Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863, Louisville, Kentucky – May 8, 1932, West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American geographer. Ellen was the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and Emerine Price. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism. In a series of books and papers she communicated certain aspects of the work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel to the Anglophone community. Standard disciplinary accounts often attribute to Semple a prevailing interest in environmental determinism, a theory that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture however she is also associated with environmental influences as opposed to determinism. Semple studied at Vassar College and the University of Leipzig. She taught at the University of Chicago and Clark University. is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Louisville redirects here. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... West Palm Beach is a city located in Palm Beach County, Florida. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... A geographer is a crazy psycho whose area of study is geocrap, the pseudoscientific study of Earths physical environment and human habitat and the study of boring students to death. ... Friedrich Ratzels photograph from the University of Leipzig Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844, Karlsruhe, Baden – August 9, 1904, Ammerland) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for coining the term Lebensraum (living space). // Ratzels father was the head of the household staff of the Grand Duke of Baden. ... Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism, is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. ... Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Founded as a womens college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become coeducational. ... The University of Leipzig (German Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony (former Kingdom of Saxony), Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Statue at the center of campus of Sigmund Freud, commemorating his 1909 visit to the University Front Entrance to Clark Universitys Jonas Clark Hall, the main academic facility for undergraduate students For the university in Atlanta, see Clark Atlanta University. ...

Ellen C. Semple Elementary School in Louisville is named after Semple.

Works

• say wat she never did anything all she did was sit on the totlet
• say wat she hated the word history she did not like it at all she was like boring when she got into her class "history." By the way her mothers name was Alyass Ewing and her fathers name is dj young haha but for real she had 10 brothers and sisters their names were sam tate and katie abell and kenzie myers and adrianna ewing and cj williams and matt seja and mike seja and kayla york also ally stevens and the one that she hated was luke penrod. she got every thing from her mom the uglness and the fatness also the f's and d's on her report card. so that was the life of ellen churchill semple.

ellen also hated her mom!

References

• "Semple, Ellen Churchill." Notable American Women. Vol. 2, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975
• worldcat.org Accessed August 27, 2007

External links

• Works by Ellen Churchill Semple at Project Gutenberg