the historical or contemporary informing the journalists perspective

Essay, Geography

Newspaper Article Analysis Paper (and Proposal) Guidelines

Please write a 6-7 page paper (with one-inch margins in double-spaced 12 point font Times or the equivalent) that analyzes a recent (from 2002 or later) newspaper article about Japan from a reputable newspaper. (Note: You must choose an article that was not assigned for this class.) You must draw on two readings by recognized scholars of Japan to analyze this newspaper article. One of these articles or edited book chapters should be a scholarly essay assigned for this class (NOT another assigned newspaper article). The other article or edited book chapter should be a scholarly essay that you find on your own and that is relevant to the subject matter of the newspaper article.

The paper should consider how the two essays can help us interpret this newspaper article in terms of its a) subject matter, and b) the journalists perspective. For instance, you might consider what the essays reveal about: the historical or contemporary informing the journalists perspective; the factors or issues s/he overlooks (and the bias s/he thus suggests); and whether or not the article is convincing or problematic (or both) on these accounts.

Compare and contrasts the anatomy and physiology of blood vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries

1. Compare and contrasts the anatomy and physiology of blood vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries. Why are these differences significant in the overall function of the circulatory system? Please be specific.
2. Provide several examples of factors that cause increases or decreases in peripheral resistance and discuss their effect on overall arterial blood pressure.

Lymphatic and Immune Systems
Utilizing knowledge from your learning and assigned readings, respond to the following questions:
1. Describe and define the differences between the lymphatic system and immunity.
2. How do the innate and adaptive immune systems differ in their responses to foreign substances? Provide examples of each system.

1. Briefly identify and discuss the anatomical and structural differences between arteries and veins.
2. Briefly identify and discuss differences between blood and lymphatic vessels.
3. View the anatomical models Figure 32.3,Figure 32.4,Figure 32.8,Figure 32.10,Figure 32.13,and Figure 35.1 (a)from your Laboratory Manual and identify the structures that are described by the following abbreviated statements. Post your brief responses in the threaded Discussion Area below.
a. Drains the stomach, pancreas, and spleen to the liver for detoxification
b. Two paired arteries serving the brain
c. Formed by the union of the radial and ulnar arteries
d. Drains head, neck, and upper extremities
e. What the external iliac artery becomes in the thigh
f. Join to form the inferior vena cava
g. Receives lymph from the circulation
h. Filtering clusters under the arm
i. Enlarged terminus of the thoracic duct
4. View the histology slides Figure 32.1 (a)and (b)in your Laboratory Manual and identify the microscopic structures indicated by a leader line, number, or bracket. In the threaded Discussion Area below, briefly describe the function of:
a. Figure 32.1 (a) artery and vein
b. Figure 32.1 (b) tunica media
c. Figure 32.1 (b) capillary network

What is the name of the landform at the mouth of the Mississippi river as it enters the sea?

Geography, Answer questions

GEOG 1216 – Autumn 2016 developed by Helen Hazen 1 In-Class Activity 5: Drainage Basin Characteristics Google Earth A. Mississippi Delta Fly to New Orleans 1. Zoom in until you can identify the individual canals and levees that make up the city’s Hurricane Protection System. Look for floodgates at the edge of the city. How does this levee system protect the city from flooding; why is it needed? How might it actually make the effects of flooding worse? 2. Fly to the Lower Ninth Ward. Check the ‘imagery date’ at the bottom of the screen to see whether these pictures are pre- or post-Katrina. What proportion of this neighborhood has been rebuilt? Think of TWO advantages of rebuilding this neighborhood in the same place after the hurricane and TWO disadvantages. 3. Identify the Mississippi river flowing through New Orleans. How do you know that this is the lower course of the Mississippi river? 4. Follow the Mississippi to the coast and look for its distributaries. What is the name of the landform at the mouth of the Mississippi river as it enters the sea? Explain in no more than TWO sentences the processes that form this landform. How has the construction of levees around New Orleans influenced the lower course of the Mississippi drainage basin? 5. See if you can find evidence of the canals built by the petrochemical industry along the Louisiana coast. How do you know that the canals you are looking at are not naturally occurring? GEOG 1216 – Autumn 2016 developed by Helen Hazen 2 B. Amazon Basin Fly to the Amazon River where it meets the Atlantic 1. Look at the complex and extensive system of distributaries at the river’s mouth. Use the “measure” tool in the upper toolbar to measure the length of one of the larger islands in the mouth of the river. Compare this to the length or width of a place you are familiar with to get a sense of the huge scale of the Amazon River. 2. Follow the Amazon upriver towards Manaus. How would you characterize the gradient of the land around Manaus from clues you got from looking at the river (i.e., don’t just look at the elevation figures at the bottom of the screen!)? 3. At Manaus the Rio Negro joins the main Amazon channel. Note the very different colors of these two rivers. How can you explain this difference in color? Provide a hypothesis for why the two rivers do not mix immediately. 4. Fly west along the main course of the river until you reach the Lago do Tomaniqua. What is this feature? Explain in a few sentences how this feature formed. 5. Continue upriver until you reach the Peruvian border and then the town of Iquitos. Look at the characteristics of the river at this point. Does the river appear to be lower, middle, or upper course at this point? What evidence did you use to come to this conclusion? What does this tell us about the gradient of the Amazon drainage basin? GEOG 1216 – Autumn 2016 developed by Helen Hazen 3 6. Keep following a tributary upriver until you notice a change in the landscape that implies that you have reached the upper course of the river. How do you know that you are now in the upper course of the river? 7. Zoom out to identify exactly where you are in South America. What can you now conclude about the location of the continental divide in South America? 8. Try to locate some rivers that flow westwards from the Andes to the Pacific. How are these rivers different from the Amazon? Explain why these rivers differ so significantly in their capacity. C. Nile Valley Fly to the point where the Nile meets the Mediterranean 1. What formation is found at the mouth of the Nile? 2. Egyptologists have had difficulties finding some ancient cities that are described in ancient texts as situated on distributaries in the Nile Delta. One of your Egyptology colleagues explains that he knows that the city of Tanis is supposed to be on the banks of one of the Nile’s distributaries but that he has searched satellite footage and cannot find evidence of this settlement along any of the Nile’s distributaries on the current satellite maps. As a physical geographer, explain to your Egyptology colleague why he may be looking for Tanis in the wrong place. GEOG 1216 – Autumn 2016 developed by Helen Hazen 4 3. Find the Aswan Dam. How do you think the damming of the Nile has affected the characteristics of the river? Think about water and sediment characteristics in your answer. 4. In which two distinct regions does the Nile rise? (Follow the “White Nile” and the “Blue Nile.”) What characteristics of these regions help to explain why they receive more abundant precipitation than most of the course of the Nile? D. Ganges/Brahmaputra River Basin Fly to the Ganges delta in Bangladesh 1. Fly over Bangladesh, keeping an eye on the elevation figures (‘elev’) at the bottom of the screen. Look also at the shape of the coastline and the layout of watercourses in the country. List THREE explanations related to physical geography that may help account for why Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world. 2. Travel upriver from the delta, past Dhaka, to where the Brahmaputra and Indus rivers divide. Follow the eastern branch of the river (the Brahmaputra) to the Indian border. Zoom in until you can see the details of the river channel. What type of river formation is this? What is the key factor that is essential for the creation of this type of riverbed? 3. Follow one or more of the Brahmaputra’s tributaries as far upriver as possible. Where does the Brahmaputra River rise? What sorts of landscape features can you identify in this part of the river’s course? Apart from monsoon rains, what provides a significant additional source of water for the Brahmaputra?

What does your map emphasize or minimize as compared to the google map?

Geography

((1) A. How does Yi-Fu Tuan distinguish the related concepts of “space” and “place”?
B. In his piece on “Place-Identity”, Proshansky describes the way that the particular characteristics of the places we haved lived, and the social meanings assigned to them, shape our identities as people. Using examples from the film “Style Wars”, describe some of the ways that the people in the film had their identities shaped by the places they were from, and the ways they in turn tried to give these places a “personality” according to the specific values of their cultures and subcultures.

2)Feinberg, in his article “Drawing the Coral Heads”, describes the creation of a written “mental map” of the area around a Polynesian island by locals, based on local knowledge and oral traditions.
A. Without looking at a real map, draw a map of a place that you know well, setting a timer for at least ten minutes and filling in as much detail as you can in that time. Don’t worry how accurate it is. It can be a neighborhood, campus, or a whole city or town, or any scale you choose.
B. When you are finished, compare it to a “real” map of the area in google maps. What differences do you observe between the two? What does your map emphasize or minimize as compared to the google map? What does this tell you about your “place-identity”? Please bring the map to class.))

Environmental Geography Mid-term

Environmental Geography Mid-term

Individuals or teams will write a paper (1,500 or 2,000 words respectively) on a subject of their choosing based on the first half of the courses content (i.e. environmentalism in the past). The paper should demonstrate not just knowledge of course concepts, but understanding of those concepts. To display such understanding, papers should include discussion and analysis of course concepts including the connections between concepts. Papers will be graded on content rather than on writing quality, but strong writing will inevitably convey your conceptual understanding more clearly than poor writing! Sources must be cited, but you are free to use any citation style as long as it is consistent throughout the paper.

Develop an evaluation of how this article demonstrates the reterritorialization of popular music.

Geography

Fouberg and his colleagues (2015) suggest that in the era of globalization, cultural diffusion is a much more guided process than the previous diffusion of cultural traits such as language. On page 231 of the textbook, they discuss the infrastructure that is behind the production of popular culture. Despite these global processes of diffusion, however, local culture remains relevant. For example, aspects of popular culture such as music will take on new forms by the people and culture of a local place.

The reterritorialization of popular culture is defined in Human Geography: People, Place and Culture, to be “… a process by which people start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and place, and making it their own.” (Fouberg et al.: 231).

The objective of this assignment is to consider the process of reterritorialization using the example of popular music. Three journal articles are available on Nexus that examine the diffusion and adaptation in a local setting of 1) world music, 2) hip hop and 3) heavy metal. Choose one of these articles to accomplish the following:

Provide a succinct summary of the article outlining (a) the overall objective, (b) the main discussion points and (c) conclusion;
Develop an evaluation of how this article demonstrates the reterritorialization of popular music.

escribe the atmospheric conditions that are favorable for the development of a hurricane.

Geography Essay

Please write 2-3 pages essay for each topic.
Please read Essay Guidelines and use Suggested Sources.
Please NO Plagiarism.
First topic: Describe the development of Santa Ana Winds in southern California. Include in your discussion: pressure systems, wind directions, obstacles, heating and desiccating sources, and all climatic and topographic factors affecting the development of these winds.

Second topic: Describe the atmospheric conditions that are favorable for the development of a hurricane. Include in your discussion the source of energy for hurricanes, factors that tend to weaken hurricanes, and typical values for the following hurricane characteristics: diameter, location and size of the eye, direction of rotation and speed of winds, central pressure, direction, and speed of movement and duration. Additionally, describe why these types of storms produce so much rain.

What is meant by the terms core, peripheral, and semi-peripheral regions?

Geography HW

Analyze a security issue surrounding globalization. Describe the security issue, and based upon what you learned within this unit, provide at least two probable solutions to this global security problem. Explain how the high degree of interdependence of nations today impacts the security problem you discussed.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

2.

“A sense of place” refers to the feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories they associate with a place and to the symbolism they attach to that place (Knox & Marston, 2015, p. 23). Write about a specific place that matters to you. Describe the place. Discuss the significance of the place to you. Discuss the impact the place has on you.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

3.

What is meant by the terms core, peripheral, and semi-peripheral regions? Name at least one country that fits into each of the three regions, and explain why the country you named fits into that particular region.

ow will Palestinians want israel to join the west bank and the Gaza strip so that Palestinians don't have to pass through Israeli territory to go from one part of their country to the other?

Essay, Geography

1- How will Palestinians want israel to join the west bank and the Gaza strip so that Palestinians don't have to pass through Israeli territory to go from one part of their country to the other? 2- Where would the Palestinians propose to locate the connection? 3- How could the Palestinians guarantee it would not become a source area for terrorism against Israel?

When he goes back to the computer, what does he show us and how will this be possible?

Geography

Watch this video and answer the following questions in a 500 word essay (double spaced, 12″ font). Remember, a 500 word essay is about two to three paragraphs, or about a full page.

Describe how he discusses demography. What tools does he use?

What does he say about the world? Where have we added people? How many are rich and poor? What is happening to the developing nations, like China?

Who is expected to grow the most, population-wise? What can we do about it, according to Hans Rosling, if anything?

When he goes back to the computer, what does he show us and how will this be possible?

Then, read short case study article on Thomas Malthus, above, and be prepared to discuss in class Thursday. Remember, you are being graded on participation – and so far, you are a quiet class.