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Week 8
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Reading Response
Week #7 Response
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I feel that the readings for this week are a kind of high point in the class. In Fallen Giants the final first successful ascent of Everest is documented with the recounting of Hillary and Tenzing reaching the top after decades of various international failed attempts. Then we also read one of, if not the,…
Reading Response
Week Six
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Reading Response, Week 5
Week Five Response
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Imperial ascent was certainly an interesting book to say the least. I do not know exactly to make of it honestly, some of the ideas I thought were overly aggressive. For instance I doubt that Dr.Cook’s aim of climbing Denali was to assert his masculinity, no doubt it in all probability was a subconscious factor…
Reading Response, Week 4
Week Four in Review
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With the reading of Fallen Giants the history part of Mountaineering comes into sharp focus. No doubt an angle change from looking at metaphorical mountains and no longer are we studying the mountains of English and Petrarchan poems and works but actual concrete mountains in all of their glory. The angle of time is now…
Reading Response, Week 3
Week 3
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Mountains of the Mind is to say well titled, it chronicles the history of Eurocentric views towards mountains and perhaps more appropriate, it was to me at least, a very difficult book to work through. I found Macfarlane’s metaphors very dramatic and out of place in a nonfiction work; and it seemed to me he…
Reading Response, Week 2
Metaphorical Mountains
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To say that Daumal holds mountains as an ideal would be making a gross understatement. Mount Analogue is filled to the brim with helcionic comparisons between ideal states of being and mountaineering. Daumal makes an excellent point that in myth and folklore mountains are heavily featured as a means in which divinity meets humanity upon;…
Introduction
Introduction
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Hello my name is Megan M. Dolezal, I am an aspiring classicist and this is only my second semester at MSU and also as a History/secondary education major. Previously I was at MSU-B as a Literature Education major but was not as passionate about literature as I am about history. Needing a change in pace…