October 20, 2008 lecture by Professor Martin Lewis for the Geography of United States Elections (GEOG 5) course. Professor Lewis discusses presidential elections in the United States from 1789 through 1916.
Offered by Stanford’s Continuing Studies program, this course will last five weeks, and include a debrief after the presidential election. Each Wednesday, we [...]
How does the geography of China affect the way people meet their needs? Their basic needs like food, clothing, transportation, education, career, etc!
big cities like Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai work the same way as most other cities do in the world, as far as the people in China who live in the country-side or [...]
I need to write a paper for my physical geography class, and have no ideas for topics. Does anyone have a topic idea that hasn’t been done to death, that I can find a lot of information on?
landslides or the formation of land from volcanoes
Current Physical Geography research being conducted in the Department of Geography.
Duration : 0:14:29
I have to know for a project I’m doing. I know that Japan’s geography is mostly rugged and mountainous, but I need it of Kurashiki just to make sure it’s the same.
Southern Japan coastal city built on land reclaimed from the sea. It is situated on the eastern bank of the lower Takahashi River.
Kurashiki [...]
State and Capital
Duration : 0:8:10
I love learning about all aspects of science and physical geography (especially plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes). I get good grades and would like to travel the world.
Why don’t you study Volconology? You can travel the world to different volcanoes, collect samples and predict eruptions.
Did the geography help isolate Utopia and give the Utopians independence from the outside world?
Thomas More’s Utopia, by the way.
Three IS NOT and NEVER HAS BEEN a place called UTOPIA.. it’s a METAPHOR.. it’s a FANTASY.. in other words.. IT’S NOT REAL so the geography can be whatever you WANT TO BELIEVE it’s effect was…
http://www.eutoxita.com/ This is my hip-hop-tabulous video for my song, “5 Themes of Geography” © 2008 James B. White. Location – Place – Movement – Human-Environment interaction – Regions. Enjoy!
The lyrics are basically:
Chorus:
5 themes of geography I got
5 themes of geography I said
(X2)
Location is a theme of geography
Location tells you [...]
Professor Martin Lewis provides an overview of the Geography of United States Elections.
Starting on October 15, you can follow a timely course being presented by Stanford University. Led by Martin Lewis, this map-intensive course will explore the geography of US elections (both past and present), and challenge the suggestion that we are simply divided into [...]
