Practical paper - part 2 - Venn diagram on techniques

Another bit of help for the practical paper...

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South Korea....an economic miracle

Currently we are looking at South Korea as an NIC in Year 11. It has been described as an economic miracle, moving from an economy primarily focused on agriculture, to a modern and thriving country witin the space of just 40 years. Of course, it's not problem free....

Check out the BBC article linked for more on South Korea...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1123668.stm


Some of South Korea's huge conglomerates (or chaebols, as they like to call them) are huge, multinational names. LG (Lucky Goldstar), Daewoo, Samsung...

Samsung seems to have its finger in every pie, and here is its much anticipated competitor to the Iphone.

Baltic flour mill - architectural view

An architect's view of the Baltic Flour mill, Gateshead. Fits in perfectly with whatr we've been doing on Gateshead's inner city redevelopment

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Diary of a self confessed Geography geek

I have created an alter-ego, Brian Stack, a young Geographer who by his own admission is an utter Geography geek. Brian does have his uses though. He is currently visiting various places that have formed part of your GCSE Geography case studies. Beginning in the CBD of Middlesbrough, Brian has the misfortune of terrible things happening to him wherever he goes to. However, he can be relied upon to report accurately on aspects of the places and the processes going on, so as well as hopefully being entertaining it should be informative too.

To catch up with Brian, click on the following link there will be regular updates...

www.totalgeographygeek.blogspot.com

Help for revision and lesson work (GCSE)

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After a long break, the blog is back! Lots of help will be found here to help you in the lead up to exam time, and just as general help with the topics we are doing in class...