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Research Needs in Physical Geography
Get PDFThe future of research in physical geography is assessed and discussed. The discussion is divided into three parts: the inevitable generalization and comments on geography; geography\u27s share of research funds; and critical research objectives for the future are selectively surveyed. The comments are hopefully not solely limited to physical geography but to geography in general. In spite of technical innovations the writer suggests field studies, regional information and an assessment of older data ought to be undertaken
Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science
No full textFrom climate change to COVID-19 to reproductive justice, there has been deep political polarization around science. Labs of Our Own provides a unique entry point into these twenty-first-century science wars by focusing on our affective relationships to science. The book delves into various sites where scientists, teachers, artists, and activists claim to create more democratic access to science—from DIY biology community labs to feminist classrooms to activist science practitioners. The reader will find that these claims for and attempts at democratic sciences not only impact what counts as science and who counts as a scientist but reconfigure who is included in the proper public. Instead of arguing for a knee-jerk defense of science against right-wing attacks, Labs of Our Own builds the case for a feminist, antiracist, decolonial, queer science tinkering practice that intentionally, politically, and ethically acts to produce new challenges to the definition and boundaries of the human.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facbooks/1052/thumbnail.jp
Research Needs in Human Geography
Get PDFScholars need to ponder research themes and directions for future human geographics and for those studying human geographics of the future. Geographers in the next century will continue to study familiar themes, including landscapes, environments, regions, diffusions, interactions, and places at all scales (personal to extraterrestial) within social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. Ten research themes are suggested for future inquiry. These include internationalizing economic geography, information and communications, timespace convergence, networks and networking, administrative organization and reorganization, postindustrial economies and societies, quality of life and welfare issues, including survival, and the human intellect and spirit. Pioneering research in these and related areas will blur traditional disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries as we search for increased common ground. Creative maps and ways of mapping, including new projections, will be developed to portray new and exciting human geography frontiers of the mind, land, and environment
Russian Orthodox Churches in Alaska
Get PDFThe only remaining evidence that Russians once occupied Alaska are the 78 Russian Orthodox churches are chapels located on the Aleutian Peninsula and coastal Alaska. A popular tourist attraction, the architecture of these churches are copies those of mainland Russia. Russian orthodox churches are noted for their onion dome styles, but several variations do exist. Modification in church design was often dictated by climatic conditions. Gale-force winds encouraged construction of low structures. Heavy snowfalls led to the design of steep roofs and steeples. St. Michaels Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Sitka burned down in 1966. Rebuilding it has caused a religious revival and has made Alaskans more conscious of their Russian heritage. Most of today\u27s Orthodox in Alaska are Aleuts, Indians, and Eskimos. Also, the present Orthodox churches in Alaska provide a cultural imprint of Orthodoxy in preRevolutionary Russi
Spatial Variations in Fire Alarm Calls, Geneseo, New York
Get PDFThe township and village of Geneseo, New York, were studied to determine if a regional variation of fire alarms existed during a four-year study period. Similar to large cities, concentrations of call type appeared to be related to the demographic and economic makeup of a specific region. Clusters of structure fires, automobile accidents, and false alarms are identified in certain areas and underlying reasons for these clustering are discussed. Current and potential courses of action to combat these concentrations and lower the overall call rate are included as well
Glotopolítica, Identidad y Lenguas en México en el siglo XXI
No full textLanguages, like human beings, have been adapting to the changes produced worldwide, and with this they have grown in number of speakers or disappeared forever from society. These changes are not given arbitrarily, but are conceived from politics and the State, where what should be the best for the speakers, nationalism and society permeates according to the statutes established by those in power. All this from an ethnocentric point of view, which denigrates what is different, what we do not understand, and therefore, we reject. This article analyzes the presence of languages in Mexico from a point of view related to identity, as well as linguistic policies and the reality that accompanies speakers, based on what is established by the State and institutional reforms in the 21st century, which give them authority and legitimacy based on their own power criteria
Faculty Recital: Robert Henry, Piano
Get PDFRobert Henry, Pianohttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2860/thumbnail.jp
Geography: Academic Cross Stitching
Get PDFYet another variation on the theme of geography in a liberal arts education is offered here for your examination. These words have been inspired in part by the guest editorial of Charles F. Gritzner entitled, Applied Geography: Retrospect and Prospect that appeared in the May, 1983 issue of The Geographical Bulletin, and in part by the necessity some of us perceive for strengthening geography\u27s position in liberal arts curricula
Just a Memory
Get PDFThis poem is a response to “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain” by Emily Dickinson. It was written for a World Literature class using the following prompt:
You will imitate at least five elements of an original text we read this semester. Following your imitation, you will write a paragraph describing the five elements you imitated and how your imitation exemplifies the literary movement of the piece you are imitating