Essay Assignment #1: A Favorite Place - UW Oceanography



Essay Assignment #1: A Favorite Place

Assigned: 27 viii08.

Due back: by Friday afternoon 29 viii08

Write the equivalent of one page single-spaced handwriting describing a wild, natural

place that you remember visiting, one that made a strong impression on you. It

could be a mountain meadow, a forest, ocean beach. It should be far enough from

civilization that it was 'natural' if not untouched by humans. Write of your

qualitative feelings, emotions that arose during this time. Then, on the other

side of the paper, write a page about the functions of the plants, insects, animals,

sky, sea in that landscape; that is, how did they inter-relate? What was the life of

this place, and how was it shaped and structured to be as it was? What was the

role of humans in shaping this place? What was your relationship with it (on both

sides of the paper: artistic, emotional and then functional, objective, rational,

scientific)?

You can draft this in your journals (paper or electronic) and put it in the

GoogleDoc. When you do so, mark it as either 'Draft' or 'Final'. Thanks

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