A Sense Of Place: Technology And The Real World

Dawn Bock related she was northbound on Morris Bridge Road from Cross Creek Boulevard and was coming home from Petco on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. Bock said she was slowing to make a left turn onto Pictorial Place Drive and was going about 20-25 mph. Bock advised as she was turning, her daughter, Kaitlyn M. Bock, who was sitting in the right front passenger seat, yelled when she saw the motorcycle. Bock advised she recalls moving the steering wheel to the left to turn in and to get out of his way and tried to keep turning left. Bock said she thought the motorcycle would go around her, knowing she was making a left turn but instead, said the motorcycle turned in with her. Bock related she heard the motorcycle hit her car and then the airbags

In the book, The Power of Place Harm De Blij makes the reader consider many facets of living on earth that they have most likely never thought about before. Where we are born, where we are from, and where we live have more of an impact on who we are than I have ever considered. Throughout the book De Blij uses each chapter to address a different aspect of geography and the power it has over life.

Geography is the biggest part of a story. Every book, poem, short story, movie, play, and basically anything with a storyline has geography, it’s what makes a story good. Writers use geography to show readers a more indepth point of view of what they were thinking while writing. This is all stated in “Geography Matters” by Thomas C. Foster, he helps the readers realize how important geography is in their lives. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, geography is a big impact on people's lives and actions. After reading these stories it makes the readers think how much the location and people they grew up with impacted them. Furthermore, geography is a big part in any story as shown through “Geography Matters,” The Crucible, and my own life.

Humans could look at the same unknown object and come up with thousands upon thousands of different ideas of what it is. Our human nature is said to be impacted by the place we are engulfed in. In the essay “A Literature of Place” by Barry Lopez, he goes on to structure his arguments by stating the main point and then elaborating. The points that Lopez make connect to that of Jack London’s character and story in “To Build a Fire.”

Social location, or the status in life that people have because of their place in a society, have a huge impact on everyone. The impact that social location created could be neutral, but most of the time it will have a positive or negative impact on people. For example, an African American could be discriminated because of his ethnicity, or a patient will choose an older doctor when he needs a treatment. Different social location that we have will affect our decisions in everyday life, and most of the time it happened subconsciously, which means we don’t realize that the decisions we make are based on our social location. Like everyone else, I was affected by my own social location, both positively and negatively.

The reading "Visibility: The Creation of Place" by Yi-Fu Tuan was mainly discussing what makes up a place and why do people give some form of significance to certain places. This book made me say and wonder why do we claim a place important. I think humans have an emotional and political thought while naming a place. I also wonder can humans be the only ones to name a place. We see animals claim territory in the wild, but some of the times humans take over it. If animals have an emotional bond to a place just as humans do why do we take over. While emotions and political reasons might be a reason we name a place, what makes us want to see a landscape. I think it has to deal with the unfamiliar of the landscape. Humans get so caught up in an

Expressing myself through writing has always exhilarated my mind. Throughout grade school, I was continuously composing poems and short stories, not only for class assignments, but for the pure joy of doing it. However, entering a college English course terrified me. Having graduated fourteen years prior, and only flexing my writing muscles for personal journal entries and job resumes, I felt intimidated. Yet, I understood that in order to succeed in college, and my future career, I would need to absorb the knowledge of techniques, structures, and critical thinking skills presented within this course.

Beech, Suzanne E. (2014). Why place matters: Imaginative geography and international student mobility. Area, 46(2), 170-177. Retrieved from Academic Research Library database.

The article does an excellent job in implications of the interconnections between people and locations, two important aspects within human geography. For example, the global use of landmines would be an example of spatial diffusion (Knox, 2013, p. 23). Landmines are explosive weapons that indiscriminately target civilian and combatants. Their cheap costs and high effectiveness against humans saw such weapons employed in many military conflicts across the globe. Non-governmental organizations also represent the correlation between people and places as NGOs by their mission objectives and physical work, are carried across numerous places around the world. More famous NGOs would be like the World Health Organization or the Red Cross, famed for

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” Today, we are all scattered across the world, yet every individual is defined by their sense of place. We are defined by our religion, nationality, family name, and etc. These factors influence a person’s choices, opinions, and future life choices. Thus, the importance behind an individual’s sense of place is what they are a product of. In other words, our family origins are the “bridge to our future.”

The ability to contact others so simply has led to a decline in person-to-person communication. Access to technology, different interpretations, and unclear goals in online communication supply roadblocks to its use among wide groups. Indeed, it allows for “companionship without the demands of friendship” (Sandra). People can grow attached to technology and that for which it stands instead of other people. Furthermore, traditional cultures can become lost in the expansion of technology. Those who spread it view culture in relative, global terms and see technology as a benefit to them. Quite conversely, it has the potential to ruin the longstanding norms of a place and westernize it. As a result, the adoption of technology is not always appropriate for certain settings, and in many it must be closely monitored to ensure technology is conforming to the environment, not the other way around (Farahani). Therefore, human connection and cultural traditions are not to be overlooked in the expansion of technology and may provide argument points for the deceleration of

Ever since I was young, I have known technology to be a large instrument in my development and everyday life. Everyone had a technological device of one sort or another, just as they do now. I watched people cut themselves off from the world as their reliance on technology grew and the light dim from their eyes as their screens got brighter. The limitation of direct human contact due to the use of technology has had far more negative effects on society than positive, including (but not limited to) a new danger with strangers, distraction and alienation from human contact, and a wide variety of physical, emotional and mental disabilities. As the amount of direct contact has decreased, artificial or indirect contact has substantially increased, using the Internet as a primary platform. There are three very

What does it mean to have a sense of place? Some would say that is a trick question, simply because there is no clear-cut definition of what a sense of place is. Every individual’s sense of place is unique to them and it is based off of one’s own experiences, beliefs, and emotions. As J. Anderson, the author of Understanding Cultural Geography, stated “Place is one of the trickiest words in the English language, a suitcase so overfilled that one can never shut the lid” (Anderson 37). A sense of place is much more than an area of space, it is “the way in which places are experienced subjectively, and how they are created off of a basis crammed with emotions, feelings, and a sense of attachment that one has” (Cresswell 424). From the works of

When people think of their environment people think of their immediate surroundings; however, one's environment goes beyond and further into the psychological connection to one's personal environment. To further explain, Gallagher discusses three different aspects of The Power of Place: Outside In, Inside Out, and Synchrony. The book opens doors previously unnoticed about psychological ecology. From reading the book one learns that settings influence behavior more than the personalities of most people.

Computers and technology at large have changed the lives of many people in the world both positively and negatively. Computers have unveiled many things which have greatly influenced our lives. This has made many teachers and students to adopt their use in classrooms. However, the use of computers in our classrooms has been characterized by over reliance on them. Cyber space has also played key roles in our lives. For instance, there is an increase in the number of research papers done each day while, on the other hand, movies watched by students has increased. These can be controlled through regulations and legislation from the governing bodies. However, the author says that ‘Cyberspace is a voluntary destination’ and “Regardless of how many laws or lawsuit are launched, regulation won’t work”. However, many people have used virtual books for their own benefit helping them write good research papers. We will critically analyze the literature behind the use of technology, mainly computers, to see how they have influenced our lives both positively and negatively. We will also look at the effectiveness of computer usage in our classrooms today.