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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 …
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 …
Learn how this traveling Argentinian learned to trust people in the short piece “Traveling Alone, With Help.”
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/
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
