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Travis Bradley
Hello, I'm from Indiana in the USA. I enjoy baseball, literature, and history. My main interest in online couses are medieval and biblical era history but I will take any course that strikes my fancy.
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A bow made from willow might not make a good hunting bow but it would work for starting fire as a bow drill. The ability to start a fire with friction might seem more "magical" and make a better ritual offering, if that was the reason it was left in the lake.
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Travis Bradley replied to Owen Booker
Perhaps the impermanence of the markings was the reason why it may have been discarded? Someone made the pendent but then realized that the marking would not show up after a while so they discarded this one and didn't make more.
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Travis Bradley replied to Alastair Mellor
@RichardAggus Many years ago my dad lost a silver watch band that he had made when a pin that held it together broke. He was on the dock on a small lake and the watch & band went to the bottom. Perhaps in a few thousand years it will be found and have archaeologists asking why did someone place it in a lake.
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The redbud & dogwood in bloom
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I don't write as much poetry as I used to. I've been making canes to give to those who need one. The last one was made of walnut and cow horn I polished for the handle. I also like to photograph wildlife and nature landscapes.
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We don't know what the question is that "perhaps Patagonia" is the answer to in the first line.
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As this article suggests, if we don't know how words and images have changed we will come to the wrong conclusions. This is the most dramatic difference I can think of. Just a few days ago I came upon some research some one had done on an old black & white picture of a baseball player. By using the advertising on the outfield wall they were able to figure out...
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Hello. I am Travis from Indiana in the USA. I have always had a love of history and am working my way through all the history courses on Future Learn. I have an interest in history because one thing does lead to another. I find it fascinating how something 3,000 or more years ago still affects us today. We live with the consequences of what has taken place in...
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Some of the most famous pieces of ancient graffiti are in the Hagia Sophia.
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@MunshurAli Hello Munshur, I am well and hope you are too. I am on disability so I don't think I can afford student loans. It would be great to get a history degree but for me it isn't really about the degree or a job but the knowledge itself. I have thought more and more about just auditing classes at the local university if I can't get enough scholarships to...
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Hello, I am Travis from Indiana in the USA. I have a love of history and literature. I'm not very familiar with Sir Walter Scott but I know he more or less invented the historical fiction genre. I've enjoyed the courses on Austen and Burns and hope to learn more about Scott.
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Hello, I'm Travis from Indiana. I have a love of history and am working my way through the history courses on Future Learn and other platforms. I didn't finish my college education and have regretted it ever since. I would like to go back but I'm not sure if I can afford it.
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@SarahLittell My little brother is a Purdue alumnus and I went to IU so there was some teasing back and forth back then. The fall is a beautiful time of year here. I don't have any good fall pics on my laptop to load up but my profile pic now is from the front porch when the leaves just barely started to turn last year.
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@SarahLittell I read your post that you are from Indy. I'm about 10 miles west of Bloomington.
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Hello, I am Travis from Indiana. I am working my way through all of the history courses on Future Learn and other platforms. Before moving back to Indiana I worked for an Oregon non-profit program as a care giver in group homes for 17 years. I hope that the combination of my love for history and what my career was will make for an interesting course.
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Hello, I am Travis from Indiana in the USA. I have a life long love of history and am working my way through the history courses on FL. These have included the courses on the Working Lives on Britain's Railways and Working Lives in Factories and Mills. Though we have some coal mines here in southern Indiana I don't know much about them. When I moved away from...
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There would be more of a stigma for those within living memory of the convicts sent. We might be embarrassed if our parents or grandparents had been convicted of a crime but if it was someone who we don't remember or had died well before we were born then there would not be the embarrassment or stigma of being related to a convict.
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Everyone paying attention to the coming presidential election (and presidential politics in general) in the USA will have ample opportunity to practice recognizing forms of propaganda.
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Hello. I am Travis from Indiana in the USA. I have a life long love of history and am working my way through all the history courses on FL. What I hope to gain from this course is not just to be able to recognize propaganda quicker but to be better at explaining to others that whatever particular thing (commercial, news broadcast, online article, etc...)...
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If something like an unknown variety of tree had washed up on shore that would be proof that there had to be land somewhere that they did not know about.
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I can't say that I was very aware of the diversity of the Aboriginal people of Australia because most of what I learned was through the filter of what Europeans reported. That is one of the reasons I'm taking courses like this one, Confronting Captain Cook, and Written in Bone on FL. But I'm not the least bit surprised. I see lots of parallels with Native...
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Travis Bradley replied to Helen Ansell
@ArtTaylor That story was told to me as the truth and I have no reason to doubt it. Dad also said that they had a picnic basket full of food for sandwiches so they would not have to buy food on the train. Back then 2 bottles of Coke split between 5 people was thought of as a treat. Oh how times have changed.
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In 1938 my grandfather worked for the Monon railroad in Indiana. He and the family, five total, were able to travel to Phoenix, Arizona and back for free. I've heard my dad tell the story several times that the entire trip cost them 10 cents because they bought two bottles of Coca-Cola.
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Travis Bradley replied to Ann Murphy
It really does help to understand how this works by seeing it, even if it is on TV, rather than just reading about it.
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Hello, I am Travis from Indiana in the USA. My main reason for taking this course is because I have a love of history, particularly ancient and medieval history. Just over a year ago I took a course about medieval medicine through Jewish manuscripts. While I find the older history more interesting, the more recent history (WWII era to present) has more of an...
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Why am I interested in Australian history? Because I have a love of history. We can better understand what we are and what we will become if we know what we have been. I don't know near as much about Australian history as I do of my own country but I imagine there are many parallels between Australian history and US history that I would like to learn about.
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I have a good general knowledge of the history of Europe and North America but lacking in the history of Australia other than expeditions of James Cook and what the Australian armed forces did in both world wars. I would like to know more about the Aboriginal people and the history of Australia in the 19th century.
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Along with Latin I would guess that the Greek dialects would be fairly common among people from around the Mediterranean, taking it with them, spreading it throughout the empire.
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Travis Bradley replied to Ian Twigg
Also, in between Charles I and Charles II, Cromwell sent Scottish prisoners of war from the Battle of Dunbar to New England as indentured servants to labour in the ironworks and saw mills.
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At least one of the legions that helped build Hadrian's wall was raised in Africa. It is outside of the scope of this course but I'm curious of how large the African community in Britain was from that time till the Tudor age including those brought as slaves by the vikings (862 Annals of Ireland) or anyone else.
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The defensive structures on the south could have been built in case of rebellion but a better explanation might be in case of a breakthrough of the wall from the north. If the southern side of the wall was unprotected I would try to breakthrough a gate or some other passage and attack from the south.
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That the indenture contracts were torn in two reminds me of the tally or exchequer sticks used by merchants to record debts that one owed to another. The stick was split in two and the debtor kept a half called the foil, the half kept by the creditor was called the stock.
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My grandfather worked for the railroad before WWII. One day while he was at work there was an accident and a man had been hit by a box car. The wheel stopped right on his waist, pinching him in two. Somebody ran to the man's home to get his wife. They had enough time to say their goodbyes to each other. My grandfather said that the man's last words were "Well,...
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I will have to disagree that the extinction of a top predator might not cause serious harm. For example, starting in about 1907 the government started killing hundreds of mountain lions and thousands of coyotes in the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona to increase the mule deer population. By about 1924 the mule deer numbers had reached such high levels the entire...
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Hello from Indiana in the USA. I have always had a love of history, in particular the medieval and biblical eras. I admit I don't know much about Ramon Llull beyond what little I have read online. I hope to correct that and add his works to a growing list of books I need to get around to reading.
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I don't know much about stave churches but they do remind me of the older large timber framed buildings in the USA from the late 1700's and early 1800's, mainly barns and the like. Some of those have been restored and turned into homes.
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Hello from Indiana in the USA. I have always had a love of history, particularly medieval history. From the little bit I've seen of the drawings of the stave churches the timber framework reminds me of the timber framework in large barns built in the 18th and early 19th centuries here in the USA. Some of those structures still survive and are being restored...
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Hello from the hills of rural south-central Indiana. I have a love of history and am working my way through all the history courses on FL. I have already done the course on textile workers and enjoyed it. This course may be more relevant to me though, my grandfather worked for the railroad before WWII and I travel across the USA a couple of times a year by...
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Satire doesn't translate well online do to the loss of visual cues and the loss of tone of vioce
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It isn't within the time period of this course but I've been to about eight showings of the silent film Nosferatu (1922) with a live band on Halloween. The bands have varied from an industrial noise band to a quartet with cello and violin. Other than this film its very rare to find showings of old silent films with live music anymore but it is well worth going...
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My main uses for a dictionary are to check spelling and the older meaning of words when I'm reading texts written long ago.
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I don't know enough to say if wind farm placement would influence bird behaviour. It seems a better idea to study the birds and place the wind farms where they will not interfere with the birds so much, whether that is the length of the blades or placement of the farm. I remember hearing about wind turbines killing eagles in the US a few years ago so I did a...
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C14 dating can also be affected by diet. When the mass grave of the Great Heathen Army was found the C14 dating was about 100 years off till the seafood diet of the vikings was taken into account.
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From the jousting could he have also developed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE, like what some of the former NFL players have suffered from?
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This reminds me of the change in squirrel populations where I live. When I was young it was rare to see a grey squirrel but fox squirrels were everywhere. Now it is completly opposite due to a change of habitat. The forest around here has become denser and more greys moved in and the numbers have skyrocketed. The fox squirrels prefer a more open area and are...
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I think the simplest argument is that it is necessary for the long term quality of life. Not just of wildlife but including humanity. We all have a vested interest in the quality of the ecosystems because they all affect us to some degree no matter how distant they may be from us. This falls under the moral argument but there are long term economic benifits...
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Hello. I'm Travis from south-central Indiana. I have always had a love of history and I am working my way through the FutureLearn history courses. My first job as a teenager was working in a movie theatre. It wasn't long before I went from selling popcorn and soda to splicing reels of film togather and running the projectors. That may have some influence on...
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Travis Bradley replied to John Denham
@JohnDenham Without math there would be no money, business, time, calendars and maybe not even the concept of how much food to store to last through the lean times.
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Hello, I'm Travis from rural south-central Indiana. I'm taking this course because I enjoy wildlife and the outdoors. On any given day we can see deer in the yard and hear up to three different coyote packs howl at night. There are also plenty of small animals around with the occasional wild turkey, bobcat, and rarely someone will see a mountain lion. But...
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Travis Bradley replied to John Denham
I like those but I will add reading and writing.
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Hello from Indiana. I have always had a love of history. Now that I am no longer able to work I prefer learning to watching most of the programing on TV. After discovering FutureLearn I've been working my way through the history courses and anything else I find interesting.
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The rifled barrel was invented in the late 15th century and came into its own by the mid 16th century. Why would the British not adopt this technology on a larger scale till much later on? Was it simply the cost or a lack of being able to produce them?
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Were the long guns used by the British in the War of 1812 rifled? That the Americans had rifles instead of muskets was one of the great advantages they had in the War of Independence. There are written accounts of British soldiers watching Americans standing on stumps shoot a British officer, reload, then aim and shoot another British officer while the British...
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No surprise at all. I have heard of John Blanke before. There have been Africans in Britain since the 3rd century if not before. We know from graffiti left on Hadian's Wall that at least one of the Roman legions was from Africa.
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I don't know much about Burns other than he was a Scottish poet and songwriter so I chose the the word bard to describe him. My main reason for taking this course is to learn more about him, his time and the place he lived in.
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I've always been interested in history. I've been taking all the history courses on FutureLearn when they start again. While waiting for this course I've seen a couple of documentaries on the English Civil War and am taking a course on the War of the Three Kingdoms on another platform.
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Hello. I'm Travis from the state of Indiana in the USA. My main reason for joining the course? I was a poor at spelling in school so I've spent a lot of time looking up words to check my spelling. Though I am much better now I'm still unsure of myself a good deal of the time. What I hope to achieve is just to satisfy a love of learning.
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I'm surprised at how little time Henry Tudor had spent in England. When we think of the last successful invasion of England most think of William the Conqueror, but would Henry Tudor be a better answer?
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Travis Bradley replied to Travis Bradley
@PaulKamill In 1981 my dad went moose hunting in British Columbia. I've inherited the house I grew up in. The moose hangs in the master bedroom with an elk, pronghorn, two whitetail deer, and thirteen mule deer from my dad's hunts. The bedroom is an addition to the house. It's a log cabin, built from tulip poplar logs from the property, attached to the house....
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@PaulKamill Thanks for the links. I have heard of and read John Muir since I was a child. I have heard of Aldo Leopold from my older brother who also went to Yale and has made the study of trees somewhat of a hobby. I don't know anything about the Leopold Center, I will look into that. The name of Jim Lovelock is vaguely familiar, likely from a show on PBS,...
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The simplest of answers is that it is up to the land owner, public and privite, and the market. It is up to them to decide the use, management, and value of an ecosystem. That value will depend on the priorities of the people in control of that piece of land. We are all impacted to some degree by the choices made about ecosystems, though those who live closer...
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I'm surprised that there are no values given for deserts, tundra, and ice/rock. If the people who live there were asked they would tell how they value those ecosystems. Though no one lives fulltime in the antarctic that does not mean it has no value. What about the animals that live there and the science that is conducted there?
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I live in the woodlands of south-central Indiana. I believe I benifit in all four of the services mentioned. I benifit from the peace found in nature. I won't say peace and quiet because of all the noise from birds during the day and frogs at night(except in the winter). But that "noise" is peacefull too. This ecosystem also provides some of my food. I can...
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Mankind has been making these kind of value decisions for the entirity of his existance. Not always in a monetary value. Such as how much of the forest do we cut to use to build housing and to put crops on for food vs leaving the forest so we can gather its fruit and hunt the animals in it for food. As a commodity becomes more scarce it becomes more valuable....
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By putting a price on the benifits from ecosystems it helps us to realize how much it benifits us and should help build the case that these benifits should be, for lack of a better word, harvested and maintained in a sustainable manner.
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Hello, I'm Travis from south-central rural Indiana in the USA. We have some acreage mostly covered with forest except for a lake and the power line right-of-way through the middle. One of the big regional issues is the emerald ash borer which is killing all the ash trees here. Five years ago we had a selective timber harvest for the first time in fifty years,...
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My first thoughts are of Henry VII's defeat of Richard III, Henry VIII, his wives, and the break with Rome. Elizabeth I seems to me to have carved her own place in history separate from the other Tudor monarchs.
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Quite simply, we can't know where we are or where we are going without knowing where we came from. By studying the past it gives us a better understanding of ourselves at the moment and what we can become or avoiding the pitfalls that have befallen others. As Mark Twain may have said "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes."
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If it is necessary to crush meds for the client to take them this should be approved by the pharmacist or docter. We once had a client that we were directed to crush her medication and mix with apple sauce. But she would refuse it a lot of the time because it was very bitter. I remembered when my dad worked at a dairy he said that if the cows had been eating...
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Though the patient has the right to refuse they ought to be given an opportunity to take the medication again. Sometimes you just caught them at a bad moment or something. Where I worked we had 'missed med protocals' written by their doctor. Sometimes a medication could still be taken a couple of hours late, sometimes many hours late, but still needed to be...
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Hello, I'm Travis from Indiana in the USA. I no longer work now but when I lived in Oregon I was as a caregiver in a group home for disabled adults for 17 years. I also worked as a caregiver in an adult foster home for 11 years. My main reason for taking this course is to add to the knowledge I already have.
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When I worked in direct care there was always a client who was prescribed clonazepam. As part of our med checks we had to take a count at the beginning and end of our shifts and a count at medication times. After each count we would keep track in a controlled substance log.
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Hello, I'm Travis from Indiana in the USA. I lived in Oregon for over 20 years working in a group home for adults for 17 years ran by a non-profit organization and an adult foster home for 11 years. I don't work now but I'm taking this as a refresher so I don't forget the skills I learned. My mother is in her 80's now and if/when the time comes that she needs...
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Having adequate staffing is very important, without it there isn't enough time to spend on an individual's wants and needs to give quality of life.
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I don't know about the UK but in the USA most assisted living and long term care homes are run for profit so most of the time there is the minimum number of low paid staff. This creates burnout and high turnover. Thus a high percentage of staff are not highly trained or have much experiance. This leads to poor care involving abuse and medical errs that can,...
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Rhyme helpes a person to remember a poem, especially if it is very long, like an epic poem. This would be important in an oral or illiterate culture. I don't remember who at the moment (perhaps Albert Lord or Milman Perry?) but there was research done in Balkans between WW1 and WW2 that found people who could recite thousands of lines of poetry due to the use...
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Travis Bradley replied to Martin Kratz
Some of the human poems made me think the were poorly translated from another language.
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I chose somewhere else. It seems to easy to loose fingers or a limb which would doom a person to even worse jobs. It's no wonder so many immigrated to America. I'm reminded of what my dad told me that his father told him when he first started looking for a job in about 1950. "Take any honest job you can find but stay out of the quarry holes and the coal mines."
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Hello, my name is Travis. I've always had a love for history and want to find how my family fits in. My aunt has traced parts of my dad's side back to the 13th century. I have a family tree that she has made but all it has are names and dates so I want to use that as a guide and to check her work. My thinking is that by going through what she has already done...
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I think Noah and the animals getting ready to enter the Ark would be an interesting illustration.
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The first thing I can think of is to consume local produce and products. Not only is there a lower carbon footprint due to not being transported as far but it is better for the local economy.
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I general I'm pessimistic due to the sheer greed of people. Very few seem to know how to be content with what they have even when it enough to live very comfortable lives. There may be hope for the future if renewable energy becomes profitable to the point that the world moves away from oil and coal and better batteries are developed to store renewable energy.
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The copy I have borrowed from the local library is Jane Austen The Complete Novels from the Collector's Library by CRW Publishing in 2005. The cover is a color illustration of a gentleman and two ladies, Evening Dress for May 1809, from Le Beau Journal. From what I could find online I think it is a French literary and fashion magazine.
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After thinking about this a bit it isn't that poetry has fell out of vogue but that poetry and I had a falling out. We'd run into each other from time to time and it would be good but we didn't hang out like we used to. I didn't seek out its company, other things sought my time. This course may be just what I needed to get back to poetry.
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After reading 'A woman goes' I had to try it myself. I typed in 'a man is'. I'm fairly suprised and happy at what happened and have to share.
a man is no woman
a man is as he thinketh
a man is what he thinks
a man is not an island
a man is the sum of his actions
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I'm not well suited for mill work but I would rather work for someone like Robert Owen. He seemed to care more about humanity more so than the others.
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Granted the town of New Harmony was an economic failure but it did make huge strides in education that still reverberate today. His son, Robert Dale Owen, became a congressman who sponsered legislation that founded the Smithsonion Institute. New Harmony at one time was the home of the U. S. Geological Survey. This is only a tiny fraction of the legacy of...
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I have never been outside of North and Central America so I have never been to these mills but the video reminds me somewhat of Henry Ford. He was involved (or interfered depending on how you view it) in the lives of his work force in Detroit. He also tried to control the cost of rubber production by founding Fordlandia in the Brazilian rainforest.
In the...
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I would like more information of the impact of the American Civil War. Before the war I believe something like 70%-75% of the world supply of cotton was grown in the southern states. The Confederacy withheld cotton to try to force Britian to recognize their independence from the US and become involved in the war. Instead, Britian started growing cotton in...
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When the evening is spread out against the sky
you wonder sometimes if nature isn't playing a jokeThe first line is from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.
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From The Poetry Archive I chose a poem by Ogden Nash, Allow Me Madam. I've read a few of Nash's poems but not this one before. Nash's poetry reminds us that poetry does not need to be serious. That we can have fun with words and language just for the sake of fun.
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I was first exposed to poetry through nursery rhymes and when a little older the bible. I always loved history and to read. In high school I was exposed to the Romantics and enjoyed S.T. Coleridge, Keats, and Shelly. When I was a teenager I liked classic rock and jazz music. I saw what the musicians said were their influences, this exposed me to Jack Kerouac...
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I think the purpose of joining a creative writing course, workshop, or even a group of friends who write is to be exposed to, and learn new techniques. The more tools you have at hand gives you more choices and opportunities to craft a finer piece of work.
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I am not as familiar with 18th century English authors but I have read a good deal more from the late 18th and 19th authors. Most are Romantics, among them: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy & Mary Shelly, Thomas DeQuincey, and Bram Stoker.
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Though I think all of the options we had to choose from are huge facters in the resistance to globalization we are exposed to it through the filter of politics.
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Hello. I am from Indiana in the USA. I have always been interested in history. Without knowing where we have been it's hard to gauge where we are going. I look forward to what this couse has to offer.
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I chose the word leviathan. It brings to mind something huge or a sea monster, something scary and unknown with a tinge of the biblical.
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Hello. I am from Indiana in the USA. I wrote often in high school and college but fell out of the habit afterwards. Now that I have more time I want to make it a habit again and hope this course will help inspire me.
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Travis Bradley replied to Mya Hamilton
Jackson Crawford's videos on Youtube are very good.
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All three case studies are very interesting but because I know more of the history of WW1 than of Austrailia made the Avion case study of the most interest to me. While I wouldn't call it a 'happy ending' it is good that these two families can have some sense of closure and it may give hope to other families who have missing loved ones.
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