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This week’s lectures by Professor Holt were on Latin America. The main focus was the colonial legacies of Latin America; economic, political and social factors that set the stage for the entrenched structural […]

Professor Holt was a guest lecturer this week and focused on the development of Latin American countries leading into the 20th century. In South American countries, colonialism was a principal topic of interest […]

Through Professor Holt’s lectures and the readings this week, we have been able to get a more detailed and nuanced explanation of the role of colonialism in the formation of modern Latin America. This week we went […]

Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, has held his position for almost fourteen years. As Bolivia’s first indigenous president, he has expanded protections given to indigenous groups, most notably by backing a n […]

From the lectures from Monday and Wednesday, Latin American countries shared a common theme of colonialism and transculturation. It was mentioned that legacies of colonialism included economic, political and […]

Because history today has been so Europe-centered, many people look at the imperialistic tendencies of European super-powers, while ignoring many of the Imperialistic actions of the United States. From looking at […]

When I was young I kept a pet caterpillar. I found it on a tree at recess. I carried it around with me, everywhere I went, for a month or so. I did not know the species nor was I particularly entomologically […]

I used to talk to birds. Oddly, they used to talk back. Walking down my street, in the shadow of tall trees, I would hear a solitary whistling call from some lonely bastard or other. I would whistle back in the […]

In my freshman year, a squirrel was murdered outside of my dorm building. The perpetrator was a bird of prey of some fashion. It gathered onlookers as it slowly consumed its victim, stopping at the halfway point, […]

The title says it all. Thoreau was a pretentious son of a gun, especially when it came to writing and reading. In his aptly-named chapter Reading, he spends a great deal of time glorifying the ancient “works of g […]

Johnson’s Woods is invaluable as a window into pre-industrial Ohio forests. And it only exists because for four hundred years people have not seen the land as valuable. It’s a funny thing, for the forest to hav […]

Tut-tut, it looks like rain!
When I was little one of my favorite things was Winnie the Pooh, and who could ever forget the rainy days in the Hundred Acre Woods. I am slightly convinced that these cozy childhood […]

Along the boardwalk there is a spot of char where a bench used to be. The burned area is very obviously contained, and leads me and others I was with to regard it as arson and vandalism. However, I think the most […]

I first came upon the Oak Grove in the winter of my Freshman year. The air was thoroughly chilled and I desperately needed some air and a study break during a weekend grind, so I decided to explore some of the […]

This is going to be a disturbing week. Our topic covers various “denial” movements and their arguments. Our most prominent subject will be Holocaust Denial and its advocates. To understand it, we must have basic […]

We will start the week with an analysis of the Mesozoic Marine Revolution and then move into our main topic: The paleoecology of reefs. We will concentrate on reefs with a biological framework, studying modern […]

We began class with an overview of some of Dr. Holt’s responses to popular concerns from the class about Wikipedia projects. See Wikipedia Project Support for detailed responses. We also discussed a message Dr. H […]