Weve spent a lot of time looking at cities in the content of the course so far. Why do we focus so much on cities rather than rural areas? Are there differences in the types of inequalities between the two spaces? Explain your take on this, considering readings and lectures. Things to consider: Why are cities prioritized in the social geography literature? Are the issues within cities unique to cities themselves? What about rural areas? Use evidence from these texts/ sources to back up your claims.
You are asked to give your perspective considering the array of evidence from this week's texts, and lectures. You'll need a balance of both represented in your response.
Because this is the last discussion board post, maximum points and possible 2 points extra credit will go to responses that 1) fulfill the elements of the prompt, AND 2) connect to earlier (weeks 1- 8) discussions/ lectures and texts.
All elements of prompt must be included for possible full credit.
Weve spent a lot of time looking at cities in the content of the course so far. Why do we focus so much on cities rather than rural areas? Are there differences in the types of inequalities between the two spaces? Explain your take on this, considering readings and lectures. Things to consider: Why are cities prioritized in the social geography literature? Are the issues within cities unique to cities themselves? What about rural areas? Use evidence from these texts/ sources to back up your claims.
You are asked to give your perspective considering the array of evidence from this week's texts, and lectures. You'll need a balance of both represented in your response.
Because this is the last discussion board post, maximum points and possible 2 points extra credit will go to responses that 1) fulfill the elements of the prompt, AND 2) connect to earlier (weeks 1- 8) discussions/ lectures and texts.
All elements of prompt must be included for possible full credit.
What you think about these posts individually. Post 1 and post 2. Give feedback to these people, your opinion and other ways they could reduce their contamination of their watersheds.
1.My main watershed is the Los Angeles River watershed. It covers about 834 square miles of land. It engulfs a large swath of Los Angeles, including all of San Fernando Valley, the western part of San Gabriel Valley, and much of Los Angeles.
My subset of the Los Angeles River watershed is the Arroyo Seco watershed. Geographically, the Arroyo Seco Watershed is a subwatershed of the Los Angeles River Watershed. The basin sits between the San Gabriel Valley to the east and the San Fernando Valley to the west, and drains into the L.A. River at the confluence in Lincoln Heights.
A super helpful resource I found about protecting our watershed:
https://www.lacitysan.org/san/faces/home/portal/s-lsh-wwd/s-lsh-wwd-wp;jsessionid=j-EPgG43eHRc7luJdjcfcVRnsb2Y6YT6aicxWbvPwAm69uO7ol
This is the Discussion Board for the Chicago: City of the Century video.
The Question:
While native-born Chicagoans came to tolerate the Germans, what group retained their contempt and why? Explain how and why this group's experience may be comparable to other groups who have arrived more recently to the United States.
1. How was this group perceived and treated?
2. What did the editor of the Chicago Tribune suggest should be done with them?
3. In your own words, define and provide an example of a social construct.
Carefully examine the distribution of the Hispanic population of the U.S. in 1940 (Figure 1) and 1970 (Figure 2). Compare the two maps and answer the following questions:
Which three states had the highest Hispanic populations in 1940?
Which three states had the highest Hispanic population in 1970?
By 1970, what is the only east coast state that had a Hispanic Population of more than 500,000?
Describe the change in the distribution of the Hispanic population of the U.S. between 1940 and 1970?
This review will be on a documentary video about volcanoes that you watch at home. I want your personal opinion of the video. Use the knowledge that you have gained from your studies about volcanoes to construct a reasonable critique (pro or con is fine) of the video. Any documentary is fine as long as it is compatible with the theme of volcanoes and is at least 30 minutes long. Reviews should consist of between 750 and 1000 words. You can watch documentaries on television, Netflix, YouTube, websites, or any other source that you can find. Feel free to be as creative as you like. Reviews will be submitted via the "Assignment" section (formally Dropbox) of BlazeVIEW. Read the movie review guidelines that are posted in the Class Documents section in the Content area in BlazeVIEW. Late reviews will be docked 10 points.
All movie reviews must include the following information at the top of the review:
1. The name of documentary (first 6 reviews)
2. Medium used
Students will be asked to research, prepare, and produce a Regional Report on a particular area or region of the world. It needs to include specific references and analysis of the region, including (but not limited to): regions culture, economy, politics, important features (physical and man-made), etc. The report must critically address the area or regions unique community in terms of identity, legacy, and cultural heritage
For many years, humans have suggested a correlation between physical characteristics such as skin and hair color, with complex human traits, such as intelligence. This video refers to this as concordance and argues that if race is more than skin deep, then such visual traits must correspond to other human genetics. This idea of concordance resulted in expectations by student subjects in the study shown.
What were their expectations and what did the study results show?
Why do you think this was so?
How does this relate to the American perception that race is biological?
What did these students learn about genetic variation within the so-called races compared to the genetic variations between the so-called races?
answer this 4 question
