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  2. AP Human Geography - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, APHug, AP Human, HuGS, AP HuGo, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board. [1]

  3. Heterotopia (space) - Wikipedia

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    A crisis heterotopia is a separate space like a boarding school or a motel room where activities like coming of age or a honeymoon take place out of sight. Foucault describes the crisis heterotopia as "reserved for individuals who are, in relation to society and to the human environment in which they live, in a state of crisis".

  4. Culture shock - Wikipedia

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    According to acculturation model, people will initially have (1) a honeymoon period, followed by (2) a transition period, that is, cultural shock.Over time people will begin to (3) adapt (the dotted line depicted some people hated by new cultures instead [clarification needed]), before in some cases (4) returning to their own places and re-adapting to the old culture.

  5. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.

  6. Human geography - Wikipedia

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    Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...

  7. Barrioization - Wikipedia

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    Barrioization or barriorization is a theory developed by Chicano scholars Albert Camarillo and Richard Griswold del Castillo to explain the historical formation and maintenance of ethnically segregated neighborhoods of Chicanos and Latinos in the United States.

  8. The Anatomy of Revolution - Wikipedia

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    In each revolution a short "honeymoon" period follows the fall of the old regime, lasting until the "contradictory elements" among the victorious revolutionaries assert themselves (p. 91). Power then has a tendency "to go from Right to Center to Left" (p. 123).

  9. Environmental determinism - Wikipedia

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    Some argue that one of the first attempts geographers made to define the development of human geography across the globe was to relate a country's climate to human development. Using this ideology, many geographers believed they were able "to explain and predict the progress of human societies". [ 14 ]