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Descriptive Essay, Andy Christopher Bates
Visionaries Of The Road, Storm A. Wright
Visionaries Of The Road, Storm A. Wright
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
What is space? It is a personal concept that people develop while on journeys toward discovery. Through means both intentional and not, that space can be shared with the world and make the knowledge gained on the journey available to anyone with the same curiosities. By looking into the travels of Ezra Meeker on the Oregon Trail, Horatio Nelson Jackson across country, and William Least Heat-Moon on the blue highway, space can be conceptualized and understood as these three men allow us to understand them through their own words and experiences.
Life On Wheels, James C. Mangum
Life On Wheels, James C. Mangum
English Department: Traveling American Modernism Posters (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This analysis offers an insightful look into an aspect of travel and modernity that has gone seemingly unnoticed in the culture of American Mobility. As a social product space is created to serve the function of something integral in society. Working individuals need offices for example, students need schools, and citizens need residences. These are created spaces of society that intersect the realities of life, and an automobile is how we get to and from these spaces. Modernity has allowed us to stretch the ideas of mobility and space by combining the two. This analysis is an in depth look …
The New Hearth: The Creation Of A Mobile Space, James C. Mangum
The New Hearth: The Creation Of A Mobile Space, James C. Mangum
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
The New Hearth: The creation of a Mobile Space
Mangum, James. Kutztown University, (4 December 2018).
This analysis offers an insightful look into an aspect of travel and modernity that has gone seemingly unnoticed in the culture of American Mobility. As a social product space is created to serve the function of something integral in society. Working individuals need offices for example, students need schools, and citizens need residences. These are created spaces of society that intersect the realities of life, and an automobile is how we get to and from these spaces. Modernity has allowed us to stretch the …