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La Movida Madrilena; the Madrid Movement
Art
Music
Spain
An art movement is a predisposition or style in art which has a specific common philosophy or objective. This philosophy and goal is adhered to by a group or groups of artists within the bounds of a certain period of time. It may go on for a number of months, years, or decades more…
Planning And Development Of Irrigation Project
Development
Water resources
Irrigation is the act of artificially applying water to soil to allow plant growth. This can also include applying water to a lawn or garden. The term usually refers to providing large amounts of water in arid or dry regions to grow crops. The world’s rapid population growth has produced more of a need for…
Overview on Philippine Partnership Caltex
Energy
Petroleum
Philippines
History: More Than 85 Years of Philippine Partnership Caltex gained its foothold in the Philippines in 1917 when Texas Company (as Texaco was then known) began marketing the products in the Philippines through a local distributor, Wise and Co. Four years later, Texaco (Philippines) was formally established and opened its office in Binondo, Manila. Eleven…
History of Chinese Literature
Chinese
Asian literature is wide and cannot be studied easily as a single body. It dates back to thousands of years and has greatly enriched the world. In this essay I will analyze the literature from different sections of Asia and attempt to find a common thread among them. Asian literature can be grouped as East…
Australian Aboriginal traditional health care versus Western medicine
Australia
Health Care
Medicine
Tradition
Introduction Western medicine is poorly compatible with the beliefs of Australian Aboriginal health beliefs. In specific, Western medicine lays more emphasis on treating diseases contrary to Aboriginal traditional medicine which details the cause of the disease as well as responding to issues related to the disease at “personal, family and community” level (Maher, 1999,…
The History of Catering Business
Entrepreneurship
Food
Philippines
The history of catering and of fine cooking trades dates back in the 4th millennium BC. It all started in China but the culture of grand eating and drinking was already important during the prosperous years in old Egypt. However, the catering trade only emerged from the commonly practiced hospitality, which was always free, when…
South by Kamau Brathwaite Analysis
Climate
Oceanography
Precipitation
Rain
sky
Wind
The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere “behaves” over relatively long periods of time. http://www. nasa. gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather. html The definition and discussion of Meteorologist and Climatologist? A meteorologist is a scientist…
The APM Competence Framework: Ensuring Effective Project Management
Australia
Project Management
Using the knowledge and experience of project management practitioners from across UK academia and industry, the Association for Project Management (APM) developed a competency framework which defined competence elements needed for effective project management (APM Competence Framework; 2008). The primary benefits of using the APM Competence Framework are that it ensures a common understanding of…
Wintu Indian Tribe
Ethnicity
India
There had been several kinds of Indians in the United States; perhaps they had reached the other islands too. There are some tribes who exist up to this point and one among these numbers of Tribe is the Wintu Indian Tribe who had lived in the surroundings of Trinity Mountain and Northern Sacramento River Valley…
Life of the Americans in the Early 1800’s
America
Life
“Life of the Americans in the Early 1800’s” Throughout the 1800’s, America’s frontier moved steadily westward. Yet in the 1840’s, immigrants to the West saw most of the region as an obstacle, not a destination. They feared the area’s vast deserts, rugged mountain ranges, and many Indian tribes. Immigrant farmers initially skipped over most of…
| theme | The five themes of geography are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. |
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| description | Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets. The first person to use the word γεωγραφία was Eratosthenes. |
| quotations | Geography has made us neighbors. History is not everything, but it is a starting point. Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography. |
| information | Importance: Geography can help us understand the planet’s movement, changes, and systems. Topics that are relevant to today such as climate change, water availability, natural resources, and more are much easier understood by those who know geography well., |