Hello everyone, my name is Tenaya Mulvey. I currently live in Fort Worth, Texas but I was born and raised in a small town in southern Illinois. I moved to Texas about 11 years ago. My current career is project manager at an oil and gas services company. I have worked with this company for 7 ½ years and really enjoy my job and the flexibility. I would like to move out of the state when I graduate and pursue a new career but I am not sure what that will be. My interest in this course is to learn and understand the core concepts of Geography. I have not taken a Geography course since I was in high school and I am looking forward to learning a more sophisticated approach to Geography. A couple facts about me are that I have an 8 year old daughter. My sister, mother, my daughter and I all spent the Christmas holiday in The Netherlands. We traveled to Cologne, Germany to visit all the Christmas markets in town and we were introduced to their popular holiday drink, Glühwein. It’s a warm wine infused with spices and if you’re not a wine lover its one drink that is hard to finish.

     After reading Geographic Perspectives-Module 1, I got a better idea of the issues it could help solve. One issue that came to mind while I was reading about scale, specifically deforestation, was urbanization. With urbanization comes the loss of vegetation and trees to create these cities. There is also an increase in pollution in and around the city which affects both the people in the city and those on the outskirts of town. On a local scale, has mixed emotions depending on where you live. If you were a farmer that had acres of farmland and were forced to sell your land due to an expanding city or the need for more highways then it has a negative effect. However, on a regional scale, urbanization will help influence the economy.