Geography

The article I chose is called “The Arctic has lost so much ice that now people want to race yachts through it.” This article relates to the 5 themes of geography because it uses and is involved in location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions. The article has an overall discussion about how the sea ice covering the top of the world reached the lowest maximum extent yet observed in winter, when ice is at its peak. This means that in the last four years, Arctic sea ice has…

In the Latin America area, physical geography has played an important role in the economic development in Latin America. The Latin America area consists of the entire continent of South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands. (Background Info.) These lands were once civilized by the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. (Doc 1) After the Inca civilization had almost left, the population dropped 16 million people from 1532 - 1608. (Doc 2) The Inca civilized in the more…

The Rome we know today is much different than it was when it first started. When it first started it was all about geography. One major part of geography was the Tiber River, it supplied water and a way to travel. This was a big bonus because it was far enough away from the sea so they could escape the pirate attacks and raids. The seven mountains were also a huge bonus because we're able to protect themselves against further attacks. With Rome being a place where people could easily cross…

The novel Into the wild by Jon Krakauer is about a graduate student from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The graduate student, Christopher Johnson Mccandless, decides that his life isn’t right for him so he journeys to Alaska in hope of being able to live in peace. On May 12, 1990, he tells his parents that he was going to be going on a road trip using his yellow Datsun, but he was actually planning on leaving and not coming back. Later that year during June, he sends his final college…

In developing countries there are more and more multinational companies which tried to develop their business, but this situation that would had influence to personal, local companies and living, even government, political or society environment (BBC). For granted the positive and negative of impact are simultaneously, the positive that the multinational companies improved the country economics and increased freedom on marketing. In contrast, there are negative effect to society such as a…

As a small country, without the global supply chain, NZ would not be creating or selling the large variety of goods that are available to us on a daily basis. Globalisation opens the door to an extended market and range of different products and services that suit a variety of different demands. Businesses seek to gain a competitive advantage over others in the market, by constantly following and keeping up with ever changing consumer demands (Cattaneo et al., 2016). In order to achieve this,…

Introduction: Globalization is the process of global economic and political integration which connects countries with the facilitation of global communications. As technology rapidly developed in the past centuries, trade globalization accelerated. Global trade becomes economically and politically important to all countries. As more and more developing and low-income countries enter into the global integration, there is always an ongoing debate on the relationship between globalization and…

Reflection Helping Them or Hurting them During the past years, there has been a lot of material and perspectives regarding the role of aid from developed nations to developing nations. How the undeveloped nations need to look up to the developed ones and follow their lead, do exactly as they did. The common factor about this week’s readings is that every country needs to walk their own path towards development. Here, I would like to emphasize their own path. For instance, how each…

When was the last time you bought an article of clothing? When was the last time you wore it? The industry of fashion has a more sinister story behind it than most people may realise, but the mistreatment and abuse of fashion industry workers cannot be heard. Asking the question of how our clothes are made and who makes it is simple enough, but would we as a society ever have thought that the people that make them for us live in extremely poor conditions? Children and Developing Countries are…

Foreign aid is the international transfer of capital, goods, or services from a country or international organization for the benefit of the recipient country or its population. Aid can be economic, military, or emergency humanitarian (Williams 2015). Aid has long been recognized as crucial to help poor developing nations grow out of poverty. Peace and war has the significant effect of distribution of foreign aid in the developing countries. The distribution of foreign aids is effected in…