustain communities for tens of thousands of years or more. According to John Unsworth at IUOAC Agrochemicals, “Up until the 1940s inorganic substances, such as sodium chlorate and sulphuric acid, or organic chemicals ...

Current Event I - Population Geography, Migration Current Event II - Cultural Geography (including religion and language), Globalization Current Event III - Political Geography, Urban Geography

Current Event I: Population Geography, Migration

Source: CNN World, The Global Public Square Link: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/category/immigration/ The writer of this article is Kevin O’Donnell. He suggests that when people talk about migration, they discuss on pull and pull factors that drove individuals from their countries and pulls them to other countries. He acknowledges that there has been a rapid increase in the migration of children. Moreover, this article talks the factors that drive people to migrate into other ...

Introduction

Cultural geography is the study of norms, cultural products and their variations in relation to places and spaces. This piece elaborates my interaction with cultural geography my participation in the class. In the first section, the paper presents my view of the world has changed following the study. The second section states my preconceived notions. The fourth and the last sections elaborate on the changes I have experienced, what I have learnt and what ideas about culture changed or altered during the class.

Change

The integration of cultural geography into my life has had a serious impact. Before the earth was ...

Human geography is one of the main sub fields of geography as the larger discipline. Human geography is in reality a branch of social sciences. Social sciences are involved in studying the world, studying the people in the world, cultures and communities of the world. Human geography however focuses more on the relations that human beings have in relation to their placing and spacing. Human geography has a special focus on the activities of human beings. Human geography applies more of qualitative research methodologies. A main branch of human geography is cultural geography. This branch is very important in the ...

Westernization refers to the process by which the western culture is assimilated and absorbed into another culture. It is the social process in which the customs and practices of the so called western civilization becomes the order of the day in a different culture.

It is the process of absorbing one cultural group into another and assimilating it in away that they, to some extend show your culture and practices in them. Westernization is also called occidentalisation i.e. a process by which societies adopt the Western culture in such matters as technology, industry, politics, lifestyle, economics, language, law, diet, philosophy, religion ...