Access to vegetated areas such as parks, open spaces, and playgrounds has been associated with better perceived general health, reduced stress levels, reduced depression and more.
This seems to be the claim for the conclusion. This claim is identifying how parks generally make people happier by showing key evidene of lowering stress, health, and much more.
There is an increase of anxiety and mood disorder cases within cities compared to rural and suburban life.
This is the evidence of increse in anxiety when not being exposed to different natural environment spaces like parks. The evidence shows that the claim is true.
In the article of “City living effects your brain” scientists found that the two regions of your brain involved in the regulation of emotion and anxiety become overactive in city-dwellers
Nice citiation to prove your claim about non exposed Atlanta workers.
City environments that are generally closed off to natural habitats such as parks and gardens have shown to negatively affect one’s psychological state.
This is sure to be in my opinion the claim for this paragraph, because you have introduced the amount of NEGATIVE affect on ones feeelings of those residents who live in the city, who can not get the chance of being exposed to the natural environment.
For example, because Atlanta is home to two major college campuses in Georgia (Georgia Tech and Georgia State University) as well as being home to many business headquarters, the feelings of productivity and strong work ethic is evident throughout the atmosphere of Atlanta streets.
Good evidence to support the claim of how people can feel when they visit this park. Not only that, but good citing and including source into the evidence for the claim.
As the environment of Atlanta is very fast paced and business oriented, Piedmont park’s atmosphere slows things down and changes the way people feel psychologically.
The claim for this paragraph is how Piedmont Park changes the way people can feel when visting this park.
People living in cities have a 21% increased risk of anxiety disorders and a 39% increased risk of mood disorders (Jha).
Nice including citation inside of the article. Also good using evidence of how it has affeted the claim, which n this case is increasing mood disorders of those who live in cities than those who do not.
If we take the time to reflect upon the colors and architectural bodies that people living in Atlanta are faced with on a day to day basis, the truth is that the environment is a very dull and serious atmosphere.
It seems like your claim here is the people in Atlanta who are more exposed to buildings do not really get the chance to see the outside world as much. Not only that but I can also interpert how it can effect Atlant's residents.
An experiment was conducted by psychologists at the University of British Columbia. They looked at the different colors and how the color of interior walls influence the imagination and relaxed the mind.
This is significant evidence about how the certain architectural themes can contribute to the space by proving the experment of how colors affect peoples mood. This example went well along with your claim. Also good including the source.
There are various factors that contribute to a space built environment.
It is clear to me that your claim here is the space of Piedmont Park and how locations and colors can affect people.
For example, the built environment of Atlanta’s public park, Piedmont Park, has a special and unique atmosphere that psychologically brings out different emotions and interactions between individual’s verses being in the center of the metropolitan city of Atlanta.
Good thesis, makes it clear what the rest of the article is goint to talk about and why. The claim here seems to be about how a park, Piedmint Park in particular makes people feel better in life and become more happy and relaxing. You used good evidence with this claim by stating your thesis about what the rest of the article will talk about.
The preservation of open space is vital to the maintenance and effective functioning of a quality university learning environment
This was the concluding statement in which the authors still wanted to stretch the idea of "open space" being important to students in universities. In my opinion, this article was beneficial to me and taught me a lot about spacial learning, how their designs are, and the backgrounds behind them.
Americans expect a university campus to look different than other places (Gumprecht, 2007) and that the campus “expresses something about the quality of academic life, as well as its role as a citizen of the community in which it is located”
Immediately I can strongly say that this can relate to Robert Rosenberger's article," How Cities Use Designs to Drive People Away"because of the campus "expresses something about the quality of academic life". This is similar to his article because he explained to his audience about "social roles." For instance, he stated that many people are unaware of these social roles, which can cause them to be blinded by many important things. With this being stated, "Recognizing Campus Landscape as Learning Spaces" by Kathleen Gscholl, and Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi, states that the campus expresses "something". This "something" can have a lot of social background that many may not be aware of just like the "social roles".
Rosenberger, Robert. "How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 19 June 2014. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.
Everyday campus spaces include other physical design features empirically associated with attention restoration
This can be related to Robert Roseberger's article, "How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away", because they are basing it off of a "design features" that may require the social role of association with attention restoration. People may or may not be aware of these but it clearly states here what the design is for.
Rosenberger, Robert. "How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 19 June 2014. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.
Attention Restoration Theory (ART) centers on the internal and external influences affecting one’s cognitive ability and suggests that exposure to and interaction with nature has specific recovery effects on the human attentional system.
With this being stated and with my prior research on this, is it possible for there to be too much of a focus on the environment/ nature. Could it disturb your previous knowledge or thinking?
Attention Restoration Theory
Attention Restoration Theory (ART) (Kaplan, 1989, 1995) is a suggestion that gives a mental fatigue feeling and concentration to increase by time that is spent looking at environments and nature. It is supposed propose an exposure to nature which helps for a more effortless brain functioning by decreasing attention capacity.
Garside, Ruth, Dr. "Attention Restoration Theory: A Systematic Review | ECEHH." European Centre for Environment and Human Health | ECEHH. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.
“that open space must be treated as a scarce resource”
This quote instantly makes me think that universities want to have little space so they can include more buildings that will pertain to the school curriculum itself. I feel like universities are always trying to expand because of new technology coming into place and new material being taught in schools today. Therefore I feel like it is good to have a scarce amount of open space as long as it is beneficial to students.
Unlike the classic designs of America’s first institutions, the physical campus of the land grant university was designed to significantly contribute to student learning through its working farms, forests, arboretums, greenhouses, gardens
I am curious to know what some of the "classic designs of America's first institutions" looked like, so I decided to include a couple of pictures below:
And my question to this statement is if nature is supposed to have an affect on student learning? Does it help increase their thinking space?
"10 of the Oldest Universities in the US." Top Universities. N.p., 30 Sept. 2016. Web. 24 Feb. 2017.
The college experience is a stimulating and demanding time in a student’s life where a multitude of curricular and extra-curricular situations require frequent and heavy use of direct, focused attention and concentration (Wentworth & Middleton, 2014).
Because I am a college student , I do agree with this statement. I notice that when Im more involved in clubs/sports and organizations my grades have a significant increase all because i'm more active in what I am doing. Not only that but there are so many organizations that are regards to actual school work that are basically getting you to do even more with your time. So in all honesty, I agree with this statement 100%.
Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces
Rosenberger, Robert. "How Cities Use Design to Drive Homeless People Away." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 19 June 2014. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.
In this article, Robert Rosenberger talks about how how cities are using different architecture features around their towns to prevent homeless people from being there. For instance, there has been a a surprising and horrific idea that has surfaced the area of London, when regards to homeless people. Sometime around July 2014, an Instagram/Twitter photo had begun to splurge the internet. It was a picture of a London apartment complex that had a long chain of metal spike/studs that were built into the ground to prevent homeless people from sitting there and sleeping there over night. Luckily, many people did not agree with this new appearance. In fact, the mayor of London said it to be "ugly, self defeating & stupid".The spikes were later removed once a petiton almost reached 130,000 people. Even though many people agreed with this was a horrible and ugly act, many people are still blinded by the all over geographical anti-homeless acts around cities.
Robert took it into to effect to show everyone that the spikes that appeared in London to prevent homeless people from sleeping there, was not the only thing how cities and towns use creative designs to prevent homeless people, or as he said are "homeless deterrent." Some of there designs include: benches with slats between them, or with very long armrests in between them. There also some benches that are made very uncomfortable so it can help prevent homeless people from staying their to long. Robert intended to use a good example about how people are not aware and are in fact blinded for the reason they were made in the first place. The example he uses is an example about skateboarders deterrents. He says that when people who do not skateboard have no idea that they walk past skateboard deterrents all the time. Another name for them is called "skatestoppers", which doesn't allow skateboarders to do tricks and slides across straight horizontal planes. Everyday people who do not skateboard do not notice these social roles of the deterrents, but skateboards do and are affected by them.
Roberts knowledge about homeless people deterrents helps people understand how cities and towns are using designs to prevent homeless people. He made many people realize their actual social roles and how it is effecting the homeless. He ends his article questioning if people who now know about these other designs, if they will start to become more concerned and aware within the future.
American higher education institutions face unique twenty-first century changes and challenges in providing good, holistic learning spaces for the diverse and evolving needs of today’s college student.
This is the main argument or which seems to be their hypothesis when dealing with students and universities connections. It seems that that believe that they want college college students today have more and more access to different and unique learning environments. Making a change in higher educations to increase learning spaces and outcomes in college students will always be beneficial in my opinion because I feel that it is good to know what will and what will not work in evolving college students learning spaces.
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (October 29, 1903 – January 8, 1971) was an architectural and art historian. Originally a German citizen, she accompanied her husband, the Hungarian Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy, in his move to the United States. She is the author of one of the most important and influential[by whom?] studies of his work, Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality, plus several other books on architectural history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl_Moholy-Nagy
"Sibyl Moholy-Nagy." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.
terminus post quem
Terminus post quem, Latin for "limit after which," is used to indicate the date after which an artifact must have been deposited. https://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/TPQ.pdf
Quem, Definition: Terminus Post. Definition: Terminus Post Quem (n.d.): n. pag. Web.
The two concentrations differed from each other. The more northerly one consisted of two sugar jars, a stoneware jug, miscellaneous pressed glass objects, - 207 - and a variety of bottles. One of the sugar jars had a hole broken through the base.
This shows that the both the earthquake from the supplemental reading and the area of Parting Ways had objects that related to their culture that was beneficial to practices and their roots. In this case the the destruction was related to African American ritual that led to their roots, while in the other led to its roots in Italy.
Both sections of the footing showed extensive evidence of fire. Melted window glass, heavy charcoal and ash deposits, and large numbers of nails all attest to the house's having burned in place.
This shows a comparison between the supplemental reading of Historic Treasures Lost, Damaged in Italian Quake. This shows that both sites had a bad damage of quality historic sites being ruined.
The supplemental reading that I read was the Historical Treasures Lost, Damaged in Italian Quake by Alanne Orjoux. This article was an earthquake that damaged a lot of important and beneficial historic cites. One in particular that caught my attention that they named was the cathedral in Urbino. According to this article, it has said to have been at least 293 historic assets that were badly damaged where the earthquake have taken place in Italy. Not only was that cathedral caught in the earthquake but there were also a few more. This earthquake left behind a tragic mess and left many artifactual assets to be badly affected or even completely damaged.
Towns all over Italy were hit but the Amatrice the Basilica Di San Francesco and the Chiesa di Sant Agostino were the towns that haven been said to have completely caved in. Inside of these collapsing cities and towns held the the cities historic medieval walls that was badly destroyed. The medieval walls cite carried lots of information and was a big site for Italy's cultural values. At this place it has some incredible and remarkable history of that relates back to the 10th century in which the people have cared and showed their love for the historic site. But in the end Italy seems to turn all the bad into something good by having their people visit the areas that were badly damaged as a sign of paying their respects to the certain sites.
After two seasons of excavation, a whole new set of facts about Parting Ways had been obtained, facts that in many ways place a somewhat different perspective on the simple lives of Cato Howe, Plato Turner, Prince Goodwin, and Quamany.
Were these the only people who lived here? Was it really all that small? Why wasn't their enough information about these men that are important to history based off of their achievments? Is something being hidden?
The misleading factor in this case is that the materials with which they were forced to work were the same, for the most part, as those available to the dominant culture which surrounded them
What materials were actually being used? Why were there not enough to prove these facts? Who were the people that found out these results?
What degree of African cultural survival can be detected and described when dealing with the material remains of African Americans at an earlier time in the country's history?
This is a good question to pose since their was little to no facts or information about about Cato, Prince,Plato, and Quamany. This could help them pose more information about African Americans background and earlier history. I believe you would need a high degree of cultural survival and African American history.
HERE LIE THE GRAVES OF FOUR NEGRO SLAVES
Why is it there a sign of this if the four of them were so called supposed to be free men? Why at the end does it state that they were freed, but yet still have the title of "HERE LIE THE GRAVES OF FOUR NEGRO SLAVES"?
We might guess that not only was the pottery given to the people of Parting Ways by the townspeople of Plymouth, but it was given by the wealthier ones
This answers my question earlier of if Cato, Plato, Prince, and Quamany were the only ones to live in Parting Ways.
After two seasons of excavation, a whole new set of facts about Parting Ways had been obtained, facts that in many ways place a somewhat different perspective on the simple lives of Cato Howe, Plato Turner, Prince Goodwin, and Quamany.
Here is where I began to notice that "Parting Ways" was not just about Cato Howe's existence at this site but also the lives of Plato Turner, Prince Goodwin, and Quamany. Here is where I also saw that Deetz (the author) was beginning to make a connection of their community.
pension
To my prior knowledge, this is some form of payment from the government that you can receive during retirement from past employment experience.
Battle of Bunker Hill
According to my prior knowledge, this was the battle that was one of the very first battles that lead up to the Revolutionary War. In this war the British defeated the Americans, which lead Americans to become a lot more confident and patriotic to override the British army.
To gain a true understanding of the story of a people, it is best to detail a picture of their life within a community and then relate that to the larger world.
This shows that the author is trying to begin making the connection of showing how it was like being African American and contributing to the the United States Army, while African Americans were still not given equal opportunities as other Americans. Basically, the author is enforcing a better understanding of what Cato Howe's life was like being an African American and serving the United States Army.
Parting Ways
This is where the title of this article came from. In other words, the title "Parting Ways" comes from Howe's site of community of which he lived until his death.