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How We Survive: A Poem Analyzing Life, Death and Necessity
Get PDFThis poem is an analysis of the short story Living Like Weasels by Annie Dillard. It focuses on life and death, as well as how life is fleeting, and draws on themes expressed in the source work.
This poem was created as part of a multimodal project for an American Literature class in the Fall of 2024 using the following prompt:
You are responding to literature using creative techniques in two phases. In the first phase, you will compose a 2-4 page piece of creative writing that includes a theme we’ve studied in the class that has significance to you. That creative writing is “in conversation” with a literary text from any assigned reading in the course that has the theme you selected. The text you write is in a creative genre different than the genre of the literary text you selected.The second phase of the assignment is to transform your creative writing into a multi-modal text. The goal for this dialogic project is to draw on a practice of American writers responding to earlier generations’ work. Then, drawing on contemporary work with visual and auditory elements, we extend our thinking with a multimodal text to deepen our study of key themes in American Literature
Seasonal and Annual Precipitation Efficiency in the Eastern United States·
Get PDFPreCipitation efficiency (Pe) is the percentage of the average atmospheric water vapor above a station that is released and falls to earth as measurable preCipitation in a given time period. Pe is a single parameter describing the efficiency of atmospheric mechanisms in releasing moisture. Temporal and spatial variations in Pe are controlled primarily by synoptic atmospheric systems. The relationship between atmospheric systems and seasonal! annual variations in Pe is investigated for the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Regional variations in seasonal and annual averages of Pe suggest the relative effectiveness of dynamic and thermodynamic preCipitation mechanisms. Basically, the pattern of Pe reveals the importance of the greater range of cyclonic activity and frontal zones. The presence of dynamic mechanisms is a prerequisite for the release of precipitation, but topographic enhancement of precipitation and readily available moisture (enhanced PWV supplemented via advection) can also intensify the Pe value
Accepting Invasive Privacy Policies in Downloading TikTok
Get PDFPrivacy is important but often neglected by app users. Our results show that the respondents are highly involved in online privacy and privacy for their data on social media. When asked anonymously, around five-fifths of respondents would not accept specific TikTok privacy statements. This did change for those with a TikTok account and those who were heavy app users. These results held for place of residence and gender. This confirms the privacy paradox. What was surprising is that 17 percent of respondents are willing to accept invasive privacy actions to use TikTok
The Impact of a Growth Center on an Agricultural Hinterland: A Case Study of Taegu, Korea
Get PDFAlthough the location of large urban centers such as Seoul, Pusan, and Taegu has had a major impact on changes in the surrounding agricultural hinterland, regional differences of agricultural development in Korea have not received much attention until recently (Fig. 1). Keidel, for example, noted that Kyongi-do and Kyongsangnam-do have higher agricultural income levels than the remainder of the country because they produce commercial crops for Seoul and Pusan, respectively.1 More recently, after the construction of a modern highway between these two cities, Chungchongbuk-do and Kyongsangbuk-do provinces emerged as the major suppliers of commercial crops for Seoul and Pusan. If an increase in urban income induces a change in demand for subsistence crops to commercial crops, the surrounding agricultural land should shift its crop production in a corresponding manner. In subsistence agriculture, the location of the market is not very important because agricultural products are not transported to markets. Consequently, the pattern of subsistence crops should reveal a random relationship to the market center. In commercial crop production, transportation costs become an important factor in determining the profitable location of a crop. As more commercial crops are grown, production should conform increasingly to the land use pattern described by agricultural rent theory. The goal of this paper is to examine such changes in agricultural production patterns in the hinterland of an intermediate urban growth center, Taegu, using myon level data.
Exploring the Information-Seeking Behavior of Black Mothers with MLIS Degrees: A Phenomenological Study Through the Lens of Small World Theory
Get PDFThis presentation will introduce the conceptual framework for a phenomenological study exploring the life course information behavior of Black mothers with Master’s degrees in Library and Information Science (MLIS). Grounded in the Life Course Perspective, the study examines how these women’s experiences over time shape their interactions with information. The research will integrate Chatman’s Small World Theory to analyze how their social and professional networks influence their access to, use of, and interpretation of information across different life stages. This session will explore the dynamic interplay between lived experiences, social structures, and information behavior, highlighting the role of open access frameworks and inclusive information practices in addressing barriers to resource accessibility. The discussion will lay the foundation for future empirical research on the evolving information needs of Black mothers with MLIS degrees
Projections and Perceptions-Editoria Comments. Places
Get PDFI grew up in Newark, New Jersey. I loved its streets and its people. I loved the public schools, the No. 13 trolley that carried passengers down Clinton Avenue to the downtown area, to Bamberger\u27s, Hahnes\u27 and Kresge\u27s, to the Newark Museum and especially the public library. For eighteen or more years I had never been outside of New Jersey or New York, but in the library I found the world. And I could float in my imagination to the Indian sub-continent, to China and Japan, to the great European capitals, to Oceania and beyond. I found a great fascination in maps and the questions they inspired. Where is Athens? How long has it been a civilized community? Why did it become the prime urban center of Greece? And what has happened to it through time? Katmandu, New Orleans, Dacca, the Great Basin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Quebec, the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort, the Valley of the Sun, Thessalonika, Cairo . . . and so many others. Places. Memories
Projections and Perceptions-Editorial Comments. Term Papers or Theses or Whatever Without Chaos
Get PDFMost geography students at the college level will become involved in a research project of some sort at some time in their academic careers. There are several ways that this might occur. For example, there are term papers for specific courses and senior theses at the undergraduate level, and pressure problems, master\u27s theses and Ph.D. dissertations at the graduate level. Further, on occasions students will prepare research papers to be given at a meeting of a professional society or to be submitted to a professional or semi-professional journal for publication. Also, graduate students may write proposals for funding or to obtain approval from a committee to begin work on a thesis or dissertation. The preparation of the proposal in itself requires research work
Soil Profiles as Instructional Aids in the Introduction of Climatic Geomorphology
Get PDFThe teaching of geomorphic processes in American education has historically neglected the interrelationships of climate and landforms. Particularly at the introductory level of physical geography courses, there is a need to accentuate that current landscape features and residual or buried morphologies, including the soil mantle, contain evidence of climatic change. Climatic processes, surface biota, underlying geology, and the locally-dominant set of geomorphic processes coalesce in the surface layer, known as the solum, to reveal the recent geomorphic history. Soil profiles are useful illustrative devices in introducing the concept of morphogenetic regions and in comparing between regions the dynamic interplay of climate, vegetation, surface material, and slope. In fact, an introduction to soil morphology and genesis may be the best pedagogical means of making the transition from climatological to geomorphic topics in introductory physical geography courses
Collection and Measurement of Airborne Particulates in Brighton, Michigan: An Experiment in Physical Geography
Get PDFThe purpose of this project was to devise a simple, inexpensive method for collecting and measuring particulates in the atmosphere. After this was accomplished, the numbers were plotted on graphs opposite selected atmospheric conditions such as wind direction and velocity, precipitation, pressure, and so on. The investigation was conducted in Brighton, Michigan, a small town about 50 miles northwest of Detroit; little industrial pollution occurs there. The apparatus and technique developed in this study could be utilized quite easily in any area. Hopefully, this project will stimulate the curiosity of others and encourage futher analysis of atmospheric phenomena
