Human geography is composed of many different fields, including political geography, urban geography, economic geography, population geography, etc. This collection of chapters, while touching upon a few of the aforementioned fields, is mainly centered around the field of economic geography. Each one of these chapters aims to draw attention to and answer questions developed while exploring different case studies with regards to the human geography of certain phenomena connected to Addison County, VT. The phenomena included are the economic geography of chocolate (chapter 1), social/economic geography of heroin (chapter 2), agricultural/economic geography of migration (chapter 3), political geography of water quality (chapter 4), political/economic/social …show more content…
Core countries tend to be the most developed and include most of Western Europe and the United States. These countries tend to be the most developed, dominate trade, control advanced technology and medicine, and be major players in the world economy. Secondly, semi-peripheral countries are those prone to being exploited by the core yet are still able to dominate and exploit the peripheral countries. Examples of these countries include Brazil and South Africa. The third and final group of countries—the periphery—is generally in the worst overall shape. They are characterized as being stricken with poverty, lack of development, and dependent on trade relationships. Most countries in Africa and Asia fall into this grouping. These six chapters clearly highlight the characteristics listed above as well as the differences and interactions between Addison County, VT (core) and the semi-peripheral and peripheral …show more content…
2016; Criscitiello et al. 2016; Blizzard et al. 2016). Both of these theories are very similar in nature, with the core countries representing the ‘Global North’ and the semi-peripheral/peripheral countries representing the ‘Global South’. Middlebury Chocolates receives its most important input, cocoa beans, from the Dominican Republic, Belize, Guatemala, and Tanzania, all of which are both semi-peripheral/peripheral and located in the ‘Global South’. In the case of The Heroin/Opioid Epidemic (chapter 2), Addison County, VT is receiving a finished good (heroin) from ‘southern’ countries in the Middle East, South America, and Central America. Finally, with the chapter on Jamaican migrant workers, Jamaica (a peripheral country) is supplying Addison County, VT (a core area) with labor. In each of these three chapters, there is a different piece of worth being supplied. Whether it be a human laborer, an input needed to make a finished product, or even a finished product itself such as heroin, all three of these different goods/services are being exported from relatively poor areas to wealthy areas. These three chapters support both the World System Theory as well as its counterpart; the North-South Divide
The aforementioned topics of establishment in the New World and treatment of slaves on plantations were recurring throughout the book. The book did a good job illustrating why Caribbean countries like Barbados were central in the triangular trade between England, the West Indies, and America commonly comes up in middle school history classes. One of the hard to believe aspects of the book is the idea that merchants seemed to stumble into their fortune and were only where they were due to the work done by the slaves from before sun rise to after sun
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In East Africa, archaeologists have unearthed bones and tools of human ancestors called hominids that go back about five million years ago. Australopithecus, known as “the southern ape”, were an example of hominid creatures whom were short, hairy, and limited in intelligence. They walked upright, had some ability to communicate verbally, and could travel over long distances to obtain particular stone to fashion tools. These tools included choppers, scrapers, and more for food preparations. About one million years later, a new species of hominids that belong to the genus Homo evolved called Homo erectus. Homo erectus possessed a larger brain than the australopithecines and fashioned more advanced tools such as cleavers and handaxes, which were useful in hunting and
The cocaine commodity chains play a big role in the history of illicit commodity chains in North America. The origins of the chain begun in the Andes when the drug was found in coca leaves discovered in the 1800’s. In the first paragraph of my essay I’m going to touch on the history of the commodity chain, however my main focus will be on the growth of the chain in North America between 1950 and 2000, the geographical regions, spatial logistics and organization.
The Triangular Trade was the fundamental foundation of many economic and social developments of this nation. However, this historical turning point in America’s history did not develop overnight. In Africa, the practice of enslavement had been occurring internally for centuries, but as the Triangular Trade developed between the Old World and New World, the slave labor system transformed and began to become an integral part of many nation’s economic systems. As the demand for agricultural products, such as tobacco and sugar, increased, the Atlantic Slave Trade also expanded as the need for laborers proliferated. Thus, the Triangular Trade was the building blocks of the United States, economically affected the world, and ultimately impacted racial
The phone is an example of an Independent Invention, because different people in different countries claimed to be the first to invent it.
2 John Bowe, author of Nobodies: Modern Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy said if he could sum up what his book was about it would be “we all seek control. Control equals power. Power corrupts. Corruption makes us blind, tyrannical, and desperate to justify our behavior” (268). He is writing about the slave trade happening in our own Land of the Free. He wants Americans to be aware of the slave trade and recognize that it is not only happening in other countries, but effects items we use in our everyday lives, like the clothes we wear and the food we eat. As he is an immersion reporter, he visits three different sites of slavery: Florida, Tulsa, and Saipan. The stories and facts in this book are all from people who experienced some aspect of the abuses he writes about, whether a victim, a lawyer, or just a witness to the heinous crimes. He is not satisfied with half truths, which seem to fly at him, especially from those who did the abusing he was talking about, he does his research well and I appreciated that while reading this book.
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Throughout the expanse of the whole entire planet, a select few places are able to compete with the sheer natural beauty of the tropical islands that litter the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea. From Puerto Rico to Jamaica, this exotic paradise south of the United States, that has been bloodied by battle, has since become a vacation hotspot open to tourists from across the globe. Meanwhile, many American Corporations have been actively depleting many of the natural resources found in these areas which has created a vast dependence in these monopolies’ productivity. The presence these of foreign entities in the Caribbean has resulted in a staggering amount of poverty from the native people’s inability to capitalize on the abundance of resources that surrounds them, which lead to many brilliant authors such as, David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion, and Nathan Jessen, to suggest that the United States has too much influence in the area. Nonetheless, many people fail to realize that the Caribbean Islands have been under the indirect influence of the United States for quite some time. The empire that the United States established in the Nineteenth Century in these surrounding island territories will continue to exist for the duration of their existence.
There were an abundance of spatial differences in terms of ethnic, convivial and occupational status, while there were low occurrences of the functional differences in land use patterns. The concentric model postulated a spatial disunion of place of work and place of residence, which was not generalized until the twentieth century.
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Social Studies education is a subject in today’s schools that is undervalued. The study of social studies in schools help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world (Seefeldt, Castle, & Falconer, 2010). When participating in social studies class children are learning so much about who they are, where they came from, how to succeed in the world, and more. Most of what we teach daily includes an aspect of social studies. But, since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 de-emphasis or nonexistence of elementary social studies is the national focus because of high stakes testing (Sunal, & Sunal, 2008). Social studies