Essays on Cartography

The design and goals of management policies are primarily influenced by the fisheries and marine ecosystems health mental concepts. The Cognitive Maps: Cartography and Concepts for an Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Policy article, discusses how these mental concepts that are held by some individuals are fostered by the approach of Back to the Future (BTF) to the policy of fisheries (Tony & Nigel 1976). Such cognitive maps are normally obtained from local and traditional knowledge and the interplay of science. The approach of Back to the Future action employs all the sectors in remedial and positive and is meant to engage the ...

Introduction

This examines how a photographer Todd walker (1917-1998) used to take photographs before the start of computers in digital world .It further examines how he started to apply computer in his photographic work so as to digitalize the images and other photographic work. This is examined across three decades opt the Todd walker’s work. The use of technology in digital photography is important as the photographs are visualize in three dimensional outlook .When we see Todd walker’s photograph can visualize what it means, how it was taken and the distance the photograph was taken.

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Question #1

Question #2 The given data is: 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 13, 16, 18 Input this data is SPSS and go to Analyze -> Descriptive Statistics -> Explore: So, we can see that Mean is 10.6667, Median is 11 and Mode (as the most frequent value in data set) is 13.

Question #3

- The number of respondents is the number of observations - Our variables are: Controlling government spending (CGS), Cutting property taxes (CPT), Reducing I-4 congestion (RIC). - We can code the values from Very Important to Unimportant with numbers from 3 to ...

Introduction

This research implies that there exists an interrelation of oil in both the concepts of maps and sense of place. The research utilizes the case wherein maps are used as marketing tools for oil industry that greatly affects both the concept of maps and our ‘sense of place’. During the latter years of 1920s, oil companies utilized road maps as their foremost marketing strategy and offer maps freely to customers. They employed cartography widely as a tool for advertisement. An approximated yearly production of roadmaps of around seventy million was reported by a Rand McNally executive in 1934. Moreover, the ...

There have been events in history during which knowledge was advanced because people questioned the status quo. Historically, much of science and technology was formed and based on religious perspectives. Governments and the church crafted institutions that fit with the prevalent and accepted attitudes of the time. However, sometimes those attitudes changed forever because of a new discovery.

Part I Augustine's The City of God

Augustine wrote his massive tome titled The City of God in response to the claim by Romans that Christians did not properly support the Roman government because Christians were preoccupied worshipping God. Also at issue with the Romans was the Christian notion ...

The book “New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery” whose main author was Anthony Grafton, mainly discusses various arguments made concerning the validity of knowledge, facts and beliefs that existed between the 13th and 16th century.

The book consists of five chapters. In each chapter, Grafton explains how the emergence of new world scholars, brought about a sense of doubt and scrutiny among people, concerning the credibility of doctrines that had been written by the classical and ancient scholars who had lived in the years before the 13th century. Throughout his book, Grafton ...

Summary of articles About the Theory in Landscape Architecture

This was an article that was written by James Corner, who was a famous writer of concepts regarding landscape architecture. In this article, he argued that the term landscape can be described as something that represents the true value of the real world situation. Many people from various parts of the world view land in different perspectives. The views about landscape are relevant to geographers, developers and painters. If these people are given the chance to make their own drawing, they will have different representations based on the way they recognize the landscape in question. According to Corner, landscape changes ...