The Cultural Aspect Of The Region

In the absence of a Local Tourism Organisation, the City has stepped into the destination marketing space and continues to deliver a dedicated destination marketing strategy for Albany and the surrounding region. The City is the leading tourism and destination marketing organisation in Albany, with the Amazing Albany region defined as destinations within a half day’s trip of Albany and not local government boundaries. This includes the neighbouring towns such as Denmark, Mount Barker, Plantagenet and Walpole.

In chapter five, we discussed several things on geography such as: ecology, the interaction of geography, demography, and environment. In the textbook they defined ecology as “the science concerned with the interactions between living things and their environment.” Human ecology which “is the part of ecology that deals with the way in which human societies adjusts to their environment. Ecological balance “is the term applied to the state achieved when plant or animal species, with its own characteristics and needs, has adjusted to its environment and survived, and when other species, which have likewise adjusted to the environment, prevent it from expanding indefinitely and from crowding them out. The environment is the sum `of all the external influences that impinge on the human organism. Geography is a social science that focuses on the spatial

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. I believe that it is the story of different people’s movement and activity explained through geography, culture, and other similar stimuli. In How the States Got Their Shapes Stein explains how different conflicts, landscapes, customs, and beliefs influenced the creation of each state.

Raymond Williams (Hutchison, 2011) said “culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language” (p. 247). When I thought of culture, I used to picture food, festivities, clothes and country. Just like the nurse, I thought that if learned about one culture, I understood everybody in that culture. But as I started expanding my knowledge the meaning of culture started becoming harder to define. Different subjects seemed to have different definitions of what culture is. The idea expanded until it was not just a check list but “a set of common understandings, manifest in act and artifact. It is in two places at once: inside somebody’s head as understandings and in the external environment as act and artifact” (Hutchison, 2011, p. 246). The definition above explains why social workers need to learn cultural humility. It clarifies that because culture is both behavior and act, it is interpreted differently by different people. In other words, two people can be from the same exact place and still have different cultures.

As mentioned above, the most shocking thing I noticed was the community, or the way they socialized with and accepted themselves and each other. I think

Geography influences culture in many ways. A civilizations geography determines what kind of god(s) they believe in as well as influences from other cultures. These features provide a stepping stone for cultures that are solely based on geography.

The Huntsville Museum of Art had three interesting pieces of art. Two where paintings by Antoine Ponchin and the third most meaningful to me was a sculpture you saw as soon as you walked in. These pieces of art to me are not like the impressionist or art like the cardboard box. These were pieces that spoke or said something when looking at them. The sculpture was incredibly moving to me personally when looking at it.

My cultural background is American, Jewish, Israeli. My grandparents are from Austria and Romania. Times were tough for the Jews living in Europe, so fortunately my father's parents came to America in time for a safe haven, while my mother's parents had to bear the holocaust. After WW2, my grandparents would rotate between living in America and Israel, which is why I was born into a Zionistic and modern orthodox family. Years ago, an American living in Israel lived a pleasant life. I remember them telling me they once got around 100 shekels for the American dollar and now you only get maybe 4. My parents sent me to the Hebrew Academy of New City in order for me to learn American and Jewish values. Even though I was barely exposed to Austrian

When I began this assignment, I knew I wanted to try out a culture I know practically nothing about. I love Chinese and Japanese food, so I decided to turn in the direction of sitting at a restaurant with Chinese/Asian cuisine. This was a simple sit-down dinner that did not occur on any special day like holidays. The setting that I chose was a Cantonese restaurant located in Elmwood Park called “New Star Restaurant”. While I walked in, I noticed a variety of gift items such as porcelain turtles, buddhas, Maneki Neko (welcoming cat), pandas, etc. There was a lot of red and gold decor in the interior of the restaurant. The people of this culture are very strong believers in good fortune, good health, and family. The red means success in relationships

The highlight of my week was the cultural geography test because I got 100% on that test. My highlight is that I took like 3 quizzes/tests and I think I did pretty well on all of them. The low-light of my week was having to run on Friday because I am really tired. My low-light is that my eyes were red Thursday and Friday because I was allergic to something and also I was really tired this week. I am really tired today because I had Techbridge yesterday and then I had family night for Techbridge after that and finally I ate and then did y homework which made me stay up till about 11 o'clock at night because I had quite a few things to do for homework last night. I didn't really have a weird-light this week because mainly everything was normal

One of the classes I think I've grown in is Cultural Geography because I was not doing that well in that class. My grade in that class was a F. But, at the end of the Semester I was doing better than the beginning and I brought my grades up to a passing grade. Another class I think I've grown in is English because in the beginning I was not passing the class but at the middle of the Semester I was doing better. At the end of Semester I was passing the class. The Habit of Heart and Mind I think I've improved most on is that I do my homework and studying for a test. That helps me to do better at my test and have a good grade. The Habit of Heart and Mind I am using more now is doing my homework every single day. I have gotten better at the habit

For the second cultural activity, I watched an Arabic makeup tutorial by Huda Kattan. I chose this activity because I have tried makeup products from her brand “Huda Beauty,” and when coming across makeup tutorials she always had very high ratings. After looking more into Huda Beauty, I found out that the company is owned by her and her two sisters. Although she was born in the US both of her parents are Iraqi and her mother was born in one of the wealthiest families in Baghdad.

If I taught Cultural Geography, I would change many things because it is important to learn new things each week. I would teach one subject every week for the rest of the week and have a mini quiz on Friday about it. I would make sure my students stayed on task and actually learn what the topic is. It is important for them to learn new things and remember them. In order for my students to be successful, I would make sure the class is not boring. I would teach a different country every week, watch videos about it, and read articles about it. Then when the end of the week comes on Friday we would have a mini quiz about that country. In order to help students learn and to earn their trust, I would get to know them first and ask them about

When does the symbol of someone’s historical heritage and regional identity become unacceptable due to the same symbol being found offensive and representative of the oppressed heritage of someone else? Recently at the University of Mississippi the topic as to continue flying the state flag was put to a vote. The Associated Student Body voted to remove the flag from any and all buildings on campus; the chancellor ultimately decided that the Associated Student Body was right in this decision. The appropriateness of the Confederate flag has become a major point of dispute in this country. In the state of Mississippi, however, the argument is complicated by the fact that the state flag itself incorporates the Confederate flag into its

In the following bodies, I will lay out how place is defined in a sense of how it is related to people, state on how people make places, and propose how persons transform places. Along with these points, I will use texts to support my given answers.