Essays on Geography

Flood Zones

- Water is essential for all living beings in life. Water is used for industrial purposes and it also maintains forests.

- According to the FEMA website, a 100 year flood is defined as the term "100-year flood" is misleading. It is not the flood that will occur once every 100 years. Rather, it is the flood elevation that has a 1-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded each year.” This means the probability of 1 % of rain occurring in any given year.

- The two different colours indicate the countries with their flood data available and the countries which ...

Global warming is a condition whereby there is continued abnormal rise in the average temperatures, in the atmosphere. The main cause of global warming is due to the increase of the concentration in greenhouse gases, in the atmosphere (Haldar, 2011).

Greenhouse gases mainly include carbon and its compounds like methane, carbon dioxide and also the emissions coming from fossil fuels during combustion, deforestation that is major carbon sink globally also contributes to greenhouse gases increase (Haldar, 2011). Fossil fuels especially used in vehicles and industries also contribute to global warming in a major way and are as a result of human activities. ...

Target market

In our marketing efforts the group of customers that the company has identified is women particularly overweight women. In the marketing strategy, a well defined target market is what the objective of the company management is. The success of Muffin Tops is a well defined marketing mix that is composed of four variables that include place (distribution), product, price, and promotion.

The Company aims to use this marketing mix so as to make muffin tops the number one priority among our esteemed customers. To construct a solid foundation for our company, the company targets wishes to target a niche market. Therefore, in defining ...

The interconnection with our landscapes is usually understood with the geographical and historical understanding of place and its local culture. Barry Lopez explores the idea of geographical connection according to how Americans are gradually discovering America as a homogenized National geography and are not willing to explore the beauty that exists in an intimate manner. This essay is extremely important to understand that how people value their own existence and the geographical environment in which they sustained for centuries, and what are the modern and traditional views across this, which makes a geographical location, symbolic of special specifications. Moreover, Barry Lopez ...

This paperwork will comprise of what I have learned about GIS by tackling the following questions: What is the technology of Geographic Information Systems? How the ESRI’s GIS products designed for environmental management? How can GIS be used to help solve the complicated physical environmental issues in the real world? I have learned that the geographic information system technology maintain and convey information to both the community and the environment managers. The flexibility of geographic information system also permits the examination and amalgamation of numerous layers of location-based statistics plus ecological measurements. ESRI’s geographic information system ...

Article Summary

The article of Baller & Richardson explains that the theory of Durkheim regarding suicide can be attributed to geographic space, social integration, and imitation (Baller & Richardson 873). The risk of suicide is high that can be based on the neighboring areas since it is man’s reflection of how he perceived the behaviour of other people that has a tendency influence his own actions. The replication of another person’s action is the powerful force that will drive another to act in a certain way. The article has shown that the hypotheses of Durkheim and Tarde are correct to a certain degree. The ...

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Introduction “There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives” –Josephine Hart. The famous quote by bestseller novelist is absolutely true and this could be understood well by travelers who are adventurous. For explorers, geography is the landscape that extends up to the horizon and well even beyond it. According to Bonnett (2008), “More specifically, it is towards geography that people have turned when seeking answers to the questions, ‘How and why has the environment altered?” (p.4). Mapping is a popular activity with which people tend to associate geography more specifically ...

Explanation 1

According to the Royal Geographic society, geography entails the study of people, places, environments and the landscapes of the earth. It, therefore, means that it is the study of the world in which people live. It helps bridge the gap between human sciences and natural sciences because it helps in explaining life through the dynamics of cultures and the environment in which the cultures are found. When landscapes and the environment are put into this context, it becomes clear that humanity and the environment coexist because it is the places and regions of the world that help in the ...

With regard to considerations of the auteur and mise en scene, I found the article “Imagining Geographies of Film” by Stuart C. Aitken and Deborah P. Dixon particularly interesting. The purpose of this article is to connect the geographic analysis of film to other disciplinary issues while also taking a look at how current theoretical constraints limit the consideration of geography. The authors successfully argue that critical perspectives on film often overlook the geographic concern; instead, the interest in geographies of film begins and ends with whether or not the geography of a particular film is realistic. One thing that is ...

With the advance in technologies the ability to organize or manipulate data to be more useful in everyday operational and strategic planning as become a key element for success. We can view this in one such systems recognize as the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This study tends to define what GIS (Geographic Information System) is and explain how GIS can be beneficial in the Health Care sector by manipulating raw data to be simulated into useful information by medical personnel’s in the Health Care Sector. In order to understand the benefits that derive from using a Geographic Information ...

Geographical Concepts

Geography is a field of science that deals with the study of lands, the inhabitants, features and phenomena of the earth. Geography is a discipline that seeks to understand the earth together with its human and natural complexities. In a bid to understand geography, geographers divided it into two main branches; physical geography and human geography. Physical geography focuses on the features of the earth. Physical geography focuses on climates, formation of landforms, as well as animal and plant distribution. Human geography on the other hand focuses on the social cultural aspects of the earth. This branch of geography examines the aspects ...

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I have been assigned the task of observing a school class and presenting my reflections on the teaching. The purpose of this exercise is to decide whether I would like to teach the subject I observed and the reasons for my decision. For this purpose, I chose the Calloway Count School. I attended a high school geography class. The topic of discussion was “The Big Bang”. I sat through most of the class and present my observations here. The teacher began the class by greeting the students and then asking them about their views of the Universe. He asked the ...

Book Review

Summary of the Book Why Geography Matters Harm de Blij is Hannah A. John, a lecturer at MSU (Michigan State University). Harm de Blij was a renowned Geography editor for 7 years, a writer of as well as commentator for PBS series, and worked as a Geography analyst of NBC News. In the book Why Geography Matters, the author (Harm), highlights three main challenges affecting America. These include climate change, Chinese rising power, and global terrorism. Nonetheless, the author as well identifies other significant challenges facing U.S. By the use of cultural and physical geography, Harm (2007), elucidates the justification for a ...

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 ...

Geography is one of the ancient earth science. The word ‘Geo’ meaning ‘Earth’ and ‘graphy’ meaning ‘to describe’ was first used by Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar in third century B.C. Geography is basically the study of the earth’s surface and associated changes and impacts associated with it. It is the study of the interactions of all physical and human phenomena and also the landforms created during these interactions. Physical geography is one of the main discipline of geographical science. It is mainly concerned with the study of the spatial patterns of weather and climate, soils and vegetation, water in ...

Introduction

As a field of engineering, petroleum engineering puts much emphasis on production of hydrocarbons in form of either natural gas or crude oil. Production and exploration of these hydrocarbons is a difficult task which presents various challenges to the technologists. To handle this problem, a number of tools and softwares have been created o ensure the task is easy. Although there are many softwares that are used in this industry, some of them are more basic. These may include the ArcGIS, Goggle Earth, he Petra, excel and PHDWin. This paper discusses these softwares and the role they play in the petroleum engineering ...

Language is an important, essential and foundational human characteristic. However, the way language is shaped, spoken, its grammar and other specifics are made and expressed with various accents is based on many different factors. In this paper, we analyze how culture as a whole and two other important factors inter-related with culture including gender and geographic location influences, impacts and effects the way a person uses a language. It shall be noticed that culture and language has strong bonds so much so that language is an expression of culture. Similarly, gender through culture and independent of culture (psychologically) shows variations in language use ...

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 ...

Physical characteristics of South East Asia

Geography is a term that means description of the earth (Hobbs, 5). This means that every physical feature from hills to deserts to rivers makeup the geography of the place. They contribute greatly to the scenic beauty of the area. Some areas have more physical features than the others. One area that is characterized by its physical features is South East Asia. These physical features make it different other locations around the world. Most of South Asia is located in the land hemisphere of the world. This means that it is located where the bulk of the land is ( ...

How does geography play a role in this international issue?

Geography from time immemorial has been important for examining international issues, like, for instance, the war in the Russian civil war that led to the soviets conquering Central Asia again in 1920s. Geographical distribution of different cultures and religion groups is what play a key role. Central Asia due to its locality has both positive and negative implication in international issues. Its proximity to Eurasian Great powers, make the region vulnerable to attack and also important in connecting Europe and Far East, this has made major world power to strive to dominate the region. The tendency had been witness through ...

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Introduction to GIS

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is an emerging industry throughout the world. It is a tool that allows users to visualize and present data in several ways. This enables them to observe and report patterns and relationships within a given area, subject or between given variables. These patterns and relationships are generally displayed on maps, but they can also be represented on a globe, on charts and in reports. Its importance lies in its ability to bring together information from a number of different sources and ensure that specific work is carried out. Latitudes and Longitudes are ...

1. Purpose: The Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) are found in their entire geographic range of habitation prefers cliffs to sleep. But, a specific group of Hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia were found to choose doum palm trees (Hyphaene thebaica) exclusively to sleep instead of cliffs, simultaneously other bands of Hamadryas baboons were found to choose cliffs to sleep. Purpose of the study was to observe the specific band of baboons and their behaviour with another band of baboons on the basis of their day to day activities to ascertain the cause for such variation. 2. Aim: Though the characteristics ...

Geographic information system is a technology that supports science by offering problem solving capabilities using data from geographical sources (Longley et al, 16). This technology uses a software product that can be installed on machines in order to be able to analyze digital representation of the geographic world. This technology consists of a particular component that gives it the ability of constructing, analyzing and representing geographical features in digital form. It consists of components which include an interface, data output and presentation, storage and database, data verification transformation and analysis (Melnick 9) that are connected together via a network. It is a powerful technology ...

The colonially constructed entity known as Afghanistan includes various erudite disagreements that are helping its quick decrease as a maintainable unit of political economy. American and other universal neo-provincial on-screen characters in and experts of Afghanistan have inherited and received British pioneer demeanor and activities at the nation. Therefore, the individuals of Afghanistan have been subjected to provincially defined understandings of themselves, and have yet to get the social and intelligent devices important to oppose and reject the inconvenience of the other's perspective of self (Kaifi&Mujtaba 2010). The main parts of Western compositions on Afghanistan outline the provincial experience ...

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 ...

Yoel E Stuart and Jonathan B Losos’ article “Ecological character displacement: glass half full or half empty?” looks into the past notions on Ecological Character Displacement (ECD), and how the notions changed over the years. In addition, they also did a literature review on several past and recent studies. ECD is based on the notion that sympatric species compete for scarce resources; hence, the species that natural selection should favor the species to diverge in the usage of resources and phenotype (Stuart & Losos 402). Over the years, ECD has received both acceptance and rejection from the science community; hence, Stuart ...

Issues of transport planning have been under inquiry and discourse by a multidisciplinary array of researchers while attempting to forecast, plan and model transport behaviors. Most researches are focused on the description and understanding of optimal solutions which are designed for communities using quantitative models. The problem with this approach is that quantitative models are used to describe reality. While the models used may be complex and advanced, they are still not capable of capturing the critical “human element”. This, however, is possible with more subjective qualitative methods. Qualitative methods are often overlooked because of the methodological problems and technicalities ...

Florence, or Firenze, was the seat of the Early Renaissance in Italy. However, in the Proto-renaissance period, other Italian cities were close competitors to become the center-point of artistic revolution. Florence’s emergence as the hub of art was influenced by several factors, the amalgamation of which led to the city’s rise. Geographic dominance also greatly added to the strength that Florence has gained. The Black Death or plague had reduced the population of city by half and led to the bankruptcy of two banks during the 14th century. Believing Florence to be vulnerable Milan and Naples ...

Culture, when broadly applied, is a term that can be used to describe virtually all avenues and aspects of human life. In his textbook Cultural Anthropology, Richley H. Crapo defines it as “a learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living around which a group of people organize their lives; a way of life of particular society” (Crapo, 2013). Perhaps the most astounding thing about humanity is the vast diversity in culture that emerges in different groups of people. The differences in culture come from a variety of factors, the most important being geography. One important marker of culture is how it revolves ...

Since I was a kid, the earth and its features have been my interest. I could spend time on my atlas trying to study the location of various continents, as well as their countries. I was struggling to understand how the largest part of the earth could be covered with water, and how the earth could float in the middle of nowhere despite being too big and heavy. As I grew up, I realized that geography is more than just the earth and its features. It’s a whole more than that. Geography is essential for human survival. This is because ...

Law enforcement is one of the many occupational areas where use of technology has had a major impact. One particular application of technology in this area is a general approach called predictive policing. Predictive policing is taking data about crime from many sources, analyzing it, and then using the results of that analysis to combat future crime (Pearsall, 2010). One of the specific applications of predictive policing is a law enforcement management approach called COMPSTAT, where the actions of police are guided by computer statistics. This contrasts with older approaches to law enforcement that relied upon random patrol plans, officer intuition and ...

Geographic concepts are the ideas that are mainly covered in the study of geography and mainly give basis to study and research. In the article ‘Geography strikes back’ by Robert Kaplan published on the wall street journal, different concepts of Geography are evident. These include the concept of Region, Culture as well as size location and spatial interaction. This paper describes the relationship of the concepts and the course as well as their role and importance in the general study of Geography. The issue of region is highly depicted in the article. There can never be Geography without ...

“National Geographic as our Sunglasses to the World: A Distorted Look at Reality:” A Critique

Sociologist Tami Miller, in his article “National Geographic as our Sunglasses to the World: A Distorted Look at Reality,” presents a critical review of Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins’ research analysis of the National Geographic magazine. He said that the two authors’ research finding about the world-renown “capitalist” organization has a “hidden racist” perspective. It portrays photographs of foreign, exotic cultures (e.g., ritual behavior, colorful symbolic dress, etc.). Miller even asked why “the National Geographic decides to pick certain photographs over others.” I am ambivalent and do not want to toy with the idea that Miller’s answer to the ...

List the three nutrient cycles present in an ecosystem.

Nutrient cycles are also called as biogeochemical cycles as they help convert the elemental form of essential minerals into biochemical form for utilization by living organisms. The three important nutrient cycles of the ecosystem are the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the phosphorous cycle. Nitrogen has a vast atmospheric abundance but is not present in a useable form for many organisms. Nitrogen fixers convert nitrogen into ammonium and nitrates to be taken up by plants and passed onto animals. Phosphorous is the integral part of the building blocks of nucleic acids, ATP and lipids that make up the ...

The 1890 Sherman Anti-trust Act is identified as the first and most critical of all U.S antitrust laws. The act, which was signed into formal law by the then president, Benjamin Harrison was named after its biggest campaigner, John Sherman, who was the Ohio Senator then. The Act explains the primary reasons why consumers are best served by a free trade, without many restrictions. The primary reasons why price fixing among sellers comes with such things as restrictions on output and geographic areas is to create a business environment that does not encourage the presence of monopolies. According to the ...

The definition of geographic experience varies subjectively from one individual to another. In an endeavor to explain what a geographic experience is, people give various events that have occurred in the recent history. In my case, the geographic experience that I have had is the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The natural disaster, which was a result of seismic waves and sudden adjustment in the geological strata underneath the ocean, claimed many lives and property as the raging waters swept the coastal settlements. The most important reason as to why I deem the phenomenon as a geographic experience is because it greatly involved, ...

Golf is a very popular sport in the USA and here at WKU, too. In our sports and athletics club called the “Hilltoppers” golf is a very active part of the club. In fact I saw on the club’s website that there was an article entitled “WKU Golf to Host WKU/Kenny Perry Invitational” (Oct 2012) announcing that for the first time for several years the men’s section of our club was hosting a golf tournament – the Kenny Perry Invitational at the Golf Club at Olde Stone, on October 14th to 16th. My own interest in golf came about quite ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) is a computer network in which the computers are connected in a small geographic area like a school, small office home office, or a group of buildings, whereas Wide Area Network (WAN) are networks for large geographical areas, and are made up of multiple LANs connected in different ways through the use of routers (Mansfield, Antonakos, 2009). For example, Internet. Even though the speed of LANs (1000mbps) is higher than the WANs (150mbps), the WANs are costlier than LANs. LAN is cost-effective as it covers a small geographic area. A WAN is built when there is a large area to ...

This video is compiled by Khan Academy. It talks about the functions of the Electoral College and how the voting process is conducted within the organization. According to this video, the Electoral College is bestowed with the responsibility of electing the President of the United States. It is clear from this movie that though presidents are popularly elected, the final determinant of their incumbency lies in the Electoral College. First of all, the Electoral College is composed of all senators and congressmen from all the 52 states of the United States. The total electoral votes for any given state ...

Summary of Acemoglu’s video

In this video, economist Daron Acemoglu explains why nations fail economically. He singles out “extractive” political institutions as the biggest impediment to a nation’s economic prosperity. Acemoglu defines “extractive” political institutions as those that place power in the hands of a few individuals. This scenario features unfair regulations and high market-entry barriers. These factors conjure to enrich a clique in the society, while inhibiting economic progress for the majority of the people (Acemoglu). He contrasts this with governments that have expanded democratic space by protecting property rights. Nations with such political institutions encourage entrepreneurship from their citizenry as well as attract ...

In any business organization, the part in charge for the production of services and/ or goods is referred to as operations. Despite the fact that operations function is accountable for the delivery of goods and services, it requires input and support from other functional areas of the business. In particular, operation is the heart of any business undertaking. Therefore, operations management is basically the management of processes or systems that lead to the creation of goods and services (Stevenson, 2008). The roles of operations management are performed by an operation manager.

The core role of the operations manager is ...

Understanding and Applying Human Geography

The field of human geography is a very broad endeavor, essentially focusing on the sociological, cultural and economic aspects of people’s interactions across different geographical locations. According to various researchers (Rowntree, Lewis, & Price, 2011; Rubenstein, 2010), human geography is a spin-off of physical geography with specific focus on human activities. As such, this field entails an understanding of the significance of different interactions and activities among people of different regions across the globe. For instance, firm knowledge of human geography will enable me to understand the origins of such distinct socio-cultural aspects of the human society as language and religious ...

The world has witnessed tremendous change over the last century. The wave of industrialization and globalization existent in the world today has altered the political and socio-economic organization of the globe. The increased advancement in technology and methods of transport and communication has immensely caused life to be easier. People can easily move from place to place in a short time without having to worry about the time that will be spent accessing various venues. This has made trade and other essential components of the society to be well distributed across the globe. In addition, it is important to realize ...

There are skeptics who suggest that the global warming phenomenon is grossly exaggerated, turning the attention of possible government backing or funding away from the movements that are working against its possible worldwide effects (Houghton, 2007). Nevertheless, the fact that the planet is getting warmer is undeniable. NASA (Voiland, 2010) reports that the previous decade, from 2000 to 2009, is the warmest the earth ever experienced in its history. Since 1880, the time when temperature can be accurately measured, the average global temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius. According to The Guardian (Houghton, 2007), over the recent ...

Criminal Justice

1 A Spatial Analysis of Neighbourhood Crime in Omaha, Nebraska Using Alternative Measures of Crime Rates

The research focuses on four kinds of crime and their spatial patterns. The crimes studied are: a) robbery, b) assault, c) burglary, and d) auto theft. Geographic information system or GIS procedures were used to correlate the occurrence of these crimes with the characteristics of a neighbourhood in the City of Omaha, Nebraska. Ordinary least square methods were also employed. For alternate measures of the crime rate, crime density and crime location quotients were deduced. There research yielded three vital results. To begin with, the findings ...

Abstract

Although transportation and communication has allowed us to develop global communities outside our physical neighborhoods the physical neighborhood where we reside still impact upon our lives. “Social Geographies” addresses the importance of community to people and how it connects to the geographic location where they live. It looks into how our neighborhoods and communities help develop an individual’s sense of self.

Community and Neighborhoods

Reflection “Community is a contested concept, frequently invoked in a variety of ways by different interest groups.” . It is not necessarily tied to the physical location where an individual resides. Communities are frequently made up of like-minded people ...

The term “geography” in its broad context denotes a science, which deals with the earth as the planet and as the land as well. It derives from two stems of Greek origin: “geo” – earth and “graphos” write or describe. It is one of the oldest sciences in the world because as soon as people start hunting or collecting food they start to investigate the environment, the world around them. And these investigations were the first geographical discoveries of the mankind. The times have been changing and geography as a science has becoming and more complicated. According to a common understanding of the ...

The World In The Balance Movie is mainly about the growing population of human beings in 3 countries : Kenya, Japan and India. It also sheds more light on the effects of this rising of population. It is shown in the movie and in the course that the components of population growth are: mortality, total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, economic development . these can be used to distinguish a country from one another.

In addition, the economy in India is sustainable although there are a lot of people who live in bad conditions. Further more, there are some organizations in India ...

Introduction

The country of Bangladesh has historically served as a virtual bulls-eye for cyclonic activity in its corner of the Indian Ocean. Not only is the bay that leads onto shore extremely flat (and shallow), the shoreline is shaped like a horseshoe, which draws the storm activity inward. Also, the Bangladeshi lowlands along the ocean are also flat, and they do not drain well at all. This is good when you want to grow rice, but it is not so good when you want to avoid tragedy when a cyclone blows ashore and brings flooding with it. In the centuries before such ...

A vigorous and appealing narrative history, presenting the ordinary regular threads in the traditions that gave birth to ours. It is the first level in a daring latest series that narrates the stories of all the grassroots of the world, attaching historic occurrences from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of china. While still weighing the distinctiveness of every region, Susan Wise Bauer gives both extensive capacity and vibrant attention to the personal lives that provide flesh to theoretical declaration regarding human history. A number of maps give an obvious geography of grand occurrences, whereas the timelines ...

The paths of water through the hydrologic cycle

One of the most fundamental principles in hydrology and ecology is the hydrologic cycle. This cycle represents the process of water circulations from the oceans, atmosphere, land and back to the ocean. The energy driving the cycle is from the solar/sun and forces of gravity. The process is continuous, and is a global wide process ensuring that every water drop on earth is part of the system (Harper et al n.d).

At the beginning of the process, water from the seas, lakes, wetlands, rivers gain energy from the sun and get transferred to the atmosphere as vapor. The sun provides ...

Africa is a continent with vast untapped and unexploited natural resources, and China due to its growing economy; has a demand for these resources. China has therefore helped Africa to re-establish it self as source of valuable commodities for the Global market and also assisted to put a focus on Africa’s politics and why it remains poor (Snow 1998, 64).

China’s interest in Africa is empirical and obvious; it needs to secure oil for its fast growing economy and Africa is open to the idea, in inference to the opportunity of foreign investment. Chinese industries rely heavily on imported raw ...

Introduction

Geography is very important. Specifically, the geographic concepts are important to understanding the world thoroughly. The geographers, content experts, and geography educators contribute many relevant things in geography; the human, physical, historical, political, cultural, and economic factors can greatly influence the people and the environment. Everything in the world is related with each other; however, the nearer the things are, they are more related as compared to distant things. The product of the geographic thinking and its reasoning on the natural world and the human phenomena is the geographic knowledge. It only implies that the knowledge of and about ...

Abstract Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...

Importance of Teaching History and Geography to Children in the Primary Years

Importance of Teaching History and Geography to Children in the Primary Years

Introduction

History and Geography are one of the key subjects taught in the primary level of education to equip a student with different aspects of life and the surrounding environment. A person has to learn how he or she exists, why the existences of certain features differ in size and location and how the past influences the present and the future. The principle and objectives set in the two subjects have elaborate goals that need to be achieved in order to enhance the manner in which the given education ...

There are various categories of technologies that run the modern world and without which the human life would be traumatized. Man has integrated his environment with his artificial creations to achieve better results from life activities. The environment comprises of the ecosystem where human beings interact with their day-to-day operations. Some of such aspects that man has invented into his environment are geo design, geographic information science and geographic information science. Geo design involves technology, inventions and techniques for planning man-made and natural environmental systems in a procedural integrated manner that includes analyses, design and design creation, project conceptualization ...

Geographic Information System

Access to good health services in many countries is very crucial for effective treatment among the population, hence preventing most of the unnecessary deaths in the society. Primary care is singled out as the most important form of healthcare for population health management since it is the corner stone of healthcare delivery to people in the developing countries for instance. It is low priced and therefore can be conveyed more easily compared to any inpatient care and distinctive feature, and if apportioned correctly, it will effective in avoiding on large scale the advancement of the disease. The human ...

Alienation

The concept of alienation is a one of the central constructs of Marxian theory. This concept was used for description of a capitalist mode of production when workers lost control over the means of production. In accordance with Knox & Pinch (2010) it is described as “a mechanism of social change” and relates another concept of deviant behavior in wider sociopolitical connotation (p.215). Later alienation was used by the early deterministic theorists because it was of a great interest when studying spatial variations of people behavior (Amin, 2002). Marx outlined several reasons of alienation. Firstly, alienated person feels like economic, social ...

A country’s healthcare plays a significant role in ensuring the growth of the economy as a whole because people who are sick have low productivity. As a result, government has to allocate funds for the healthcare system so that people can access treatment easily and at an affordable price. Through the allocation of funds, the health care system can account for everyone in the country, rural and urban. This has not been the case. The management of health care system is precisely low compared to those living in the urban areas. Those in the urban areas can enjoy good healthcare whereas ...

General Purpose: Indian sub continent is diverse and too large to administer.

Specific Purpose: Geographically, culturally, religiously and significantly diverse population cohabit Indian sub continent. The variety in geography has led to unequal sharing of natural resources and infrastructure. Religious preferences have led to violence, terrorism and activism. Democratic rule aiding internal divisions of large states and ever-increasing population is leading the country to cross roads of uncertainty. Thesis: Present state of affairs in the Indian sub continent is an amalgam of historical events and global factors of economic sways. I. Introduction

A. Geography

B. Hindu nation II. Zones of Diversity

A. Climatic and geographic zones

B. Urban versus rural III. Infrastructure

A. Physical infrastructure

B. Social ...