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Topic: Evaluations |
ellawm
Replies: 10
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:42 pm Subject: Evaluations |
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Topic: final project questions |
ellawm
Replies: 7
Views: 1118
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:56 am Subject: final project questions |
| Morgan...i think you have a good start, but once you figure out the answers to 2, 3 and 4 you will be able to go deeper. I had asked my grandfather questions similar to those and after i got his answe ... |
Topic: The Lost Year |
ellawm
Replies: 5
Views: 889
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:33 am Subject: The Lost Year |
| In response to emilys question i dont know if images had much to do with it, but if the lower ninth was wealthy most definitely things would have been handled differently. I assume that more money wou ... |
Topic: The Sacred Wilderness |
ellawm
Replies: 8
Views: 1106
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:44 am Subject: The Sacred Wilderness |
| i agree with both naomi and paul how nature is put on a pesdestal and people view wilderness as divine. I find it interesting that we read about wilderness going from being more of a place of terror t ... |
Topic: Wilderness (?) |
ellawm
Replies: 12
Views: 2240
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:05 am Subject: Wilderness (?) |
i totally agree with emily.
this reading about wilderness made me go back to what is the definition of natural...i feel that everyone essentially has their own view on it and at the end of the day ... |
Topic: Whose West is It? |
ellawm
Replies: 17
Views: 2408
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:54 am Subject: Whose West is It? |
| In response to jays about if the government knew...i think they did. the reason most likely they allowed it to happen or put a blinder up was because im just guessing they were white..and that they wo ... |
Topic: Water in the West |
ellawm
Replies: 9
Views: 1307
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:48 am Subject: Water in the West |
I agree with those who said it was nice to read something more personal. It was not only easier to read and get through, but it made me more connected to the reading i guess.
I feel that because th ... |
Topic: Water in Boston! |
ellawm
Replies: 9
Views: 1403
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:42 am Subject: Water in Boston! |
| To answer Peter's question "Would public water be taken advantage of or would people respect it?" i feel that now at first people would take advantage of it, but after some time either would ... |
Topic: "Change in the Land" |
ellawm
Replies: 11
Views: 1363
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:18 am Subject: "Change in the Land" |
I agree with all three of you.
I think that the English just wanted to take the land to use for their own and needed a reason to take it from the Indians. The reason being that Indians were not usi ... |
Topic: Due 1/11: Chaplin Reading |
ellawm
Replies: 11
Views: 1378
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:08 am Subject: Due 1/11: Chaplin Reading |
I have to agree with many people that this piece of writing was very repetitive. I felt like it could have been a lot shorter and to the point.
While reading this i found myself in shock how the E ... |
Topic: Cronon and Merchant |
ellawm
Replies: 14
Views: 1766
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:41 am Subject: Cronon and Merchant |
| The first reading by Cronon somewhat bored me and some parts lost me. I found the 4th sectino interesting when he wrote about how historians not making predictions, but making parables. I think a lot ... |
Topic: 1/4: Worster and Diamond |
ellawm
Replies: 13
Views: 1580
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:51 am Subject: 1/4: Worster and Diamond |
(in response to end of paul's post)
I agree with what you said, but i would like to add that i feel that humans have always been very wrapped up in their own individual lives to the point where the ... |
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