South Africa
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
South Africa is a land of scenic beauty with cloud topped mountains, steep-sided valleys and vast dusty plains. A wealth of minerals is buried in South Africa's rocks. It was the discovery of diamonds and gold that attracted a rush of European fortune-hunters in the 19th century. The...
New York City
Worksheets - 9 pages - World geography
New York City is said to be the capital of the world. It is true that its influence, especially over the twentieth century, has been far more important than any other city. Its impressive development in the 19th century due to industrialization, immigration and its harbor activities has...
Tourism and cross cultural
Worksheets - 2 pages - World geography
Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2007, there were over 903 million international tourist arrivals, with a growth of 6.6% as compared to 2006. Tourism is vital for many countries, such as the U.A.E, Egypt, Greece and Thailand, and many island nations, such as The Bahamas,...
Thailand Vs France - Cultural profile
Essay - 9 pages - World geography
Originally known as "Siam", Thailand is situated in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered in the North by Laos and Myanmar (originally Burma), in the east by Cambodia and in the south, by Malaysia. The East coast is bathed by the Gulf of Thailand, and the West coast by the Andaman Sea. The...
Population aging in Canada
Essay - 7 pages - World geography
Like most of the other industrialized countries, Canada is currently facing the issue of population aging. Aging can be defined as the biological process of growing old. Yet, being a 'senior' is a social definition that will refer in this essay to being 65 years old or more. According to...
Minorities in the United States
Worksheets - 5 pages - World geography
African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and American Indians and also homosexuals form the most well-known minority groups in the US. Minorities represent roughly 25% of the American population, and they are growing at much faster rate than Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent. Within a span of...
Advanced geographic information systems: the contribution to the field of GIS made by David Mark and Michael Goodchild
Essay - 10 pages - World geography
Michael Frank Goodchild and David M. Mark are both considered eminent geographers who are presently teaching at American universities. Their contribution and passion to the field of geography is tremendous and has left a lot of the human strata in awe. Although, they share a particular interest...
The United Nations urban growth projection and its impact on urban development and regional disparities in India
Essay - 10 pages - World geography
The United Nations Population Division (UNPD) has been publishing and revising its World Urbanization Prospects since 1991, the latest being the 2002 revision, and this has become a popular source of data and analysis of the past, current and future proportion urban in each country, region or...
United Kingdom and Tourism
Dissertation - 22 pages - World geography
Inbound tourism during in the United Kingdom has been subject to the influence of many factors like the weather with exceptional rainfalls, flooding, storms, health scares (outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease, avian flu), threat of terrorism: two attempts of terrorist attacks took place at the end...
Thailand: country profile
Dissertation - 23 pages - World geography
Located in the very heart of South-East Asia, Thailand is one of the most important country of the region. Birmany at west, Laos and Cambodgia at east and Malaysia at south are the countries bordering Thailand. The country is divided into 5 main geographical areas (Center, East, North, Northeast...
Mutations of Vancouver's Chinatown: Spatial redistribution and new territorial logic's
Essay - 11 pages - World geography
Large cities tend to be inhabited by minorities, immigrants and trans-national communities. In order to study this new dynamic, I have chosen the city of Vancouver (British Columbia) in Canada. Actually, I will be spending my 3rd year in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver; that is...
Will Narco-trafficking ever stop in Afghanistan?
Essay - 10 pages - World geography
Since December 1979 and the Soviet Christmas invasion of the country, we could say that peace has never been satisfactorily reached again in the country. The Afghan War has firstly destroyed the country from 1979 to 1989 and caused the death of nearly 2 million civilian victims among the Afghan...
The relationship the Finnish have with nature
Essay - 15 pages - World geography
Talking about Finland without mentioning the nature is like forgetting more than 188.000 sparkling lakes, putting away the dense forest and woodland areas fully covering 76 percent of the nation (27 in France), the lung and the pride of any Finnish. That's impossible! Whereas Finland was a rural...
Foreign Direct Investment in Estonia: Fostering the transition process?
Essay - 22 pages - World geography
Estonia, as a new member of the World Trade Organization and the European Union, has transitioned effectively to a modern market economy with strong ties to the West, including the pegging of its currency to the euro. The economy benefits from strong electronics and telecommunications sectors and...
Study of India
Essay - 5 pages - World geography
India is an extremely large country; therefore Indian nationality is divided into many different ethnic groups and religions. Indian culture is composed of three main ethnic groups, in addition to countless smaller groups. The three more prominent groups are as follows: Indo-Aryan representing...
Amsterdam presentation
Essay - 4 pages - World geography
Nowadays, Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, is a city well-known in all Europe, thanks to its great charm, due to the global architecture of the city and the inhabitants' conception of life. The town, which has been a famous trade center for four centuries, was built around a lot of canals, which...
Romania - publié le 08/02/2008
Essay - 3 pages - World geography
Romania is the old roman province of Dacie created in the II nd century. Since the IIIrd century, it was invaded but the farmers went to the mountains and kept their latin language and traditions. Between the Xth and the XIIIth, Orthodox principalities were created. Until the XVIIth century,...
Study of Mexico
Case study - 8 pages - World geography
Mexico has approximately 106 million inhabitants, the growth rate of the population is now, from 1 to 9 percent per annum. With Brazil and Chile, Mexico makes that part of the country most attractive for investments. Moreover, with the proximity of the United States, we can easily understand that...
The Australian Strine
Essay - 19 pages - World geography
Having spent my eight-month-stay between Sydney and Brisbane, respectively State capitals of New South Wales and Queensland, sharing Australians' life, and having also travelled a bit to other cities and States of the East Coast, I feel I must share my affection for this vast, exciting...
The myth of New York City from a French perspective
Essay - 3 pages - World geography
For this presentation, I have chosen to talk about New York City, also known as “the Big Apple” or the “city that doesn't sleep”. When French people hear about the United States, they often imagine how exciting the life might be in New York. The name itself suggests to the...
Aboriginal and non Aboriginal perspectives on land ownership and the colonisation of Australia
Essay - 4 pages - World geography
The question of land ownership has created quite a few issues. The main issues induced by this controversial concept is based on colonial hypocrisy, fundamental difference between two cultures, grief and trauma concerning the identities and lives of the Aborigines. It is imperative to reconsider...
The Japanese immigration to Brazil
Essay - 3 pages - World geography
Japanese immigration to Brazil has a long history starting early in the twentieth century when astonishing amounts of Japanese immigrated to Brazil to take advantage of Japanese government funds encouraging emigration as well as the Brazilian market. However, a deep economic crisis in Brazil...
In the context of core-peripheral framework, discuss that country's experience from the colonial period to present by examining two influences of the Washington Consensus
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
The core-peripheral framework states that countries located in the periphery are dominated by North America, Western Europe and Japan. However, during the period of colonization, Europe was the core region whereas most other parts of world were the periphery regions. The case of Vietnam is...
Compare and contrast Americanization and globalization
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
Globalization is considered as Westernization or sometimes even as Americanization in some radical arguments. Will Hutton, author and chief executive of The Work Foundation, says that "globalization has increasingly become a cloak for the export of the American business model as the benchmark...
The Vietnamese in Poland - publié le 02/05/2007
Essay - 5 pages - World geography
"We have been living here for thirty years. It was a nice and quiet place. Now, we have all those people coming from somewhere we do not know..." . Those people „coming from somewhere we do not know ...” are in fact the Vietnamese immigrants who came with the new wave of immigration of...
To what extent is Brazil and its development typical of a country of South America?
Worksheets - 8 pages - World geography
In 1952 when the demographer Alfred Sauvy first used the expression “Third World” in an article titled “Three worlds, one planet” to designate the poor, recently decolonized countries or those due to soon break free of their colonized past, this new world struggled to define...
Hurricanes: Powerful natural disasters
Essay - 10 pages - World geography
Current events often deal about natural disasters. Worldwide, many natural catastrophes happen every year: tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods, hail, drought, fire, seism, volcano activity. Theirs effects often are dramatic. Lately, we heard about the tsunami in Asia, and also about the seism in...
The United States as a World power
Essay - 12 pages - World geography
As the President of the United-States, Bush has earned a reputation of being a compassionate conservative who shapes policies based on the principles of limited government, personal responsibility, strong families, and local control. As President, Bush will pursue the same common-sense approach...
International Economics : China
Presentation - 31 pages - World geography
The table of contents : 'The general situation in china',' China's economic reform', and 'The "open door" policy'. China has been able to feed its people inspite of having 22 percent of the world's population, and with less than 10 percent of the world's...
International Economics : Japan
Presentation - 38 pages - World geography
The table of contents : 'The general situation in Japan', ' Japan's reconstruction and development', 'Japanese companies', 'the economic crisis in Japan', and the area of its populated land. The population of Japan is 127 millionand its land area is 377 829 (...
