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Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:317

Title: Experimental Studies of Adaptation in Clarkia Xantiana. I. Sources of Trait Variation Across a Subspecies Border
Description: We report fndings of reciprocal transplant experiments intended to tease apart the roles of differentiation and plasticity in producing phenotypic variation across a geographic border between two plant subspecies. Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana and C. xantiana ssp. parvifora are California-endemic annuals that replace each other along a westG??east gradient of declining precipitation.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:26666

Title: Guide to prairie sites near Grinnell, Iowa
Description: The Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College has prepared this brochure to help those wishing to visit prairie sites near Grinnell. The prairie blooms from May to October. Different species flower at different times, so repeat visits during a growing season will be rewarded with an ever-changing palette of colors. No two prairies will have the same mix of species.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:315

Title: Queering Hollywood's Tough Chick : The Subversions of Sex, Race, and Nation in The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Matrix, The Subversions of Sex, Race, and Nation in The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Matrix
Description: Examines the characterization of the tough chick in the action genre and the narrative function she performs.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3406

Title: Worker Motivation, Wages, and Bilateral Market Power in Nonunion Labor Markets
Description: The terms of market exchange can, under certain conditions, even in competitive markets, reflect underlying power relationships.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:11659