My global issue is geopolitics. Geopolitics is politics, dealing with international relations, that are influenced by geographical factors. Some factors that have to do with geopolitics are climate, demography, natural disasters, and the elevation of an area. Another major role is arms trade.Arms trade is a major cause of human rights abuse. Some governments spend more on military spending than on social development, communications infrastructure and health combined. While every nation has the right and the need to ensure its security in these changing times, arms requirements and obtaining processes may need to change too.The arms trade is also a big business. Each year, around $45-60 billion worth of arms sales are agreed("Geopolitics." …show more content…
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, extreme weather conditions, hurricanes, floods, and other acts of nature and geopolitical events involving terrorism or military conflict could adversely affect business actions and those of their customers and cause damage and loss property. These natural disasters and geopolitical events could impair their borrowers ability to service their loans, decrease the level and duration of deposits by customers, erode the value of loan quantity, and result in an increase in the amount of their non-performing loans and a higher level of non-performing assets, net charge-offs, and provision for loan losses, which could adversely affect their earnings. Disaster unleashes misery upon human being and challenges the foundation of civilization based on science and technology. However, at the same time, it opens the window of cooperation with the people or the nations facing the similar …show more content…
This has resulted in the concerns of political geography increasingly overlapping with those of other human geography sub-disciplines such as economic geography, and particularly with those of social and cultural geography in relation to the study of the politics. Although contemporary political geography maintains many of its traditional concerns the multi-disciplinary expansion into related areas is part of a general process within human geography which involves the blurring of boundaries between formerly discrete areas of
A: The study of geopolitics adds environmental contexts, locational considerations, spatial assumptions, and territorial ideas and arrangements to political science. Also, geopolitics helps people understand the spatial power arrangements that form international relations.
As the United States was gaining nationalism, they began to consider expanding their boundaries once they began demanding for it. As the ideas of Manifest Destiny quickly spread during the early 19th century, the patriots of obtaining the nation’s “destined” lands were more aggressive than passive through their expansionist policies, disregard towards minorities, and the effects that these policies would later reveal.
A psammosere is a serial community; an ecological succession that began life on newly exposed coastal sand. Most common psammoseres are sand dune systems.
Through reading How the States Got Their Shapes and Guns, Germs, and Steel I would define human geography as the study of how different factors such as culture, lifestyle, geography, and environment dictate where humans live and migrate. Both books are able to connect how the latter factors influence the pattern of human activity and movement.
Imperialism is a policy of extending a country power or influence through either military or by trade. Imperialism was a legitimate policy for the United states to follow in the beginning of the nineteenth century, because it spread Christianity, increase economic power and profits and it benefit the weaker countries that united states take over.
In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, it explores the idea that in war, people are actually killing their brothers. This theme is portrayed through the use of irony and imagery. Initially, the author uses death imagery to emphasize the scene of the story, “with the machine gunner’s head hanging lifelessly over the turret. The woman’s corpse lay still in the gutter.” This quote gives the reader a visualization of the street in the story where everything is lifeless, silent and depressing.
55). This is because things like a small flood would effect croplands differently than an urban center. A crop my actually benefit from silt deposits but the New York Stock Exchange would not. However, when disasters increase in scale they almost always have a significant impact on the economy (World Bank & United Nations, 2010, p. 55). Unfortunately, even though these impacts may be short-term there are third order effects on the economy. After Hurricane Katrina many areas were completely abandoned but many more were bought by developers pushing out the lower income populations, completely changing the local economy. This also highlights the different effect that disasters have on different demographics. As an example, the economies of developing countries are effected more by disasters then those of developed nations (World Bank & United Nations, 2010, p. 56). Although this may be because of population density or lack of infrastructure, it shows that demographics as well as the disaster itself have influence over the impact on local economy and
The transport in Melbourne has changed and developed throughout the years. Transport is a predominant part of the Melbourne city, and is relied upon by millions. Transport in Melbourne consists of extensive networks and a wide variety of transport services available to the public, including:
Economic and development of any area is always and always will be interrupted by disasters big and small. These disasters can have a big impact on the economy by destroying businesses, homes, and damage property. As disaster pose a challenge to up and coming or existing developments or communities there are ways to possibly help damage and lose such as not building in a flood zone and moving to higher elevation. Disasters can have an effect on families to.
This semester I learned that there are four different branches of human geography. First to define the different geographies: social, has to do with society and what that regions society values. An example of this would be school systems. Cultural geographies has to do with symbolic practices and shared sets of meaning, a simple example of this could be in Italy, most people are Roman Catholic, and share those values. Political, is the type of government that county has, for example North Korea is communist. Lastly, economic, is that countries economy, for example Greece, currently is in an economic crisis.
Completely out of human control, natural disasters take their toll on people by destroying properties and crops, as well as killing people. There have been many tornadoes in the past, because of these events there are now better warning systems and rebuilding programs. After hurricanes, many people open up their homes for people in need. There are also many large-scale refugee centers that help people that have lost everything due to a hurricane. Adversity brings out a kindness and generosity that is not always present until a storm wakes people up to the needs of others. A man-made storm can also bring an awaking to American society.
A disaster can hurt the economy in two ways. It can reduce supply, that is, it
In the last century, there have been approximately 13 hurricanes to hit the United States’ landfall (Citation). Many of these hurricanes don't only have a social impact, but also have an economic impact on the United States. However, the question is how impactful does a natural disaster have to be to cripple the United States, or can it help improve the economy? One crucial factor in the economy is the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate is a common measurement for determining the health of an economy. Unemployment has a negative effect on the economy because it leads to higher payments from state and federal government for unemployment benefits, food assistance, and Medicaid. Not only is the government helping unemployed individuals
In his speech titled “Donald Trump RNC Draft Speech,” given in Cleveland to the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, Republican nominee Donald Trump attempts convince Republican delegates and others watching to elect him to the office of President on the United States of America based on his assessment of the US’s problems, the failures of Democrats, notably Hillary Clinton, and his plans to right the nation. Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president. Delivering a speech where he remarks the America's struggles with crime, terrorism and immigration. He plans to address them. Trump then states that Democrats are not truthful they democrats are full of lies and he gives an example saying that he presents the facts of what is occurring in and how he would fix it. Trump argued that the United States declined by the Obama administration blaming democrats and immigrants and Hillary Clinton. He gives to the audience a vision of how America is in chaos. The US has problems with crime, immigration, unemployment, and foreign affairs. Trump use emotion in the speech by saying that Hillary has done a horrible job a secretary of the state. Trump’s plans. Hillary is a criminal. the election system is rigged. Trump will fix crime, the economy, education, and equality. He compares himself to Hillary by saying that she created the terrorist groups. Trump said that he would fix tax laws, education, vets, Supreme Court, religion. reinforces plan. Make America Great Again (Trump). While Trump is an expert on the economy, because of his exaggerations, intimidating language, and exposing his political opponents, his speech is an ineffective argument.
Natural disasters are anything from floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, or anything else nature could develop that causes massive amounts of damage, or cause a large losses of life. Such events are not anything caused because of human beings, but only by the actions of atmospheric conditions, or due to the changes of continental drifts that these disasters occur. Technology has come a long way since the early days before the industrial revolution where predictions can be made and warnings can be issued. This helps reduce the amount of possible loss of lives that would occur in 21st century. However, that is not what happened during Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 Hurricane.