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Tap tap tap, drum beat footsteps on the boardwalk ring out along with voices that discuss the meaning and feel of nature. Poison sumac reaches for my arms and legs as I carefully place one foot in front of the […]

Read the posts by Brooks and Kyrsten on the current crisis Puerto Rico and how it is being handled by the American government and American celebrities.

Discussion Questions:

How does the response time of […]

In the midst of a tedious assignments, arguments, training, travel and work Brown’s Bog was the a great change of pace to my week. I boarded the bus extremely exhausted and nervous. My nervousness was much more […]

The first thing that struck me about Brown’s Bog was the sound of the boardwalk. I wondered whether anyone was listening, but the sound of our class’ shoes on the old wood boardwalk sounded musical in its own […]

Oh how I love the smell of bus exhaust! As we stood outside the bus before embarking on our trip to Browns Bog, I became very light headed and woozy due to the heavy amounts of exhaust I was breathing in. As we […]

For Ed. You were a terrible human being with a few good things to say. For that, you get a big middle finger and a subtle thank you. Don’t let it go to your head.

I imagine this will be controversial, bu […]

Browns Bog was a look into another world, an ancient foreign world. The ferns along the boardwalk grew to large proportions in the peaty, soft ground, reminding me of drawings of the landscape of the dinosaurs. […]

     This week I read an article entitled Venezuelans Cross Into Colombia as Crisis Deepens. As the title suggests, the article was about the citizens of Venezuela that cross the country’s border into Colom […]

In Mason, OH there is a roller coaster park called Kings Island, which houses a handful of record-breaking thrill rides. The new rides wind through the sprawling property’s walkways, above and around booths, and […]

In both my visits to Johnson’s Woods and Brown’s Bog I was struck by how abruptly the forest broke out of the farmland. It seemed as if there were carefully plowed fields as far as the eye could see until suddenly […]

As I sat on the bus on the way to the bog, I couldn’t help but gaze out of the window, as much as I needed a nap. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, I was just amused at how bulky and out of place the […]

At Brown’s Bog, I experienced two different nature sites. Or so it seemed. The short stroll across the boardwalk opened me up to a hidden cove of history. The bog itself was very small and I was taken by s […]

Hurricane Maria is the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico since 1928, it has destroyed 80% of its crop value and downed 80% on the islands power lines which could take 6 months to repair leaving 3.4 million people […]

Growing up there was a house behind mine with a large black walnut tree whose branches loomed over their yard as well as ours. Squirrels would run along all sides of the tree often knocking off the walnuts in […]

In this article research has been conducted on the virus that took the world by surprise, this virus being Zika which has been devastating Latin America for the past few months. What this article deals with […]

Within this article by BBC, they talk about the amount of time that Puerto Rico had to wait to finally receive some help from the U.S. after the hurricane that had swept through and devastated the island. Most […]

As we walk down the hill towards Brown’s Bog my eyes scan the landscape. I am looking at the trees rising above me, the flowers off in the distance, and the grass at my feet. A glace to the left and a beautiful […]

In this article from The Diplomat, author Dawisson Belém Lopes opens up by giving historical examples of countries using a method called pendulum diplomacy. This form of diplomacy involves a third party country […]

In the article I chose for this week, Mexico’s Indigenous Congress: Decolonizing Politics, the authors discuss The First Nations of Mexico’s attempt at a political campaign, and the response it has received. The […]