Tag: Moravian

  • If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a GIS map is worth a million. 

    Throughout this course we have looked at several ways to organise information and present it in such a way that it is more meaningful than before. The creation of our very own GIS maps are a prime example of this. Bodenhammer emphasises the meaningfulness of maps by stating that “all spaces contain embedded stories based on…

  • Moravian Missions from January 25th to February 3rd

    This is the complete map that John Edler created to show the missions represented in his section of the Powell Diary. It has about 9 complete slides all detailing the important components of the daily posts by Powell himself.

  • Powell Diary TEI

    Please post the links to your TEI compliant XML encoded Powell files to this page! Duke Repko – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell1.xml Matt Lucas – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell2.xml John Edler – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell3.xml Ryan Clifford – http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell4.xml Madeline Purdy –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell5.xml Jiayu Huang –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell6.xml Qijing Zheng –http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell7.xml Sir Nicholas Miller http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell8.xml Claire Maree W O’Bryan http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell9.xml Complete version is here http://www.students.bucknell.edu/projects/HUMN10001/Powell/content/Powell_Compiled.xml

  • Distant reading or missed-it reading?

    The concept of distant reading is seen as the “improper way” to read a text, according to many scholars of literature. Essentially, distant ready is a way to encompass and learn from many texts without closely reading them. Of course there is the practical reason for distant reading; it takes considerably less time and can…