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    or next, and I am going to study very hard to earn a score that I will both be satisfied with and one that I can gain benefits from, such as scholarships and a higher chance of being accepted into a prestigious university. I have taken the AP Human Geography test, so I have some experience with more difficult and intensive tests. Furthermore, in the aforementioned test there was a writing section that counted for a large portion of our grade. While it didn’t take into consider grammar, writing structure

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    Nechama Yardley A.P. Human Geography Free Response Questions 10/26/16 1. A. For Von Thunen’s model, the type of land that the model is based on is agricultural land. The model shows that there is more intensive rural land uses closer to the market and more extensive lands farther from the market. The model is a concentric circle model with a town in the center then dairy, forestry, crops with and without fallow, three field systems, grazing, and wilderness sections. Von Thunen’s model uses

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    Montgomery 1 William Montgomery November 17, 2016 Into to Human Geography The Apple IPhone The product that I choose for my commodity chain project was the Apple IPhone that has been one of the most popular cell phone devices since its initial release in June of 2007. The idea around me picking the iPhone revolved around the fact that I have owned every generation Apple IPhone since the first generation IPhone release and am very familiar with its technology and background. In the initial part

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    mind began wondering down this Geography journey. So once I got the first assignment about the Expanded Application if GIS and GPS, I was stomped. So of course that's exactly where I started my research. First thing I looked up was what is GIS or Graphic Information Systems. "A GIS combines visual data concerning information about shapes, sizes, and locations that can be analyzed" (Wikipedia 2016). A GPS also known as global positioning system uses

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    Twenty-first century is defined by globalization, something Thomas L. Friedman unquestionably agrees with in his book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Globalization can immediately be correlated with businesses, but such should not be the case in this circumstance. Globalization, as a matter of fact, also takes its effect on cultures worldwide. For example, thanks to globalization, western cultures are able to perceive the cultures of other countries around the world

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    world we live in. It only takes one great idea to change the world and make it a better place for everyone. Human geography deals with how human actions influence and impact other humans and the world’s environment. Human geography teaches us that everyday people’s actions impact

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    implants (2009). What of humans using an artificial vision system to regain sight after going blind? What of humans having an artificial robotic arm after an accident? These are real-life situations where humans and non-humans are made one entity. Therefore, it will be preposterous to think that this human and non-human divide is relevant in the contemporary time. So, with the examples illustrated above, it will be out of place to assume that humans are separable from non-humans because the two are networked

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    Demoko. Geography is not just one thing it covers all of the human phenomana. (doc 8) "geography is about recognizing and understanding the interdependence among places and regions." Paul L. Knox. Geography is world wide, humans need to understand it first before it is categorize to one thing. (doc 10) "Geography a representation of the whole known world together." Greek ptolemy. From these documents geography means it is not just about one thing it is about who and why and when. geography means

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    decisions, and particularly those consequences that alter human–environment relations" (Mayer, 2006. Appendix C). Dr. Mayer also notes in his article "the integration of power into the understanding of disease dynamic has thus been neglected from several dimensions, and the article represents and attempt at developing a framework for such integration" (Mayer, 1996. p. 443). Dr. Mayer mentions that the traditional approaches of medical geography comprise "studies of health service delivery and studies

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    suggest that humans’ position is privileged and unique among other beings, including non-humans. Challenging this centrality of humans’ position has been the focus of the posthumanist agenda in human geography; inspired and advocated by scholars, including Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway (Latour, 2004 cited in Anderson, 2014). As succinctly echoed by Anderson, the critical goal of posthumanism is to challenge the deep-seated discourse of humanism that “separate and elevates the humans from the natural

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