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**Superposition
 
**Superposition
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        Plutarch: Great Men and their Character
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**Three Age Theory
        Toynbee:  Challenge and Response
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        Malthus Theory of  Population
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**Plutarch: Great Men and their Character
        Darwin:  Survival of the Fittest
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        Marx:  Material Dialectic
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**Toynbee:  Challenge and Response
        Turner: Geography and the Frontier
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        Radicals:  History is the Story of Who Won
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**Malthus Theory of  Population
        Boorstin:  The Unexpected
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        Cultural Relativism
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**Darwin:  Survival of the Fittest
    Why is history considered to be an interpretation of facts and events?
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**Marx:  Material Dialectic
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**Turner: Geography and the Frontier
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**Radicals:  History is the Story of Who Won
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**Boorstin:  The Unexpected
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*Cultural Relativism
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*Why is history considered to be an interpretation of facts and events?
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*Post notes from video on Geographic Imagination
 
*Post notes from video on Geographic Imagination
Post notes from Day the Universe Changed.
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*Post notes from Day the Universe Changed.

Revision as of 11:29, 15 August 2011

Concepts

  • What is geographic imagination and why is important?
  • Explain the four essential rules for an explanation to be considered scientific.
  • Why can there be exceptions to the essential rules? Explain.
  • Know the funnel of certainity and be able to explain it.
  • Give and define the characteristics of a good theory.
  • Define catastrophism
  • ID James Hutton
  • ID Charles Lyell
  • Define, explain and give an example of each.
    • Uniformitariansim-
    • Superposition
    • Three Age Theory
    • Plutarch: Great Men and their Character
    • Toynbee: Challenge and Response
    • Malthus Theory of Population
    • Darwin: Survival of the Fittest
    • Marx: Material Dialectic
    • Turner: Geography and the Frontier
    • Radicals: History is the Story of Who Won
    • Boorstin: The Unexpected
  • Cultural Relativism
  • Why is history considered to be an interpretation of facts and events?
  • Post notes from video on Geographic Imagination
  • Post notes from Day the Universe Changed.