vocabulary

=__//**Vocabulary**//__=
 * Culture**- The values that shape a person.
 * Ethnocentric**- The belief that ones culture is the best.
 * Cultural Universal**- A cultural pattern extant in every known society.
 * Cultural Diffusion**- The spread of cultural ideas.
 * Civilization**- An advanced stage of society.
 * Title**- The name of a book or piece of work.
 * Orientation**- The act or process of orienting.
 * Date**- The act of going out with someone with whom you like.
 * Legend**- is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude.
 * Author**- the person who originates or gives existence to anything
 * Scale**- an instrument used to determine the weight or mass of an object
 * Source**- firsthand written evidence of history made at the time of the event by someone who was present.
 * Culture**: has three basic definitions:
 * Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture
 * An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
 * The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group
 * Ethnocentric**: is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own
 * Topography**: is the study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons, and asteroids. It is also the description of such surface shapes and features.
 * Geography**: is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena.
 * Vegetation**: plant growth on Earth.
 * Climate**: encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. It can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks.
 * Universals**: is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities.
 * Diffusion**: is a time-dependent process, constituted by random motion of given entities and causing the statistical distribution of these entities to spread in space.
 * Location**: one of the five geographic themes and a specific position or point in physical space.
 * Place**: a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location.
 * Movement**: is a motion.
 * Human Environment Interaction**: it's how humans interect with the environment, which is mostly negatively.
 * Region**: s a medium-scale area of land or water, smaller than the whole areas of interest and larger than a specific site.


 * 1. News Story:** an article presenting general information about an event


 * 2. Editorial:** an article expressing opinion


 * 3. Intent:** the intended purpose of an article


 * 4. Bias:** the intentional or unintentional inclusion of the author’s views

- Often to sway public opinion
 * 5. “Spin”:** the interpretation and presentation of an event


 * 6. Political Orientation:** The point of view from which the article was written

- Begin with general information
 * 7. Questions to Answer:** Who, What, When, Where, Why and How