History, race, religion, identity, geography: The 2012 election county-level map has many stories to tell, including about the 2016 race.
Source: www.nytimes.com
The coverage of this election feels less objective than in past years (maybe that’s just my perception, but that is why I’ve shared less electoral resources than in past years). This article show’s good map analysis and electoral patterns without much of any ideological or partisan analysis of the political platforms.
“Vietnam’s success merits a closer look.”
Which Asian country has roared ahead over the past quarter-century, with millions of its people escaping poverty? And which Asian economy, still mainly rural, will be the continent’s next dynamo? Most would probably respond “China” to the first question and “India” to the second. But these answers would overlook a country that, in any other part of the world, would stand out for its past success and future promise.
Vietnam, with a population of more than 90m, has notched up the world’s second-fastest growth rate per person since 1990, behind only China. If it can maintain a 7% pace over the next decade, it will follow the same trajectory as erstwhile Asian tigers such as South Korea and Taiwan. Quite an achievement for a country that in the 1980s was emerging from decades of war and was as poor as Ethiopia.
Tags: Vietnam, globalization, development, economic, SouthEastAsia.
Source: www.economist.com
Here are just a handful of the 12 million men, women, and children who arrived at Ellis Island, New York, between 1892 and 1954 to start a new life in the USA, often dressed in their finest clothes. The portraits show immigrants wearing the national dress of their country of origin, including military uniforms from Albania, bonnets from the Netherlands, and clothing of Sámi people from the Arctic regions.
The photographs were taken between 1906 and 1914 by amateur photographer Augustus Francis Sherman, the chief registry clerk at Ellis Island, then the country’s busiest immigration station. In 1907 some of the photos were published by National Geographic.
Source: www.buzzfeed.com
These images show some of the diverse cultural backgrounds of turn-of-the-century American immigrants. The formal clothing that represents the folk cultures that they came from hint at the massive cultural shift that these immigrants must have experienced upon arriving to the United States. These photos of migrants wearing clothing representing their Old World lives right as they are about to culturally assimilate (or acculturate) into the New World are pictures I find quite poignant and personal.
Tags: culture, migration, historical, folk cultures, ethnicity, unit 3 culture.
With the percentage of U.S. adults who do not identify with a religious group growing, we asked these people to explain, in their own words, why they left.
Source: www.pewresearch.org
The United States’ population is becoming increasingly secularized. The U.S. used to be predominantly a white, Christian country but that is no longer the case. As religion becomes less of a factor in the lives of many individuals, it also has larger cultural ramifications.
Tags: culture, religion, USA, Christianity.
Start remembering your bathroom experiences again with our new handcrafted toilet paper. Inspired by the makers of yesterday and today.
Source: www.youtube.com
These spoofs are just for fun…but they are basic ways to start some conversations about how in our mass consumption society, we can wax nostalgic about how thing used to be better, but still enjoying modern comforts. Especially in agricultural practices, and this spoof of modern food concerns that we can see to some degree in the local and organic movements. Here is another spoof, mocking paleo and crossfit trends.
A week in the borderlands with migrants and guards.
Source: www.nytimes.com
This is not a political statement but a reiteration of the geographic realities of borders; they are inherently permeable and unite people just as much as they divide.
Source: www.youtube.com
When I watched this cartographic depiction of Indiana Jones’ adventures in Raiders of the Lost Ark as a kid, I was fascinated by the power of the map they used to segue between scenes. It heightened the level of mystery and intrigue; I felt as if a whole new world was opening up as I was living vicariously through Dr. Jones. This movie and its maps instilled in me a passion for global adventure, or at least a desire to learn about far off places…so get out there and explore.
Tags: mobility, transportation, tourism, mapping, place.
Miriam Nielsen will be teaching Human Geography on Crash Course. We’ll talk about what Human Geography isn’t, and what it is. Let’s talk about humans in the context of our world.
Source: www.youtube.com
Yesterday the popular video channel Crash Course announced that they would be producing a new series dedicated to human geography, much to the delight of APHG teachers everywhere (some wished it were John Green hosting the series, but I say we should give Miriam Nielsen a chance to win us over). I’m sure that as more videos are produced, I will tag them and include them here on Geography Education.
Tags: APHG, teacher training, edtech, video.
“Mount Everest is usually said to be the highest mountain on Earth. Reaching 29,035 feet at its summit, Everest is indeed the highest point above global mean sea level—the average level for the ocean surface from which elevations are measured. But the summit of Mt. Everest is not the farthest point from Earth’s center.
Earth is not a perfect sphere, but is a bit thicker at the Equator due to the centrifugal force created by the planet’s constant rotation. Because of this, the highest point above Earth’s center is the peak of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, located just one degree south of the Equator where Earth’s bulge is greatest. The summit of Chimborazo is 20,564 feet above sea level. However, due to the Earth’s bulge, the summit of Chimborazo is over 6,560 feet farther from the center of the Earth than Everest’s peak. That makes Chimborazo the closest point on Earth to the stars.
You may be surprised to learn that Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth, either. That honor belongs to Mauna Kea, a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mauna Kea originates deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, and rises more than 32,800 feet from base to peak.”
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
I’ve tried to answer this question without any visual aids and there is always at least one confused look in the class. This infographic is the most straightforward way to give the ‘long’ answer to a seemingly simple question, “what is the tallest mountain on Earth?” It all depends on how you measure it and what your reference point is.
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