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  Topic: Online Teaching Evaluation
mjoyce

Replies: 9
Views: 1098

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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
Views: 2042

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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
Views: 1495

PostForum: 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
Views: 2020

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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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