This study was interesting to examine how identity is tied to place. Positioned in the minds of those that give it meaning, “sense of place issues in a stream of symbolically drawn particulars-the visible particulars of local topographies, the personal particulars of biographical associations, and the notional particulars of socially given systems of thought” (Basso 1996:144). In other words, movement within a landscape will assign meaning to different places in that area.

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. This tutorial explores why the world's tropical forests are disappearing focusing on Latin America and the Amazon Basin

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. Modern popular culture is seeing a revival of interest in primitive skills.

Following an extensive research and documentation process, the Grinnell Historic Preservation Commission, the Grinnell Historic Neighborhood Association, and additional volunteers received good news in December of 2008: Their efforts to put the North Grinnell Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places had been successful. This area is made up of a 3.5 by 5-block rectangle bordered by Park Street, 6th Avenue, West Street, and 11th Avenue (Map 1).