San Diego, California REFLECTIONS ESSAY
Reflections Essay
Author Kimmy Nelson
Spring 2014 Geog
The Five Main Themes of geography of San Diego and her suburban city of La Mesa
1. Location –Latitude and Longitude
2. Place –What is it like there
3. Movement –People, Ideas, Goods moving from one place to another
4. Region—A Group Of Places that have any human or physical characteristics in common 5. Human Environmental Interaction—Humans Adapt To Environment or Effect The Environment
Five Themes Of Geography For San Diego and Her Suburban City of La Mesa
Location
San Diego
Metropolitan Area
The port of San Diego, CA.
is home to our navy is Latitude, 32°44’8” North and Longitude, 117°10’36” West. The Chargers play at Qualcomm Stadium which
has it’s own Trolley exit called “Qualcomm Stadium” headquartered in Chargers
Park. San Diego, CA. is in the
South--Western Hemisphere of The United States of America. San Diego is a border city as it is on the
Northern border of Mexico on the West Coast in America. La Mesa, CA. is only a ten miles North East
of San Diego, CA.
Place
Southern California
San Diego and her suburb city of La Mesa, CA. are some of
the finest areas that Southern California has to offer. San Diego is the home of the National
Football Team the San Diego Chargers. San Diego is also home to the United
States Navy since 1918 that is home to 54 ships and 13 piers. The Chargers moved to San Diego in 1961 and
in 1970 they had the AFL-NFL merger after winning the AFC four times.
Movement
Distribution and
Mobility
We have the best public transportation system that anyone
could ever hope for with the Metropolitan Transit System of buses, trains and
trolleys that are all connected at many different locations and times
throughout the regions of San Diego and her suburban areas. There are also boats and shipping vessels all
along the bay and port areas along the coastal shores and areas. There is also a ferry that will carry your
vehicle across the water. San Diego has
a huge airport where many people fly to as it is the main airport South of Los
Angeles, CA. Pedestrians and bikers
travel along the sidewalks and roads throughout San Diego and La Mesa too.
Culture & Surroundings
In 2012 the statistics from the San Diego County Census Bureau reported that the White population to be 76.6% and that the black or African American population to be 5.6% while the Native American Indian were only 1.3% in population. The Asian population was 11.6% of the population and Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders were only .06% of the population.
Two or more races present in the households were 4.2%. Hispanic was 32.7% in population and the White alone not Hispanic or Latino were 47.6% in population. While 49.7% are female in gender, less than 6.7% are children under five years old and less than 23% are teenagers under eighteen years of age.
And 12% are 65 years of age or older male or females living in San Diego County. 83% have lived in the same house for over one year 2008-2012. 23.2% are foreign born persons 2008-2012 and 37.1% use another language where they reside other than English 2008-2012.
85.4% are High School Graduates 2008-2012, 34% have a Bachelor's Degree between 2008-2012 and over 230, 000 Veterans between 2008 and 2012. 54.5% home ownership 2008-2012 and approximately $30, 683.00 per capita in the past twelve months 2008-2012.
As you can see we are a very diverse culture with a lot to offer. And as one of the world’s top twelve highest earning agriculture environments is all the more reason why it is a very important global region.
And even with the statistics previously mentioned there are still 13.9% of our population that are listed as below poverty income between 2008 and 2012. In 2008 the city of San Diego was reported to be one of the top ten safest cities with populations over 100,000 persons. In 2010 the city of San Diego was listed as one of the top ten highest crime and unsafe cities with populations over 100,000 persons.
This could be attributed to the drug war crossing over into America from Mexico. I believe that our local government is as much responsible for our border security as the Federal government because no one cares about their own neighborhood as much as the person who lives there.
The Federal government in large does not have to deal with having their purse stole, their identity stole or a violent gang member who is lawless. Nor do they have to worry about the gang member who watches to see when you leave your home so that they can illegally enter at their own liberty.
We have a rich military history here in San Diego with the navy using our ports as home base. And the military have a wonderful community nearby the ports where they have their own little close knit communities of mothers and children and wives or spouses of our United States Military.
Region
Climate
The climate here is somewhat tropical throughout Southern
California so it is lush with green shrubs, ivy, and beautiful flowers scattered
throughout like a tapestry landscape in between the buildings and the
highways. There are also lots of avocado
farms, orange groves, almond trees, and grape vines where large quantities of
fruits and vegetables are grown and harvested annually as San Diego is home to the
twelfth largest crop producing area in our state. The entire Region South of Los Angeles share
the same climate and temperature on a daily basis. There are occasional winds and sometimes
there are droughts. We have occasional
earthquakes throughout the entire region of California but it is our climate
that separates us from the rest of the state.
As San Diego has perfect temperatures all year round that is suitable
for human life and sustainability.
Human Environmental
Interactions
Transportation and
Architecture
Fishing boats, fisheries and lots of seafood restaurants
that are connected to the seafood industry have had quite an impact on the sea
life environment. The freeways,
interstates, railroad tracks and buildings in mass numbers in this dense
population have also had a great effect on the environment making everything
much more accessible.
Earth’s Dynamics
The earthquake prone tectonic plates, the fire prone
mountains and forests along with the mudslide prone hills in the San Diego area
have also had an effect on the way that people build businesses and homes and
even the way that insurance is sold or distributed because they must take in
considerations those likely scenarios before they can build or issue an insurance
policy.
Green House Gas
Emissions
The green house gases and ocean pollution have now caught
the attention of the world as to how vitally important the coral reefs are to
human survival so that there are now some efforts to clean up the mess that we’ve
made. Just off the coast of San Diego
there is a Plastic Vortex floating that is the size of two states of Texas
where plastic hovers above the oceans surface on the waves and even beneath the
surface a few feet deep. It is disposed
garbage that somehow found its way to the ocean and has polluted and killed
much of the ocean life. Some are working
on solutions how to clean it up and prevent it from happening again.
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