Geography Current Events

Geography, in simplicity is the study of our physical environment and atmosphere around us and the human interactions we have with it, whether it’s with other people or the environment itself. Currents events are one of the methods that brings geography closer to every single person through different methods such as experiences and media. Even if certain current events are not happening around or near you it does not mean it doesn’t affect you, most often it indirectly affects everyone in one way or another. On November 13, 2015, grief struck many hearts and souls around the world. Thousands of people gathered together in Paris, locals and tourists, to watch a battle against the current world champions, Germany, in a friendly game of soccer,

Paris is an internationally recognized country and tourist destination and with a devastating matter like this occurs, traveling to that destination will completely decline for leisure purposes. People still traveled to Paris either to help support the people and mourn with them to show their respect or police force who were relocated to help support Paris in their time of need. Current events are one of the influences and decisions for travel and it some cases, it can become a restriction. Another incident occurred on November 17th, 2015 where two Air France flights were diverted after receive anonymous bomb threats which led to one of the flights landing in Halifax Regional Airport. (Doherty, 2015) This event affects not only those in Paris, but anyone who takes airplanes because people tend to become more paranoid when bomb threats and planes are connected, which limits and impacts those who are

One of the examples that I believe represents an individualistic world view is how Facebook, after the Paris attacks, had an option to add a filter to your profile picture which represented the hashtag “#PrayForParis.” I believe the hashtag itself is already an individualistic world view because it is not the only Paris we should be praying for, but the whole world. Yes, Paris was hit with a tragic and devastating event, but what it represents is much deeper than what is shown and people are only understanding and believing what is told to them and what is shown. How the world has shown the Paris attacks is one world view but it is definitely not the only. As Obama said, “this is an attack on all humanity and the universal values that we share.” (Obama, 2015) Paris brought many to the realization of how broken our world is and how we as people only know what is told to us, even though our world is facing crisis on a daily basis and because of certain places geographical locations it is does not acknowledgement it