Throughout the semester, we have discussed several aspects of the journey– biological, anthropological, environmental, cultural, and economic. During these discussions, we summarized various essays and examined the texts to find passages that helped develop the essays’ themes and/or the authors’ arguments. For …
Comparison Exercise
Part I: Thesis Choose two essays from the assigned readings and write a thesis statement in which you make a comparison. Essays “Water’s Edge” Salmon Rushdie “Footprints” Annie Dillard “Recalling Niels Bohr” Annie Dillard “Utah” Annie Dillard “Lonesome with Snails” Annie …
Traveling Alone, With Help (The NYT Magazine)
Learn how this traveling Argentinian learned to trust people in the short piece “Traveling Alone, With Help.”
The Price of Solar… By Robert Fares (Scientific America)
In light of our discussion of “The Longest Main Street in the World” and our dependence on oil: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-price-of-solar-is-declining-to-unprecedented-lows/
Solastalgia
In context of C.E. Richard’s essay “The Longest Main Street in the World,” we discussed the idea of “solastalgia”– the distress a person feels over the negative environmental changes happening close to home. Learn more about “solastalgia” here: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151030-have-you-ever-felt-solastalgia