Classical Mythology 209 Greek women

1- Gynaikeion
The separation between the two sexes while worshipping or attending other religious services.


2- Parthenos
The title of a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena made by Phidias and housed in the Parthenon in Athens.


3- Sophrosyne
Is a Greek philosophical term etymologically meaning moral sanity and from there self control or moderation guided by true self knowledge.


4- Kore
Was the Queen of the Underworld. Aka Persephone


5- Nymphe
A nymph in Greek mythology is a female spirit typically associated with a particular location or landform.

6- Oikos
Is the ancient Greek equivalent of a household, house, or family.


7- Miasma
In Greek mythology, a miasma is a contagious power that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe.

The Arctic

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around The South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean (which overlies the North Pole) and parts of Canada, Greenland, (a Territory of Denmark), Russia, the United States (Alaska), Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Appalachian

Appalachian is mostly located in the United States but extends into southeastern Canada, forming a zone from 100to 300 miles wide, running from the island of Newfoundland 1,500 miles south-westward to central Alabama in the United States. The system is divided into a series of ranges, with the individual mountains averaging around 3,000 ft. The highest of the group is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet, which is the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River.

The Great Lakes

The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence forest region occupies a broad geographic range primarily in Ontario and Quebec. This region is distinguished by the presence of eastern White and Red pines and eastern hemlock and Yellow birch.

The Canadian Shield

The Canadian Shield also called the Laurentian Plateau, is a massive geological shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American or Laurentia creation. It is an area mainly covered by igneous rock which relates to its long volcanic history. It has a deep, common, joined bedrock region in eastern and central Canada and stretches north from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean, covering over half of Canada; it also extends south into the northern reaches of the United States. Population is scarce, and industrial development is minimal, although the region has a large hydroelectric power potential.

The Interior plains

The Interior plains Region of the United States and Canada falls within this area. The Interior plains were often covered by shallow inland seas. Sediments from the shield and the Rocky Mountains were deposited in these seas over millions of years. Eventually the Sediments were composed by the weight of the layers above into sedimentary rock. Part of the sedimentary rock deposited in these areas consists of coral reefs that formed close to the surface of seas during the Paleozoic era.

The Arctic Cordillera

The Arctic Cordillera is a vast, deeply dissected chain of mountain ranges extending along the northeastern flank of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from Ellesmere Island to the northeastern most part of the Ungava Peninsula in northern Labrador and northern Quebec, Canada. It spans most of the eastern coast of Nunavut with high glaciated peaks rising Through the Ice fields and some of Canada's largest ice caps, including the Penny Ice Cap on Baffin Island. It is bounded to the east by Baffin Bay, Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea while its northern portion is bounded by the Arctic Ocean.

Canadian Geography

Viewed by satellite, the face of Canada reveals six clearly defined landform regions: Cordillera, Interior Plains, Canadian Shield, Great Lakes- Saint Lawrence, Appalachian, and Arctic. All these regions occupy significant portions of Canada's vast expanse. Each possesses similar geologic structures, physical features, climatic conditions, soils, and vegetation. Considered as a whole, Canada's landforms encompass an unrivaled diversity of landscapes: spectacular mountain ranges, sweeping plains, rocky uplands, temperate lowlands, and frigid tundra. The forces of nature-our daily weather, for example- actively shape landforms. Some forces level landforms, others rebuild them. Over time, the impact of water, ice, and wind slowly and steadily reduce the mighty Rockies to rubble, while rivers bear away sediments to deltas and sea bed where new landforms wait to be born.

Geo

What is the power of place?

A concept from economic geography, which reveals economic strength and weakness of wealth.

What is the sense of a place?


Intense feelings people have for the place they live may be due to natural factors such as climate or cultural factors such as language.

Interesting Facts: Hildegard was also known as a visionary and prophetess. She started receiving visions when she was a child but it was only in her 40s when she decided to keep track of it in writing. Her 26 recorded visions are known as Scivias. She wrote," And it came to pass when I was 42 and 7 months old, that the heavens were opened and and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire brain. And so it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming and suddenly I understood of the meaning of expositions of the books.

Woman Mystics: Hildegard

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

HILDEGARD WAS BORN IN GERMANY

SHE HAD many visions

HILDEGARD WAS a Very NOBLE NUN

HILDEGARD WROTE MANY SONGS

HILDEGARD BEGAN a remarkable three decades of vibrant philosophical, artistic and scientific expression


Born: 1098, she was the tenth child of a noble German family.
Birthplace: Bockelheim, West Franconia (Germany)

Died: September17, 1179 in Rupertsberg, near Bingen

Also Known As: One of the earliest known female composers; Roman Catholic abbess, also called Hildegard of Bingen"Sybil of the Rhine" and Saint. Hildegard.

Although she hasn't been formally canonized, she is often referred to as Saint. HILDEGARD IN Germany, her feast day is celebrated on September17.

HILDEGARD had spent her thirty years in a CATHOLIC CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

Type of Compositions: She is particularly known for the plainsong setting of her poetry;
She also left behind works of theology and visionary writings.

Influence: Being the tenth child, Hildegard's parents dedicated her to the religious service. When she was s years old, she was sent to the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg to receive religious education. There she met Jutta, an anchoress born to a wealthy family who decided to dedicate her life to God.In 1136, Hildegard succeeded Jutta as prioress. She later left Disibodenberg and established a nunnery at Rupert berg.

Musical Work: In total, she wrote 77 chants and what is considered the first musical drama titled The RITUAL of the VIRTUES." Her poetry and musical compositions are divided into two large works; the Ordo Virtutum (The PLAY OF The VIRTUES) and Symphonia armonie celestinum revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations).

GEO Vocabulary-

Vocabulary-

Heartland: A geographic area based in which a nation's industry, population, and political power are concentrated; also known as a core.


Hinterland: A geographic area based on resource development that supplies the heartland with many of its primary products; also known as periphery


NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE Agreement: In January 1994, Canada the United States, and Mexico launched the North American Free trade agreement and formed the world's largest free trade area. The Agreement has increased trade among the three countries and rearranged the location of labor- intensive manufacturing firms to Mexico where wages are much lower than in either the United States or Canada.
(NORAD) headquartered in COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, as a binational command, centralizing operational control of continental air Defenses against the threat of Soviet bombers. In March1981, the name was changed to North American Aerospace Defense Command but the acronym NORAD continued to be used Since11 September 2001; NORAD is responsible for protecting North America from domestic as well as foreign air attacks.

Periphery: The weakly developed area surrounding an industrial core, also known as a hinterland.


Primary products: Goods derived from agriculture, fishing logging, mining, and trapping; non processed products.

Region: An area of the Earth's surface defined by its distinctive human or natural characteristics. Boundaries between regions are often transition zones where the main characteristics of one region merge into those of a neighboring region. Geographers use the concept of regions to study parts of the world.

Gross domestic product: An estimate of the total value of all materials, foodstuffs, goods, and services produced by a country or province in a particular year.

Geography

Course objectives At the end of the course the student will understand:

1. The physical and cultural characteristics of Canada.


2. important regional issues and problems.