Four Corners

preserve and provide access online to collections for nearly 20 years. Currently, more than 120,000 items are available through the digital archives at http://www.nau.edu/library/archives. Individuals will discover photographs, maps, diaries, films, oral histories, and manuscripts. In 2015, we had online visits from every continent and over 50 countries, totaling more than 4 million views. Additionally, evolving teaching and learning strategies have attracted faculty to work with SCA archivists to engage students in active learning assignments involving primary source materials. Over the past five years, SCA has seen a steady 15% - 25% annual increase in hands-on class sessions. About the collections and programs. Located in the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, the Colorado Plateau contains one of the seven wonders of the world—The Grand Canyon. Because of Cline Library’s and Northern Arizona University’s central location to the Colorado Plateau, Special Collections and Archives is ideally positioned to focus on collecting the stories, images, and records of the region and considered the largest archival collection in the area. With its windswept mesas, colorful cliffs, water-carved slot canyons, chiseled earth, rich colors, and magnificent vistas, the Colorado Plateau is one of the most beautiful and unique areas in the world. The Plateau is noted for having ten national parks and eighteen national monuments within its boundaries—including…

their means of taking their territory might not have been very neighborly. According to Catherine Dold, the anasazi may have had a more powerful bite than bark. When resources ran out, it might have been necessary to take the resources of others. In ancient society, people may have been more cut-throat and feral. The anasaszi may have resorted to organized cannibalism to take resources from others, and protect themselves. They made themselves something to fear. All researchers can agree that the…

Collapse Throughout history there have been many civilizations and complex societies that have come and gone, these people were forced off their land by disease, human impact on the environment, warfare, and environmental and climate change all have been used by historians and archaeologist to explain the collapse of these civilizations. This essay will focus on two of these complex societies, the Mesa Verde region of the American Southwest and the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and exam the…

or ‘slum’ the meaning of squalid habitation, or the class reference with shantytown, namely, the depressed area where the very poor live”. In South Africa, this will be reminiscent of townships, kasi, and skwata camps. Four Corners is set in Cape Flats, one of the areas in the country that will perfectly resemble the Favela. The Cape Flats for years has been notorious for its gangsterism that literally exists on almost every street corner. The crimes include murder, rape, and armed robbery. The…

In August 1961, the documentary television program, Four Corners, made its debut. One of the first episodes, Box Ridge, is an investigative journalism piece that takes reporting to the unknown and underrepresented area of the Box Ridge Aboriginal Reserve, in hopes to make Box Ridge widely acknowledged and be a new representation for the Aboriginal community. Reported by Michael Charlton, a non-indigenous man, the film is reflective of the deplorable conditions the Aboriginal community endured…

Four Corners is a narrative South African film centred around the gang culture in South Africa, with specific relevance to Cape Town. Through the implementation of cinematic elements, the film offers a realistic perspective of the impact of gangesterism on communities and families within the city. By analysing the context that the film is set in, and critically evaluating these cinematic elements, a greater understanding can be gained of what the impact of gangsterism in South Africa is. Set…

The Day in the Close I stare at the four pucks below me resting innocently on the plexiglass. Feeling the bottom-heavy stick in my hands through the old rough gloves I’m wearing. Rylan watches expectantly. I breathe in. He’s been trying too but it’s all on me now, four shots. I breathe out. It was anything but your average Monday. The last day of school had been last Wednesday and I was enjoying the fact that I didn’t have anything to do. I take my time waking up enjoying the feelings of…

Apologising, I straighten his coat. His face turning red, he babbles angrily. People around us notice the commotion, coming over to help him get his balance, taking advantage, I ‘accidentally’ skew his balance. Reaching to help him, my hand slips into his pocket, pulling out his wallet, quickly weighing it in my hand, I slide it into my back pocket. Catching his wrist I clumsily pull him forward, unclasping his watch. A Rolex. Score. I scamper away, panting and apologising, trying hard not to…

Another chair flew across the room while you laugh with glee at Soldier 76's rage. "Let me see you! I can feel that your here moving my things, frying my electronics. I can hear your laughter. Your empty words of sympathy to comfort me.. Show yourself or leave!" You rematerialize enough to appear but remain transparent. "Why should I give you the gift of peace when all you gave me was pain?". Jack had snatched you away from your home one night when you were sleeping. You woke up screaming…

It’s not unusual for children and adults alike to get nervous when visiting the dentist. With its sedation dentistry services, Four Corners Dental Group caters to anxious patients. Serving the Anchorage and Wasilla communities, these dentists are dedicated to providing affordable dental care in a friendly and soothing atmosphere. For those who can’t calm down in the dentist’s chair, this dental practice also provides the option of sedation dentistry. Sedation dentistry exists at various levels,…