POLS 123 Lecture Notes - Urban Decay, Classical Liberalism, Distance Education

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 123
• Professor: Frank Bryan

Document Summary

Why vermont: vermont is damn unique- so small, so cold, so unique, so backwards. * future test question : people raised in the cold are different , vermonters: it s dark up here dour personality. Vermont for sun, spring: winter begins for a vermonter on june 21. Does this genetic code come from history and geography: once elected to washington from vt, you stay in office until you die. You ll never be defeated: this is why we haven t sent a woman to dc. Begins with geology of town soil type, etc: part ii: town in context of human history (40%) History of town (micro chasm of vt history) 1953-present: part iii: town in the modern period (1953-pres) (40%) Socio-economic structure (start from 1950, emphasize current period). This reminds me of a quote from the reading: The key is scale: difference between large-scale agribusiness and small, vt farms.