Geography In The Movie 'Matewan'

A background into the first film Matewan, tells the story of an incident in the struggle to unionize the Mingo County in the West Virginia coalfield. The film begins underground with a coalface being blown and the news is passed round that the Stone Mountain Company has imposed a wage cut. Joe Kenehan, the protagonist is a union organizer on his way to Matewan by train (Sayles, Renzi, & Rajski, 1987). The Matrix on the other hand depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by conscious machines to moderate the human population. Neo, the protagonist in Matrix, takes the 'red pill' and is reborn into the reality of Earth 2199, where he learns about the exploitation of humans (Wachowski et al., 1999).

Location is the first thing about the 5 themes of Geography, it tell where it is, Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, located in the Central and South Pacific ocean. The absolute and relative location of somewhere. In the atlas it

Scale- relationship between a specific place in the world, and the Earth as a whole.

Geography is the biggest part of a story. Every book, poem, short story, movie, play, and basically anything with a storyline has geography, it’s what makes a story good. Writers use geography to show readers a more indepth point of view of what they were thinking while writing. This is all stated in “Geography Matters” by Thomas C. Foster, he helps the readers realize how important geography is in their lives. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, geography is a big impact on people's lives and actions. After reading these stories it makes the readers think how much the location and people they grew up with impacted them. Furthermore, geography is a big part in any story as shown through “Geography Matters,” The Crucible, and my own life.

Since Geography is such an important part of a story it is used to shape and compose a general feel and mind set while reading the story. In the article “Geography Matters” Thomas C. Foster covers the importance and the influence that geography can have on a story. In one section he references the geography of “ Italy or Greece or Africa or Malaysia or Vietnam” and how when characters are sent “south, it’s so they can run amok”(Foster 179). Thomas’s words relay a bias about having characters go to those geological areas and so if those areas were to be used in a story it would shape the story to

Cronulla is a beachside suburb in southern Sydney, it is located 34.0574° S, 151.1522° E which is 26 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD (see figure 2). It is governed by the Sutherland Shire Council. Cronulla’s coastal environment is on the Kurnell Peninsula, which is made up of a tombolo. A tombolo is a sand spit connecting a rocky outcrop or island to the mainland. So this forms a barrier between Botany Bay and Bate Bay. The two areas of study visited were Wanda Beach and the Greenhills Beach development.

Geology- It is the study of the Earth, which materials compose it, and how they work together, their processes (earthquakes, floods, erosion) and changes that they have gone through (mountains emerging, valleys, etc.). It also studies the organisms that had been on earth (fossils). It is a wide subject that can be subdivided into fields such as minerology, petrology and so on.

D- is where a place is in the world. Location can be described as relative or absolute. Relative location is where a place is in comparison to another place.

1-Conquering poverty and disease must be a global effort. 2-If the nations of the world fail to lend a helping hand when tragedy strikes an individual country, the disastrous repercussions can spread globally. 3-Without outside funds supporting a country's economy during times of economic disaster, that country’s infrastructure might be at risk of a complete collapse. 4-When one country's economy falls, a domino effect can occur. 5-Thus, the global economy suffers when an individual country's economy falls. 6-Similarly, when disease ravages a country, that country's ability to care for its citizens becomes almost impossible. 7-Without emergency medical supplies from other countries and medical assistance from global organizations such

1. Four problem passages in Chapter 14 are firstly the "Two Accounts of Creation" which people believe there are contradictions in creation in regards to vegetation. Issue being that it states in Chapter 1 of Genesis that vegetation was created on the third day but in Genesis 2 it states that vegetation did not appear until the creation of Adam. The solution to this is that Chapter 2 is supporting Chapter 1 in giving more detail to vegetation in regards to the types and that their actual physical growth that can be seen was not until Adam was created but that plantation occurred as it states in Chapter 1 of Genesis. Thus man was created first and then vegetation followed. Second, "Cains Wife", the issue presents if Cain and Abel murdered one

In The American Geographies, Lopez says, “to really come to an understanding of a specific American geography, requires not only time but a kind of local expertise, an intimacy with place few of us ever develop” (Lopez 132). Many people on this planet do not truly know the external world they live in, for daily life centers itself around closed off situations in the societal world everyone falls into. School textbooks define geography in a dumbed down fashion and everyone perceives it as such, when true knowledge of the world and its geography comes from experience, from truly living in it. Going out and having adventures and experiences leads to an interesting and fulfilling life, rather than trusting the world fits in a textbook

The film Matewan, written and directed by John Sayles, depicts the small rural townof 1920's Mingo County, West Virginia as a society undergoing complete social unrest, a result of clashing ideals and economic systems. The film is an illustration of how different social systems come to be so intertwined that they cannot be defined independently of one another. Unfortunately for the people of Matewan, the feudalistic economic system imposed on them by the Stone Mountain Coal Company has come to dominate every facet of their existence, including their political system, their cultural identities, and even the environment in which they live. In order to try and take back control of their lives, the

     The film takes place in California. The location is nature, and the houses are big, they have big front and back yards. The location seems appropriate and realistic.

Madagascar's geography can be extremely intriguing. Madagascar is located in the continent of Africa and the capital of Antananarivo and positioned right in the middle of the eastern and southern hemisphere. This land mostly consists of waterfalls and forests such as Mt.Maromokotro and the Waterfalls of Mt.Andringitra. Madagascar is like any other place in this world, there's climate , animal life and vegetation. Here in America we have 4 seasons but it you take a flight to Madagascar , you will find out that Madagascar only has 2 seasons. The first is the hot an rainy season that lasts through the months of November to April , and the second season is the cool and dry season that lasts through the months of May through October. When Madagascar

By shooting the film in Alberta, Canada he finds himself able to outwardly pass on the subject of "geographic determinism." Through the cinematography, he delineates a Midwestern world with BIG mountains, persevering farmers, a focused domesticated animals industry, and rodeo as stimulation. Lee uses the mountains, a known physical obstruction, to cut off this piece of the United States from different ranges that are more dynamic and tolerating of the gay person way of life, therefore allowing the gathering of people to have knowledge into the outlook of the characters who were brought up in the