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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"John Muir"”.
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Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West
This dissertation explores the lives of John Muir, the Taos Society of Artists, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Everett Ruess, Edith Warner, and the Taos hippies who journeyed to the American West in search of freedom. In the Western setting, with its diverse yet distinctive and stunning terrain, these …
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The Rehabbing of Cardiac Rehabilitation
… Care Unit at the Cardiovascular Institute within John Muir Medical Center in Concord, California is where this project took place. This is a 17 bed step-down unit for the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit. The patient population is primarily comprised of cardiovascular surgery patients. The main …
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Walking in American History: How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America
… different situation. By examining the walking of John Muir, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edward Payson Weston, Vachel Lindsay, and Benton MacKaye, both the changes and continuity come to light. Walking was a way for Americans at the turn of the century to stay connected with their past while …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… by Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir, as well as a scientific treatise by Ellen H. Richards to argue that nationalism inflects the American environmental imagination with a twofold desire for racial and spatial purity, an ideology that pervades not only fiction, but …
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Chopin in Britain: Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 : people, places and activities.
… of Blessington. On 5 August, accompanied by John Muir Wood, Chopin took the train from Euston to Edinburgh, where he was met by the Stirlings' Polish physician, Dr Adam Lyschifiski. Subsequently, Chopin was a guest at Scottish country seats - notably Calder, Johnstone, Strachur, Wishaw, Keir, …
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CHOPIN IN BRITAIN Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 People, places, and activities
… of Blessington. On 5 August, accompanied by John Muir Wood, Chopin took the train from Euston to Edinburgh, where he was met by the Stirlings' Polish physician, Dr Adam Lyschifiski. Subsequently, Chopin was a guest at Scottish country seats - notably Calder, Johnstone, Strachur, Wishaw, Keir, …
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Measuring the multiple, deep, and unfolding aspects of the wilderness experience using the experience sampling method
… inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, AIdo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, and other wilderness writers: oneness, primitiveness, humility, timelessness, solitude, and care. Five modes of experiencing the wilderness were developed based on the work of environmental psychology and …
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"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir
… as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir incorporate insects into their work. This study explores three interrelated issues connected to encounters with and explorations of the microscopic and unacknowledged position of insects in nature: first, how insects factor into their …
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The design of a free swimming robot pike
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
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Maneuvering of a robotic pike
A robotic mechanism is described, called Robopike. The robot has fork length equal to 82cm, and contains 5 motors, a computer and a wireless modem for communication during testing. Details of the construction and testing methods are provided. The testing covered only a small part of the extensive …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… emotional, ethical, and ecological principles, John Steinbeck developed a holistic ideology to describe and analyze the relationships among individuals, society, and the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that …
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Retracing the Savannah River Portion of John Muir's Thousand Mile Walk: An Interpretive Regional Study Suggesting Curriculum for Sustainability
… the use of part of a historical document, John Muir's <em>Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf</em> (1916) whereby Muir's journal observations were used to create descriptions and metaphors that relate to the past and the present. For this dissertation, the question was asked: What do present day …