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Visit this site to find out more about the origins and history of cheesesteak and spaghetti and meatballs. See how much you really know about both of these dishes!

This website is great. The history on the Philly Cheesesteak and spaghetti and meatballs is very interesting. It's quite awkward to some people that monkey brains are a common dish in some countries.

It was interesting to learn the histories or such common food in the U.S. The overall presentation is great and I like the incorporation of your personal views!

Explore new culture through everyone's favorite thing in the whole wide world; food! Delicious recipes can be found here and a video clip showing how these foods are made. Join Ellie Cahill and Sibgha Amin as they venture through the history of foods form other cultures around the world!

I liked how you showed the history of the food you displayed, such as the Austrailian biscuits and how they originated in World War 1. It was well organized and your ideas were well thought out. Good job!

I liked that you wrote on the whiteboard it was very creative. It was interesting to see that the German dish has not diffused further that it did.

As of Sunday, August 24, The ALS Association has received $70.2 million in donations. Mobility is seen in the situation of the Ice Bucket Challenge as awareness is spread from region to region, across the nation. This expansion diffusion leads to a large number of people supporting and donating money to the ALS Association. How will awareness of ALS continue to spread?

I've been thinking about this, too. What kind of diffusion does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge represent? Nice work, Gemma.

Time to try out your Diigolet highlighter tool ... find at least one example in the article that shows how Rastafarian culture diffused across the globe. No problem, mon.

Have you ever wanted to watch two very amateur chefs almost kill themselves when they attempt to make foreign food? Guaranteed to make you laugh at their stupidity, LiAnn and Kara demonstrate their awful and slightly-less-awful cooking skills through the completion of this beautiful meal. Featuring: Some weird Lithuanian pork stuff that was actually pretty good; Greasy Chips a.k.a. Tanzanian French Fries; Chai tea with way too much cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger; and, an Orange and Mango drink in the fancy "I'm a Grownup, I Swear!" wine glasses.

I loved the video you made! It was... the most unique one I've seen thus far. It was informative, and your commentary was quite comical (my personal favorite being the bay leaf). The diffusion of "greasy chips" was well displayed, and how they have become popular throughout many countries, including Tanzania.

I thought it was very informative as well as funny. I liked that the greasy chips were basically french fries with another name. It shows how foods can have more than one origin.

Come and visit us at OPA cooking! With Owen Courtney, Peyton Jackson, and Adam Laudenslager, learn how to make fruit-a-licious pineapple nog, delightful alfajores (a type of cookie), and savory beef brochettes. These delicious recipes will blow you out of your mind. Watch our videos and enjoy our page! I recommend the pineapple nog video.

This website is very well done! I love your videos and how they are very funny but also informative. The information in the website can relate to what we learned in class. For example, Peyton's dish spread by relocation diffusion which is a characteristic of folk culture. Over all, I really enjoyed you website! Great job guys!

This website is great! The videos are hilarious yet still factual. I enjoyed learning about all of the different foods around the world and applying what we learned in class, such as the different types of the diffusion, to the recipes in the videos. Awesome job!

This article describes the struggles of migrants as they try to cross Macedonia's border to escape conflicts such as war in Syria. Recently, thousands of the refugees and migrants have forced their way across the border and are closer to the safety which Europe can offer them, away from their war-ravaged homes. The migrants had faced challenges with police as many poured into Greece and tried to move further into Europe, spending, "...days in the open with little or no food or water after Macedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and sealed its borders to migrants..." (Reuters). The geographical theme of mobility is shown here because of the diffusion of the migrants from their homes, in areas such as Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq, to Greece and other areas of Europe. With the rising issues and struggles of the migrants, questions arise. Why are the migrants receiving no help or care from other countries to remove them from the war zones they had escaped from. What will Macedonian police do in response to the continually rising amount of migrants coming through their protected borders?

The civil war occurring in the Central African Republic recently affected even a neutral peacekeeping organization in a negative way. This threat have left many homeless searching for a way out. These emigrants trying to escape the war will likely cause traits of their culture to expand beyond the Central African Republic's boarders. Such an event would relate to the theme of mobility as the ideas of those people move through relocation diffusion. These events have also grabbed attention on a global stage as the rest of the world works to solve the conflict that is hurting so many people. A theme of region also starts to appear, when the area where most of the violence is occurring produces this carnage. Where the war rages heaviest people will develop a vernacular region, labeling the area dangerous, and try to stay away. One event in a defined part of the world can have a large impact all over. How will the United Nations respond to the violence? What will happen to the supply deprived people in Central African Republic is the main supply route is impassable?

Thank you for making accurate connections, Christian. Great questions, too. One way to predict the UN's response to violence would be to see their previous responses to conflicts. The organization has made many mistakes (Rwandan Genocide) in the past so I believe they attempt to be as proactive as possible. On another note, as human geographers, it's interesting to observe who is emigrating and where they choose to go. I believe it suggests a deeper story as to what the political, environmental, and economic conditions of the places are. Stay tuned for our second unit on people and migration.

President Barack Obama is visiting Kenya later this month and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya is urging him not to speak about gay rights while he is there. The low turnout shows that the region boundary of legal gay marriage and support for it is expanding. What are other regions that are currently expanding or have been expanding recently?

This is another interesting current event. It also reminds me of hierarchal diffusion or the spread of ideas by a powerful person or group.

Earlier this week an unnamed space rocket, launched by SpaceX exploded just minutes after the launch. The purpose for this rocket, named Dragon, was to conduct a resupply mission for the International Space Station. Dragon's cargo included 2 tons of goods, including 1,500 pounds of food and provisions for the crew. It was not clear what caused this rocket to fail after launch but an investigation will be conducted very soon. This event relates to two major themes in Human Geography. The first theme is Globalization. Globalization represents the modern technological age, in which improved worldwide transport and communication allowing for the instantaneous diffusion of ideas and innovations as seen on page fourteen in the Themes Of Human Geography Textbook. By launching the rocket into space, SpaceX is improving communication between other nations that are using the International Space Station. Also, this rocket would have accelerated the technological age by providing influential information and hardware. In addition, this current event relates to the theme of Cultural Landscape. Cultural Landscape explains what a region or area actually looks like in relation to its physical features. Even though space is a foreign place to us humans it has its own Cultural Landscape, such as stars and galaxies. Thus this small rocket, loaded with supplies, can aid researchers in the Space Station acquire more information of the Cultural Landscape in space. In conclusion, Dragon's crash has been a very popular current event and relates to two various themes of Human Geography, including Globalization and Cultural Landscape.

Excellent analysis. Thank you! Here is an interesting resource from NASA about their attempt to map Mars (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/10/nasa-mars-trek/).

If you want to view images of food, then look on this website. You can learn about folk and popular food and view pictures. This website provides images for Shepherd's Pie and vegetables, like corn.

I like how you showed the diffusion of shepherds pie and which country it had originated in. Your site was very informative, and well done.

I liked the way you showed the origin of shepherds pie. Its interesting to know where a food many people eat today came from.

Do you enjoy tasty food created in Spain? Is learning about folk food one of your hobbies? If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, "Cooking with Style" is for you. On this website you can learn the history and recipe for the delicious empanada.

Awesome job with the video, very informative and entertaining. Overall good content and interesting view on the food taboos. Great quote at 1:34 "Like my mom always told me, if you cut your finger off, it's gonna bleed"

I enjoyed watching your video which was well done and looked delicious! I also found the liver and onion dish as a taboo to be interesting because of how it is accepted in some regions and not others. It seems it is more widely accepted in areas that are influenced by folk culture rather than popular culture, which is funny because many things are eaten in a popular cultural society that are worse for you and contain more chemicals than the natural liver of a cow.

Areas of high religiosity, generally will not accept gay marriage which creates controversy in state governments. Why don't states legalize same sex marriage even if some people say it isn't right even when the pope himself supports the proposition? In my opinion it is an American citizen's right to be able to marry whomever he or she pleases.

If the Supreme Court ruled it legal then why are these other states still against it. Even if some states are very religious, it shouldn't be that big of a deal since, as Alec said, the pope supports it.

**Correction: The Pope does not support homosexual marriage. If he did, what sort of diffusion would that display?

This article discusses an Islamic terrorist group in Nigeria, known as Boko Haram, that opposes all elements of Western culture. They have launched numerous attacks on civilians, including kidnapping nearly 200 school girls.  What sparked this violence?  Will it ever stop?

The fact that it took four days for news of this attack to spread is a testament to how much location, specifically isolation, can affect the diffusion of news and information. In regards to the attack itself, I fail to see how this attack gets the group closer to achieving a goal. How does attacking a village, killing 33 people help to eliminate Western culture? This is just senseless killing.

Myths about Ebola are quickly spreading thanks to globalization and the connections that make it up. Information, whether it be correct or not, is disseminating quickly through diffusion. While it is informing people of the problem, it is also causing fear in many. How can we utilize the power of modern-day technology and the speed at which ideas spread to help limit the amount of false information shared and ensure that the right information reaches those who need it?

Great application of vocabulary.

The theme of mobility is presented as the outbreak of Ebola causes the country of Senegal to close its borders with Guinea. This deadly and highly contagious disease has diffused throughout the population in Senegal and other countries. The pandemic has caused worldwide fear. Will closing the borders really be effective in blocking the spread of Ebola? Is Ebola able to be cured and, if not, are we trying to find a cure?

Due to the close proximity of Ukraine and Russia, each country has a large influence on one another. The theme of mobility is seen through pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, who have been exposed to Russian ideas through diffusion. What effect will the Russian influence have in the future? Will the rebels be able to separate from Ukraine, or will the Ukrainian government be able to gain control over its country again?

The Ebola outbreak is very dangerous as we can see, but can we truly contain it?

Good question, Adam. What kind of diffusion might disease be considered in this context?