Browsing by Subject "Geography"
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(2021-08-31)Texas A&M University (TAMU-Aggies), a Senior Military College, was established in 1876 in College Station, Texas, and is ranked No. 3 in the “Top 10 Military Schools in America” (TAMU Today, 2012). The ~2,500 member Texas ...
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(2007-09-17)Lower income and minority communities have long borne an unequal burden of toxic pollution from environmental hazards. I examined environmental inequity, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards in minority and ...
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Geography of Historical Racial-Ethnic Segregation: Comparing Charleston, SC and Buffalo, NY in 1940 Spatial distribution patterns of social groups can be studied through the use of digital “boundary” files, or “shapefiles,” and data from the U.S. Census. Shapefiles are readily available for recent decades but they are ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)This dissertation describes the evolution of hemp culture and related economic activities in Missouri during the nineteenth century. Cultivation of hemp as a cash crop was centered in the western valley of the Missouri ...
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(2013-12-04)This dissertation shows that the ideology of liberalism formed the basis of the Doctrine of Study Abroad (DSA). The DSA was formed in the 1940s and 1950s and teaches that any time spent studying abroad is beneficial and ...
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(2017-05-09)Geography is a vital classroom subject that teaches students about the physical features of the planet we live on. Despite the importance of geographic knowledge, almost 75% of 8th graders scored below proficient in geography ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)An ethnozoological survey has been made of the literature on the tropical Amerindian trait complex of keeping game birds in a tame state. This custom has undergone relatively little change from pre-contact aboriginal times ...