The University of Arkansas has over a hundred communities for college students to join. These communities in some sort of way are all connected to each other. The communities can be connected through certain dialect, traditions, and goals. Communities at the University of Arkansas also share a really important connection to nature. Whether the communities realize these connections or not, they are indeed connected to nature. Communities relate to nature through their interaction with nature and how the communities perceive what wilderness is. Sometimes it is hard for college students in communities to see how their communities are connected to other communities especially in nature. Our environmental awareness changes how we see our impact on nature and how we consume resources in our community.
Throughout the semester our class of English Composition II, Conceptions of Nature, have been focusing on and writing about nature. We have learned many different ways that nature is interpreted and how different cultures write, speak, and interpret nature. We were assigned a fieldsite of our choosing and were instructed to visit said site at least weekly throughout the semester. These visits allowed us to grasp a better understanding of how we are connected to nature, so we could write how we feel about nature. Our origins of nature also were discussed. These nature origins are vital in order to help us understand where our own interpretations of nature come from. The class was assigned discourse communities in order to see how these communities interact with nature. Through our discourse communities, we explored how these communities interact with nature and the conceptions themselves and outsiders of the community, perceive these interactions. After interacting with these discourse communities, our class came together and drew comparisons between our communities. We narrowed the communities down to food, perceptions, and nature interactions. Throughout the blog, we correlate these three communities to find the connections that all three have with nature.
Through the evolving ideas of our groups, we have found through research, interviews and being involved in communities, that we all have witnessed the impacts humans have on the overall quality of our Earth. Everything relates to nature whether it has a small or large impact, humans will always contribute to the constant changes of nature. Our specific communities relate to nature through our interactions and how our communities perceive what wilderness is. Our communities are also linked by the environmental awareness we have of the world. The discourse communities share similarities even from the variety of groups from club sports to the UAPD, we all have found our consumption of resources and how this results in our campus atmosphere at the University of Arkansas. Though our discourse communities are different, they all connections nature is similar ways. Our EcoWoke team has been researching and collecting information about our specific discourse communities and how sustainability in our lives relates to sustainability in nature.
Our goal for this blog is to inform fellow students at the University of Arkansas of how everyone can have an impact on nature and how we can work toward decreasing the amount of change we make to our environment. We have created a butterfly effect on our actions in how all of our behavior can change one thing that will lead to changing another thing. As students, we can make a difference by promoting environmental awareness and working toward a more sustainable campus at the University of Arkansas.
Throughout the semester our class of English Composition II, Conceptions of Nature, have been focusing on and writing about nature. We have learned many different ways that nature is interpreted and how different cultures write, speak, and interpret nature. We were assigned a fieldsite of our choosing and were instructed to visit said site at least weekly throughout the semester. These visits allowed us to grasp a better understanding of how we are connected to nature, so we could write how we feel about nature. Our origins of nature also were discussed. These nature origins are vital in order to help us understand where our own interpretations of nature come from. The class was assigned discourse communities in order to see how these communities interact with nature. Through our discourse communities, we explored how these communities interact with nature and the conceptions themselves and outsiders of the community, perceive these interactions. After interacting with these discourse communities, our class came together and drew comparisons between our communities. We narrowed the communities down to food, perceptions, and nature interactions. Throughout the blog, we correlate these three communities to find the connections that all three have with nature.
Through the evolving ideas of our groups, we have found through research, interviews and being involved in communities, that we all have witnessed the impacts humans have on the overall quality of our Earth. Everything relates to nature whether it has a small or large impact, humans will always contribute to the constant changes of nature. Our specific communities relate to nature through our interactions and how our communities perceive what wilderness is. Our communities are also linked by the environmental awareness we have of the world. The discourse communities share similarities even from the variety of groups from club sports to the UAPD, we all have found our consumption of resources and how this results in our campus atmosphere at the University of Arkansas. Though our discourse communities are different, they all connections nature is similar ways. Our EcoWoke team has been researching and collecting information about our specific discourse communities and how sustainability in our lives relates to sustainability in nature.
Our goal for this blog is to inform fellow students at the University of Arkansas of how everyone can have an impact on nature and how we can work toward decreasing the amount of change we make to our environment. We have created a butterfly effect on our actions in how all of our behavior can change one thing that will lead to changing another thing. As students, we can make a difference by promoting environmental awareness and working toward a more sustainable campus at the University of Arkansas.