Cartography

I am applying to the Geography undergraduate program because of my recent interest in human-land relationships. My main goal for applying to this department is to pursue a career in cartography. My dad and I go to this motorcycle museum in the hill-country where all walks of life go in the late winter/ early spring months because of the American food and the Aussie owner. One specimen I was lucky enough to speak with relived his glory days as a geoscientist in Greenland. We did not have much…

Drones have been the hot topic of the last few years. They have many advantages that we humans do not have. They range from a backyard activity to an important war aspect. They also have gotten better as the years go on ranging from pocket drones to drones bigger than a human itself. Drones have positively affected society by their effect, advantage, and cost. Drones have been used since WWI and have developed greatly throughout recent years. The first drones in WWI would be catapulted to their…

Such sites of cultural mobility where Ali discusses about ‘Bhairavi’ and ‘ghazal’ opens window to rich excavation from the exotic east. In the poem “The Season of the Plains” from his volume The Half Inch Himalayas Ali make mention of the ‘Banaras thumri-singers’. The verbal structure relates to an art form which defines the unique style originated in Banaras. The poet’s language here is referential of a region that relates to its musical tradition. For a western reader ‘Banaras thumri singers’…

The impact of war can be both detrimental and restorative to not only people, but the environment as well. Aside from culture growing and nations expanding, the outcome of a war can also influence and be influenced by geography. The history of all warfare can give us the facts, but geography can open up new windows of opportunities for learning about what society does not already know. War and geography go hand in hand including political, physical, economic, and human subgroups. The result…

and colonial rivalry in order have the safety and power to move freely amongst the ocean in exploration of new lands. Improvement as stated in (Kennedy, 1987, p. 29) that is derived from the arms race and the scramble to trade would be improved cartography, navigational tablets, new instruments like the telescope, barometer, back staff, and gimbaled compass, and better methods of ship building helped make maritime travel less unpredictable form of travel. Furthermore, due to the rapid expansion…

spread over a territory bigger than the Holy Roman Empire. Turkish cities were advanced. They had street light and a draining systems. Some even had libraries and universities. With their knowledge, the Ottoman Turks advanced in fields such as cartography, medicine, and many others in science and industry category. With a strong military and advanced society it is no wonder why the Ottoman empire was as strong as it was and why it was considered one of the best of its…

travel the sea which was a major achievement in the history of navigation. One of those achievement was the astrolabe which is “an instrument used in navigation for calculating latitude” (Civilization Past and Present, 128).They also invented the cartography and the portolan chart, that made possible to plot courses across seas and “(…) provide a glimpse into the practical world of sea travel” (Pflederer, 21). The Portuguese were very advance in naval technologies, they invented compasses, they…

2.4 Quality of Edible Bird Nest Since the process of harvesting EBN is often painstaking and dangerous, the technique of harvesting the EBN will be influenced by the cave site and the height above ground or water bed thus the quality of the EBN are influence by how is the EBN are harvested (Leh, 2001; Marcone, 2005). Human harvest the EBN three times per year and each harvest are on the different weather which is the first period is on January to April, second period is on May to August and the…

An Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Empirical Spain The European continent as a whole boasts an impressive list of nations and cultures of times past and present that dominated the world. One nation in particular, Spain, held a fairly impressive empire worth noting from the Fifteenth century to roughly the late Seventeenth, early eighteenth century. What is important about each Empire that the world has seen is what allowed it to become an empire; what allowed the nation to prosper and expand,…

Inclusion. An ideology that has taken time for historians to understand. A narrative of the World’s history has existed for centuries untouched only until recently. This narrative is recycled over time and told over and over again despite it often being false. Historians like Francis Jennings and Michael Witgen use their scholarship research to combat a false representation of Native Americans in history. Using historiography, these two authors, like many others, look to disprove what's been…