Monument/Memorial Sites in Japan - Research and Brainstorming
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - World geography
The Daigo Fukury? Maru (Lucky Dragon #5) monument commemorates a Japanese tuna fishing boat and its crew that were affected by the U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. The 15-megaton "Bravo" test caused radioactive fallout, or "ashes of death," to rain on the crew and the...
Social issues around the world
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - World geography
The aim of this exercise is to find 4 questions for each text that will help you continue the author's reflections, questions you may have asked yourself after reading the text.
The trouble with Wilderness - Cronon (1996); The ambivalence of post-development: between reactionary populism and radical democracy - Ziai (2004) - Development and environmental geography
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - World geography
Cronon questions the wilderness, often seen as the only hope, an antidote - wrongly, in his view. Indeed, he believes that this nature is the work of the human hand. The term wilderness is a pure creation of civilization: what it refers to has evolved over time. This was reflected in various art...
