KJ Spain GEOG 2010

I plan on looking around one of the most commonly visited parts of the Baton Rouge downtown. Even before visiting the area, we can see from the map the amount of money that the local government has put into downtown Baton Rouge. We have four museums; two are including art in what they show. We have a center for various performances through the Raising Cane's River Center. Finally, we have the levee that is built on the Mississippi River's side. From the museums on the map, I can tell that history is a major focal point for the designers of the area. There is also environmental control through the levee. I will be looking over the points I have set and any area in-between to see which of Lewis' axioms may be the most prominent and expound more after the field research.

In 2010 the nation of Haiti was struck by an extremely destructive earthquake. Many lost their homes and livelihoods. We can still see much of the destruction today as many of the nation's structures were never rebuilt. Three of these buildings, as shown in the map, were the National Palace, main jail, and the Port-au-Prince Cathedral. The palace and cathedral were sources of income for the country through tourism which was a major source of income for Haiti. The prison, on the other hand, had more immediate repercussions as the prisoners escaped and caused havoc alongside the earthquake. Haiti still spent many years going through hardship as many lived in tents up until the end of 2012. Then at the end of 2016 Haiti was hit by Hurricane Matthew; killing 546 and accumulating damages of up to $1.9 million. They were then hit by another earthquake just last year. As seen in the map, Haiti has still not rebuilt everything and as long as disasters keep striking, they may never be able ...

This is a map showing the path of slave ships across the U.S., Europe, and Africa while also indicating hurricane pathways at the time. The Atlantic Ocean acted as a permeable barrier between the slave ships and their destinations. The map data shows that the hurricanes also acted as a barrier as no ships would cross the hurricane paths at the times of the hurricanes. The data also shows that the highest volume of slave deaths was not out on sea, but at the drop-off ports. This could be because of their bodies giving into the shock of the long journey, starvation/ dehydration, or the introduction to new diseases that were not found in their country of origin.

The U.S. and West African nations have very different ways of farming the rice crop. For instance, in the U.S. rice is farmed for commercial use and in West Africa rice is developed for individual and local area use. This would explain why the sizes of the fields vary between the two with the U.S. having much larger fields. We can see that the U.S. is using rice farming tactics that are found in West Africa. This is caused by the relocation diffusion from the original Africans brought over to the U.S. as slaves.