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Topic: Evaluations |
nsheff
Replies: 10
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:24 am Subject: Evaluations |
yeppp |
Topic: final project questions |
nsheff
Replies: 7
Views: 1001
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:42 am Subject: final project questions |
I changed my idea for my final project. I wasn't feeling the whole Frog Pond thing. Now I'm talking about the reservoir in my town.
I have a lot of more basic questions that I'm using too, but th ... |
Topic: The Sacred Wilderness |
nsheff
Replies: 8
Views: 985
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:51 am Subject: The Sacred Wilderness |
I’ve only read through p.283 right now, but I plan on finishing it and probably writing more later.
I major theme I pulled from this reading so far was the sanctity of the wilderness. Humans idoli ... |
Topic: The Sacred Wilderness |
nsheff
Replies: 8
Views: 985
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:33 am Subject: The Sacred Wilderness |
Pages 279-290,* William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," from Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William Cronon (199 ... |
Topic: Parks and People, take 2 |
nsheff
Replies: 9
Views: 1207
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:36 am Subject: Parks and People, take 2 |
I’ve probably been to some national parks when I was younger but I don’t remember. I did, though, go to something of the like on my trip to Israel last semester. As part of the program, we did weekl ... |
Topic: Whose West is It? |
nsheff
Replies: 17
Views: 2140
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:26 am Subject: Whose West is It? |
Peter and Steve got me thinking more about human invention vs natural living, and to go way far out on a limb here, I think people have started to realized how far they really have drifted from nature ... |
Topic: Whose West is It? |
nsheff
Replies: 17
Views: 2140
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:40 am Subject: Whose West is It? |
Going with this idea of ignoring the truth, I was angered by the part about Indian hunting vs. white’s hunting, and whose was more destructive. It talked about how even though Harris had complained a ... |
Topic: Water in the West |
nsheff
Replies: 9
Views: 1155
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:48 am Subject: Water in the West |
These readings didn’t even bring up who gets how much water when there isn’t a lot of it, just that there isn’t a lot of it in general. Maybe because they understand the sacredness of water, and appr ... |
Topic: Water in Boston! |
nsheff
Replies: 9
Views: 1253
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:43 am Subject: Water in Boston! |
It seemed to me that the demand for drinkable and usable water was actually very desperate; by the time they got the system working (or trying to work), life in the slums and poorer neighborhoods soun ... |
Topic: animals! |
nsheff
Replies: 8
Views: 1073
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:07 am Subject: animals! |
In the one by Donahue, he was talking about the difference in the cow-to-land ratio that the settlers used, compared to the present day. I was sort of confused; it said that any cow, oxen, or horse b ... |
Topic: "Change in the Land" |
nsheff
Replies: 11
Views: 1206
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:57 am Subject: "Change in the Land" |
From the way it was describing the different aspects of property ownership, I don’t see any way the English found it okay to swoop in and claim land that the Indians were calling their home. I don’t ... |
Topic: Due 1/11: Chaplin Reading |
nsheff
Replies: 11
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:04 am Subject: Due 1/11: Chaplin Reading |
I was amazed at how shaky a base the racial ideals developed by the English had. When developing their views, they barely had science to back them up. Since racism lacks any solid base or scientific ... |
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