Quote for Thursday, November 30, 2006

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote for Tuesday, November 28, 2006

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth, only crew."

Quote for Monday, November 27, 2006

"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread.  It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.  What you are doing is exploring.  You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place.  It is an experience of our essential loneliness; for nobody can discover the world for anybody else.  It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, we cease to be alone."
-Wendell Berry

1st Overnight, November 18-19, 2006

Cass and Robby test their endurance and skill with the bow-drill friction fire.

Zack discovers that a pine-needle bed is actually quite cozy.

 

Stephen, Allana, Brittany, Robby, Zack, Chris, Cass, Carlton, Charlie and Matt warm-up for the hike with some sea-foam green belt Karate.

Journal for Friday, November 17, 2006

For this journal response, I’d like you to reflect on our overnight trip.  Now that you have one group expedition under your belt, please rank the following concepts in order of importance to a successful trip: Communication, Attitude, Logistics (gear, weather, lessons, etc.), and Personal Feelings.  Give complete reasons describing why you ranked the 4 concepts the way you did. 

When ranking these, think about how you functioned as an individual as well as how we functioned as a group.  What were specific weaknesses and successes that we experienced?  Which concepts brought them about?  Please do your best to make sure the grammar and punctuation of your responses are correct.  Have a great break!

Quote for Friday, November 17, 2006

"I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."

-Steve McQueen

Quote for Thursday, November 16, 2006

"A person who points out what is wrong renders only half a service unless he can point out what is right."

-Unknown

Quote for Tuesday, November 14, 2006

"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way man thinks."

-Gregory Bateson

Quote for Monday, November 13, 2006

"If a Koyukon Indian wrote a book about bears, maybe half the volume would be the rules of keeping yourself in a state of respect toward the animal."

-Richard Nelson, Alaskan Anthropologist

Journal for Thursday, November 9, 2006

This week we looked at social change and how it relates to people on a political and personal level.  For example, we used Robby’s desire to have a large all-terrain vehicle that has notoriously poor gas mileage as an instance of his ‘personal’ world.  Robby, being a world-wise and savvy guy, also sees global warming and other environmental ills as some of the most pressing geo-political problems of the 21st century; so, we attributed this awareness to Robby’s ‘political’ world.  When we compare the two, we see that Robby’s ’social’ and ‘political’ spheres are in conflict with one another.  We also determined that the concepts of ‘learned helplessness’ and personal sacrifice were directly related to people’s hesitance to act for social change.

In this Journal Discussion, I’d like you to consider the reasons why you have chosen not to participate in social change.  Was there too much personal sacrifice involved or did you just feel like the issue was much too large for you to REALLY make a difference.  If you feel as though you have worked for social change, tell us a little bit about how it felt to make those personal sacrifices and also explain how you were able to overcome the feeling of "learned helplessness."  This is a rather large topic, so please provide comprehensive answers.

Thanks

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