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Donald Trump’s attacks on Muslims fit a pattern of persecution. Just ask Jews, Catholics and Mormons.

Persecuting religious minorities that are perceived as a political threat is a time-honored American tradition.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

This is not intended to be a political post, but one that reflects of the history of religious persecution in the United States.  If you find that to be a controversial political topic, so be it.  In the past, when Americans have suspected that a religious group is undermining it’s country’s free, democratic political order, we have demanded—often violently—some radical action against that group.  Let that past stay in the past.  

 

Tags: religionUSA, historical, conflict

How Many People Have Been Shot in Your Neighborhood This Year? This Map Will Tell You.

“Thanks to a nonprofit, nonpartisan project known as the Gun Violence Archive, data on gun homicides and nonfatal shootings is now available well before the federal government releases its statistics. Those data include location information that makes it possible to plot those shootings on a map showing how many have taken place in your vicinity.”

Source: www.slate.com

Perspectives of gun rights and public safety are highly divided.  Part of those divisions are ideological, but there are also big differences between urban and rural America.  This map of the NRA’s “report card” on the legislators of Congress shows some pretty powerful spatial patterns.  This interactive map of people how have been shot this year shows a decidedly differnt pattern that the first.  

 

Questions to Ponder: How do most people feel about the second amendment where you live?  What about your local geography might influence those opinions? 

How Many People Have Been Shot in Your Neighborhood This Year? This Map Will Tell You.

“Thanks to a nonprofit, nonpartisan project known as the Gun Violence Archive, data on gun homicides and nonfatal shootings is now available well before the federal government releases its statistics. Those data include location information that makes it possible to plot those shootings on a map showing how many have taken place in your vicinity.”

Source: www.slate.com

Perspectives of gun rights and public safety are highly divided.  Part of those divisions are ideological, but there are also big differences between urban and rural America.  This map of the NRA’s “report card” on the legislators of Congress shows some pretty powerful spatial patterns.  This interactive map of people how have been shot this year shows a decidedly differnt pattern that the first.  

 

Questions to Ponder: How do most people feel about the second amendment where you live?  What about your local geography might influence those opinions? 

Transportation Geography and Religious Greetings

Happy Hanukkah from Brooklyn! Card design by Cheryl Berkowitz, via Subway Art Blog.

 

Tagstransportation, Judaism, religionseasonal.

Source: nytransitmuseum.tumblr.com

Transportation Geography and Religious Greetings

Happy Hanukkah from Brooklyn! Card design by Cheryl Berkowitz, via Subway Art Blog.

 

Tagstransportation, Judaism, religionseasonal.

Source: nytransitmuseum.tumblr.com

Transportation Geography and Religious Greetings

Happy Hanukkah from Brooklyn! Card design by Cheryl Berkowitz, via Subway Art Blog.

 

Tagstransportation, Judaism, religionseasonal.

Source: nytransitmuseum.tumblr.com

Can You Guess Where You Are in 60 Seconds?

Can you guess where we are taking you today? Here’s a clue: This city’s name translates to “where the river narrows.”

Source: video.nationalgeographic.com

There is a delightfully simple premise to National Geographic video’s newest series: after seeing scenes from the cultural and physical landscapes of a place can you guess where in the world it is?  You can find more resources about this unnamed country (no cheating) here.   

Tags: images, placeculture, landscape, tourism

Are we better off than we think?

https://www.youtube.com/v/0fSiiAunc2A?fs=1&hl=fr_FR

“Despite global inequalities, most of the world is better off than you think – and better off than it has ever been before.  Watch Hans Rosling explain why.”


Tags: media, models, gapminderdevelopment, perspective.

Source: www.youtube.com

Photographing mega-cities from 12,000 feet

Photographer Vincent Laforet spent the early stages of 2015 photographing the likes of New York, Las Vegas, London, Sydney and Barcelona from a helicopter.


Tags: urban, megacities, unit 7 cities, images.

Source: www.cnn.com

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