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Topic: Online Teaching Evaluation |
mjoyce
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:46 am Subject: Online Teaching Evaluation |
Done. |
Topic: Snow day fun |
mjoyce
Replies: 26
Views: 3118
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:16 pm Subject: Snow day fun |
In response to Zach's Post:
I have wetlands basically in my back yard, and there are so many restrictions regarding them. We had to go through this whole approval process to do construction on our ... |
Topic: Snow day fun |
mjoyce
Replies: 26
Views: 3118
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:58 pm Subject: Snow day fun |
The question I chose was “How did resentment towards the land influence assimilation?”
My relatives, as well as many other Irish immigrants in the mid 1800’s, moved to cities, where they worked in ... |
Topic: City of Nature and The Lost Year |
mjoyce
Replies: 7
Views: 832
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:20 pm Subject: City of Nature and The Lost Year |
I agree with Gigi, there is an expectation that Environmental History will retrospectively dictate what is right and what is wrong. It is impossible for humans to look at nature objectively, (maybe wi ... |
Topic: Wilderness |
mjoyce
Replies: 15
Views: 2425
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:18 pm Subject: Wilderness |
This was such a great reading! Like Knaide and Dylan, I found our class discussion very helpful in preparing me for the reading, I looked over my notes and some similar themes came up, such as:
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Topic: Industrial Tourism and a Public Park |
mjoyce
Replies: 15
Views: 1821
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:45 pm Subject: Industrial Tourism and a Public Park |
I have only been to one national park, Arcadia National Park in Maine. I was six or seven at the time, and I don’t think I really appreciated the experience....
This reading points out the hypocris ... |
Topic: America's Wonderland |
mjoyce
Replies: 20
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:48 pm Subject: America's Wonderland |
In the late 1800's efforts were made to keep Native Americans out of national parks, and this had an effect on the environment. This relates to what we were talking about in class, is human involvemen ... |
Topic: America's Wonderland |
mjoyce
Replies: 20
Views: 2042
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:26 pm Subject: America's Wonderland |
answering Gigi's question |
Topic: living dry holy water |
mjoyce
Replies: 18
Views: 2135
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:46 pm Subject: living dry holy water |
Since Ellie's question had already been answered, I decided to partially answer Isaac's question.
From www.epa.gov
"Your drinking water comes from surface water or ground water. The water t ... |
Topic: living dry holy water |
mjoyce
Replies: 18
Views: 2135
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:39 pm Subject: living dry holy water |
I like how all of the readings we have read lately are water related- lots of interesting content. I liked the contrast between issues revolving around water in the West, and issues revolving around w ... |
Topic: water |
mjoyce
Replies: 21
Views: 2121
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:55 pm Subject: water |
My quote was:
"Temperance advocates in Boston, for example, hoping that a municipal supply of water would diminish alcohol consumption, transformed water into a metaphor for moral purity, a ca ... |
Topic: water |
mjoyce
Replies: 21
Views: 2121
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:23 pm Subject: water |
Hello! I hope everyone is having a good weekend!
I think that this reading was one of the most interesting readings so far in this class. In response to Rachel's questions on the page...
Rawson ... |
Topic: Bison and Husbandry |
mjoyce
Replies: 13
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:55 pm Subject: Bison and Husbandry |
One theme I noticed in the two essays was (sorry for the bad phrasing) you can't introduce a foreign species to a new environment without consequences.
It reminded me of the introduction of cane t ... |
Topic: Joyce E. Chaplin Reading |
mjoyce
Replies: 15
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:48 pm Subject: Joyce E. Chaplin Reading |
Chaplin’s essay explored the roots of racism in America in a historical context, instead of a moral one (like Rachel said). Some of the arguments made by the English about how and why (according to th ... |
Topic: longest reading that ever happened. |
mjoyce
Replies: 18
Views: 1417
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:59 pm Subject: longest reading that ever happened. |
I just realized that they are two threads- thanks Olivia for copying and pasting my post onto this one!
I liked reading "A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness". Most of the readings we have r ... |
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