I was also wondering what we have to put on the actual slides since our paragraphs go in the notes sections of the presentation?

Notes for the Powerpoint

I recently read about this notes page where we were supposed to put our paragraphs and I found the notes tab in my powerpoint. Well since our paragraphs are supposed to be in the notes tab, what are we supposed put on the actual slide?

handout from Kuby?

I cannot find where the handout from Kuby and the X-XII and page 1 – map projections and cartogram are located. I looked in the handout section but had no luck.

I also cannot find the example for answering the maps and charts questions set.

For the reading portion of our assignment, the one from Adobe Reader, what is the second part of the questions that we need to answer?

Map Questions

I was wondering how long our responses to these questions should be.

Nice article that relates to a later unit

31 States Record Increases in Adult Obesity

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter Tue Aug 29, 7:02 PM ET

TUESDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Adult obesity rates increased in 31 states during the past year, leaving an estimated two-thirds of Americans vulnerable to fatal diseases such as diabetes, stroke and cancer.
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This, despite federal and state government efforts to curb the overweight epidemic, according to a new report from the Trust for America's Health.

The report, titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing America, 2006, was released Tuesday and is the third in a series of annual reports by the trust detailing state obesity rates as well as the effectiveness of government policies to fight the problem.

According to official figures, the adult obesity rate rose from 15 percent in 1980 to 32 percent in 2004. Combine that with the number of Americans who are overweight but not obese, and the figure stands at 64 percent. And the childhood obesity rate more than tripled between 1980 and 2004, from 5 percent to 17 percent.

"The most important news in this report is that the obesity epidemic in America is getting worse," Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health, said at a Tuesday morning press conference. "The percentage of obese adults exceeds 25 percent in 13 states. That should sound some serious alarm bells."

At the root of the epidemic is a combination of poor nutrition and lack of physical activity, the report stated. Being either overweight or obese increases the risk for a variety of serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers.

"What's particularly distressing is that we think we understand why this is happening. It's happening because the environment is built to promote obesity, and it is so pervasive that in order to make changes, we really need to change everything," said Cathy Nonas, director of the obesity and diabetes programs at North General Hospital in New York City and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.

The new report has Mississippi weighing in as the "largest" state, with 29.5 percent of its adult population considered obese. Alabama and West Virginia are second and third with 28.7 percent and 28.6 percent of the adult population, respectively, in the super-size category. Mississippi also has the highest combined level of obese plus overweight adults -- 67.3 percent.

Overall, the South is the "Biggest Belt," containing nine of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates. The region is also home to nine of the 10 states with the highest rates of diabetes and hypertension, both of which are associated with obesity.

Colorado is the "thinnest" state, with an adult obesity rate of only 16.9 percent. Other "thin" states are in the West and Northeast, including Hawaii (18.2 percent), Massachusetts (18.6 percent), Rhode Island (19.5 percent) and Montana (19.9 percent).

Obesity rates remained stable in 18 states plus the District of Columbia.

Every single state in the union failed to make enough progress to meet the national goal of reducing adult obesity levels to 15 percent or less by the year 2010, according to the report.

"The 2004 and 2005 documents reported that there was no strategic policy to address obesity," Levi said. "The 2006 report shows little improvement. While there are innovative promising pilot programs under way in some parts of the country, for the most part, federal and state policies are limited in scope, designed for the short term and woefully underfunded."

"It's a shared responsibility involving individual and society," he added.

"We believe that all stakeholders must be involved if changes are to take place," said Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan, vice president for academic affairs at Emory University's Woodruff Health Science Center, and chairman of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity.

Among the report's other findings:

* The percentage of adults who are obese or overweight exceeds 60 percent in 28 states.
* West Virginia has the highest rate of type 2 diabetes among adults (10.4 percent) while Alaska has the lowest rate (4.5 percent).
* Mississippi has the highest rate of adult hypertension (32.7 percent) and Utah the lowest (19.8 percent).
* Seven states now have body mass index screening requirements in schools.
* All states except South Dakota have school physical education requirements, while 44 states plus Washington, D.C., have school health education requirements. There is little enforcement capability in either of these cases, however.
* Seventeen states plus Washington, D.C., have passed taxes on junk food or sodas.

Efforts to combat the obesity epidemic have failed to meet their goals, Nonas said. "I don't think they're going far enough," she said. "The perfect example of this is the physical-education and health-education requirements, where states have very little ability to enforce it. It's good that people are doing this, but it's not enough."

The report also offered a 20-step action plan to address the obesity crisis. Recommendations include improved nutritional labeling on foods; community-driven efforts to increase access to healthy foods in low-income areas; improved nutritional content on foods and beverages served and sold in schools; an improved physical environment with more and better sidewalks, parks and bike paths; better physical fitness curricula in schools; and employer-sponsored programs to increase physical activity and provide better insurance coverage for preventive services.

A recent study in the
New England Journal of Medicine found that being obese in midlife dramatically increases your risk of dying early. People who are overweight when they are 50 have a 20 percent to 40 percent increased risk of dying prematurely. For obese people, the risk of premature death is two to three times that of normal-weight people. The primary causes of death in the group studied were heart disease and cancer.

Basic Questions

I will answer this on the class blog as well. Look for the notes tab in the powerpoint program it is right above the slide. Click on it and put the notes in the blank page that appears with each slide. You do not need to print it out but should email it to either Schenker or me depending upon whom you have.

Mr. Lewis I was wondering about the PowerPoint project for the Summer Homework, where do I put the notes for the project and do I have to print out the presentation? That is all that I have been wondering about.

Written Portion

In regards to the powerpoints you are dong for the summer, make sure you are dong the written portion correctly. First, make sure to cite your sources and to do this correctly or at least as close to the correct format as possible. I will post an example tomorrow. For now look at the section of the class website dedicated towards writing style. You should find some help there. Secondly, make sure you are stating things in your own words. You will need to get your facts from other sources but then you need to put those facts into your paper to suit your needs. You also need to follow up you facts with insights that you can show about why that fact is relevant and important. Thirdly, make sure to incorporate some creativity into the powerpoint.

We will spend the bulk of our time looking for creative and insightful powerpoints. We will also doublecheck the internet to look for cases of plagarism.

More to come

Density versus Concentration

Population Density

From Matt Rosenberg,
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Jul 6 2005

Population density is an often reported and commonly compared statistic for places around the world. Population density is the measure of the number per unit area. It is commonly represented as people per square mile (or square kilometer), which is derived simply by dividing...

total area population / land area in square miles (or square kilometers)

For example, Canada's population of 33 million, divided by the land area of 3,559,294 square miles yields a density of 9.27 people per square mile. While this number would seem to indicate that 9.27 people live on each square mile of Canadian land area, the density within the country varies dramatically - a vast majority lives in the southern part of the country. Density is only a raw gauge to measure a population's disbursement across the land.

Density can be computed for any area - as long as one knows the size of the land area and the population within that area. The population density of cities, states, entire continents, and even the world can be computed.

The tiny country of Monaco has the world's highest population density. With an area of 3/4 of a square mile and a total population of 32,000, Monaco has a density of almost 43,000 people per square mile.

However, since Monaco and other microstates have very high densities due to their extremely small size, Bangladesh is often considered the most densely populated country, with more than 2,200 people per square mile.

Mongolia is the world's least densely populated country with only 4.3 people per square mile. Australia is a close second with 6.4 people per square mile.

About 90% of the earth's people live on 10% of the land. Additionally, about 90% of the people live north of the equator.

Population density of the continents:

• North America - 32 people per square mile
• South America - 73 people per square mile
• Europe - 134 people per square mile
• Asia - 203 people per square mile
• Africa - 65 people per square mile
• Australia - 6.4 people per square mile

The population density of the planet (including all land area) is about 105 people per square mile. If Antarctica is eliminated (since it has zero population density), the world population density rises only to 115 people per square mile.

The population density of the United States is approximately 76 people per square mile.

Density refers to how many times within a given amount of area you find a certain item (like people) whereas concentration tells you how they are spread out over that area. A square mile that was evenly concentrated would be a square mile where everyone section of that square mile had around the same number of people. If the people were clustered towards one side of the square then you would say that the people were concentrated there or were clustered towards that one edge. The density could be the same but the concentration of people within a square mile could change.

Someone plz help me?

I have been trying to do this project but I dont understand it If i dont understand something then i wont do so could someone plz help me? I understand the powerpoint project but the other one i dont. If anyone could help me you could email me at poohthatsme@sbcglobal.net THANKING U IN ADVANCE

More help on the homework

Environmental determinism and environmental possibilism are two concepts that are related to environmental perception. Environmental determinism, a theory that dates back to the early twentieth century, is the belief that the environment of a region shapes the culture of the people who inhabit that region. Inherent in environmental determinism is the idea that humans must be in a constant state of reaction to their environment. An individual in a cold and dreary environment must expend more energy to overcome those conditions than an individual in a warm, lush, environment. Environmental determinists believed, therefore, that people living in more tropical areas of the world (places such as Africa, South America, and South Asia) were lazy because they seemingly did not have to work as hard at survival as people living in cooler European climates. The logical conclusion to this theory was that European and American colonialism in these areas is justified, as the native people were incapable of achieving Western-style progress on their own. Thomas Griffith Taylor, one of the leading proponents of environmental determinism, wrote in Environment and Race: A Study of the Evolution, Migration, Settlement and Status of the Races of Man (Oxford University Press, 1927) that

[i]t cannot be too greatly stressed that the feeling of superiority which dominates the so-called “white” races is a growth of the last few centuries…. It would seem to be clear that the centre of the white races must move to the lands discovered since Pre-Columbian days (Isern, 1999).

As scholars began to reject the inherently racist tenets of environmental determinism, a new theory—environmental possibilism—came into favor. Your textbook defines environmental possibilism as “the belief that humans always had a range of opportunities for cultural expression and economic activity in any given environment.” Although environmental possibilism acknowledges the limits that environment places on human development, it does not go so far as to say that human influences are secondary to environmental ones. It is a more flexible framework for describing human-environment interactions, and this approach is still used today in geography and social science in general.

Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism, environmentalism, or the geographic factor, is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. Those who believe this view say that humans are strictly defined by stimulus-response (environment-behavior) and cannot deviate.

Some Homework help

Most items can be answered on your own by doing a bit of research and by using the link posted at the bottom of the page for the summer homework. You do need to have adobe acrobat to read it.

Here is the first of a set of items I will publish that will help you. Do not copy them verbatim but use part and put the ideas into your own words and incorporate ideas from several items.

Map Projections

It is impossible to accurately represent the spherical surface of the earth on a flat piece of paper. While a globe can represent the planet accurately, a globe large enough to display most features of the earth at a usable scale would be too large to be useful, so we use maps. Also imagine peeling an orange and pressing the orange peel flat on a table - the peel would crack and break as it was flattened because it can't easily transform from a sphere to a plane. The same is true for the surface of the earth and that's why we use map projections.

The term map projection can be thought of literally as a projection. If we were to place a light bulb inside a translucent globe and project the image onto a wall - we'd have a map projection. However, instead of projecting a light, cartographers use mathematical formulas to create projections.

Depending on the purpose of a map, the cartographer will attempt to eliminate distortion in one or several aspects of the map. Remember that not all aspects can be accurate so the map maker must choose which distortions are less important than the others. The map maker may also choose to allow a little distortion in all four of these aspects to produce the right type of map.

• Conformality - the shapes of places are accurate
• Distance - measured distances are accurate
• Area/Equivalence - the areas represented on the map are proportional to their area on the earth
• Direction - angles of direction are portrayed accurately

A very famous projection is the Mercator Map.

Mercator Projection

Geradus Mercator invented his famous projection in 1569 as an aid to navigators. On his map, lines of latitude and longitude intersect at right angles and thus the direction of travel - the rhumb line - is consistent. The distortion of the Mercator Map increases as you move north and south from the equator. On Mercator's map Antarctica appears to be a huge continent that wraps around the earth and Greenland appears to be just as large as South America although Greenland is merely one-eighth the size of South America. Mercator never intended his map to be used for purposes other than navigation although it became one of the most popular world map projections.

During the 20th century, the National Geographic Society, various atlases, and classroom wall cartographers switched to the rounded Robinson Projection. The Robinson Projection is a projection that purposely makes various aspects of the map sightly distorted to produce an attractive world map. Indeed, in 1989, seven North American professional geographic organizations (including the American Cartographic Association, National Council for Geographic Education, Association of American Geographers, and the National Geographic Society) adopted a resolution that called for a ban on all rectangular coordinate maps due to their distorion of the planet. .

Robinson Projection

summer project. please help

i look at www.mrlewishistoricalsociety.com and i still dont know what we have to do for the project. whatever looks like a project makes me think that its a project that will be assigned later in the year. can someone please explain? thanks