National Geographic Cover Features Afghan Girl: In December 1984‚ Afghanistan was five years into a bloody civil war between the Soviet Union‚ which sought to maintain a Marxist government there‚ and anti-government Islamic rebels called mujahedeen. Millions of refugees were pouring over the borders into Pakistan to escape the fighting. National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry was in the region for a story on the refugee crisis. While touring a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan
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Quality of life ties into geographic luck‚ which had a lot to do with the shaping the cultures of Eurasia‚ South America‚ and Africa. Geographic luck might have been benefit or a detriment to the natives who inhabited the land. It largely depends on what geographic hand you are dealt. Factors which go into making up an area’s geographic luck are climate and how the natives dealt with the weather. Moreover‚ the indigenous people of the continents must have a stable food source so they can get their
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The Geographic Grid Ptolemy‚ a Roman mathematician‚ created the geographic grid. This grid is a system of invisible lines that span the globe. The grid has been used for over 2‚000 years as a reference for finding the location of a fixed position on Earth. There are certain components that make up the grid. Meridians run vertically and come together at the north and south poles. The center meridian‚ the Prime Meridian‚ divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres. Parallels run horizontally
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National Geographic and CNN: A better look at the world. There is no other more diverse magazine or channel than National Geographic and CNN. For decades National Geographic has captured the world stories and its cultures bringing them to everyone who ever wondered about the world they live in. National Geographic is continuously demonstrating to the people of the world how diverse it really is. When reading or watching National Geographic‚ anyone can now open their mind and expose it
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NAFTA • What was the primary goal of American foreign policy in the nineteenth century? the maintenance of security based on geographic isolationism • The so-called traditional era of U.S. foreign policy came to an end with World War I. • ____________ means to try to cut off contacts with the outside‚ to be a self-sufficient fortress. Isolationism • Which of the following terms
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Factors Affect Chinese Outbound Tourists In Destination Choice Weiqi Wang Fairleigh Dickinson University FACTORS AFFECT CHINESE OUTBOUND TOURISTS Factors Affect Chinese Outbound Tourists In Destination Choice Introduction With the development of Chinese tourism market‚ the outbound tourism has attracted more and more attention in recent years and it has recently drawn much research attention in the academic community. Research reports that outbound tourism in China
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Geographic Luck Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? According to UCLA biologist Jared Diamond‚ some countries grew faster than others because of geographic luck. It sounds like a simple theory‚ but there is a lot more to it. The lucky countries‚ like Spain‚ were lucky enough to have natural resources‚ indigenous plants‚ and animals that could be domesticated. With all of this at their fingertips‚ they were able to stop hunting and gathering and start farming. Farming
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Callem Moore This is to show how trends and factors currently effect the travel and tourism sector. Trends This trend is only due to the poor exchange rates‚ in 2009 the pound (GBP) was very weak against the Euro; the exchange rate was at 1.1 Euros to £1 and this was significant compared to the rates before at 1.5/1.4 to £1‚ this hindered peoples spending on attractions‚ eating establishments‚ hire cars‚ transport and hotels‚ these low exchange rates were affecting behaviour of tourists
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Geographic luck theory is that some countries developed faster with the resources they had than others and got more advanced in ways with guns‚ germs‚ and steel‚ therefore were able to obtain much of the world. It gave some people an advantage over others that enabled them to gain wealth‚ power‚ and strength. Geographic luck challenges the traditional explanation of inequality that claims certain races and ethnicities are genetically and culturally superior and inferior. Weaponry is a factor that
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“INTRODUCTION” Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer based information system used to digitally represent and analyze the geographic features present on the Earth ’s surface and the events (non-spatial attributes linked to the geography under study) that taking place on it. The meaning to represent digitally is to convert analog (smooth line) into a digital form. "Every object present on the Earth can be geo-referenced"‚ is the fundamental key of associating any database to GIS
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