Adam's Peak Research Paper

Abigayle Sankovitz 10 December 2017 Final Project-Peak I found the novel, Peak, by Roland Smith to be particularily interesting and have chosen that as my final project lesson plan story to focus on. This was a story I was fortunate enough to read as a child, and it has always stuck in my mind as a compelling and interesting story, which held true through reading it once again for this course. This novel appeals to both male and females, and although it is an action/adventure females and males both are able to find a way to become engaged while reading, which is especially important when creating an interesting lesson plan. Time Frame

10 feet from the top of the deadliest mountain in the world, a mountain that captivated thousands of people over centuries, 14-year-old Peak Marcello is about to become the youngest climber ever to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. However, Peak suddenly stops and doesn’t go to the summit. Instead, he helps his friend Sun-jo gets there first so Sun-jo becomes the youngest climber to reach Mt. Everest. Peak helped Sun-jo achieve fame and glory by reaching the mountain, yet he had not. What happened that made Peak make this decision? The author of the novel Peak, Roland Smith shows Peak as a self-centered boy who realizes that doing the right thing is more important that any accomplishment.

"This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operation from your sight." Page 27

The cold harsh winds of the winter whistled through the ranch. Nothing moved, the grounds lay bare the only sign of life was an illuminated window on the far side of the silent ranch. The light came from a small wooden shack; the shack appeared newer than the rest of the weather worn buildings, it also looked better cared for than the other buildings. Next to the shack was a small garden and in it were gravestones. Two were lined side by side, but another sat lonely in the corner of the garden. The lonely gravestone was simple it was made from wood unlike the other two that had been carefully crafted out of stone. Then a creak echoed around the garden and the shack, it was no louder than a whisper but in a place where nothing made a single

Alse Young of Windsor, Connecticut, was accused and hung for being a witch in the thirteen colonies. Very little is known of Alse Young; Her existence is only known for being a witch. She is believed to be married to John Young. Alse had a daughter named Alice Young Beamon. There is only that she was a women and was hung at the Meeting Square House in Hartford, Connecticut, on what is now known as the site of the Old State House. On May 26th, 1647, Alse young was hanged.

The African Burial Ground National Monument in New York recognizes the free and enslaved Africans buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground from the 1690s to 1794 (NPS, 2015). Over time, as the population and modern development proceeded, the cemetery became forgotten. A landfill created over the top of the site, sealed it off from the public’s knowledge. In 1991, contractors were prepping the land for a 34-story, 276-million dollar federal office building (GSA, n.d.). To go forth with construction, contractors worked in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (GSA, n.d.). Together, these acts require publicly funded projects to be surveyed by archaeological field-testing methods,

This road borders a wide expanse of land that is scattered with white crosses, which were used to collect and burn methane gas, and is marked by a soaring black monolith, the tombstone for the whole grave. Initially, it was a military base during World War Two, but it was converted into a government building and park in the late 1990’s. Following Elisha, a large portion of the land was converted once again into a massive graveyard. Requiring dump trucks and garbage trucks, the hole eventually filled up with bodies and subsequently, layered with dirt and

Charles W. Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 16, 1817.] His parents were Benjamin and Susannah Goodhue Adams. Benjamin was related to President of the United States John Adams.In 1819, the Adams family moved to New Albany, Indiana, where Charles was a clerk in a mercantile house between 1830 and 1835. Adams moved to Helena, Arkansas in 1835 and became a cashier in a mercantile house. In 1837, he became cashier of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas. After studying law at night, he became a lawyer in 1839. In the early 1840s, Adams slaveholder.entered into a law partnership with William K. Sebastian, who became a United States Senator in 1848.Adams was a judge from 1852 to 1854.He also became a large cotton planter and

Ever since my sister attended Troy University and told me about all the superior activities Troy has to offer, I have wanted to attend this college. Troy has an outstanding nursing program, and that is the career field I plan on going into prior graduation. I have always wanted to specialize in neonatal nursing with sick babies. Troy also has some awesome sororities at their school I am interested in being a part of. Alpha Gamma Delta is the sorority I am most interested in. They strive to achieve academic excellence and they help out their school as much as they can. Lastly, Troy has a very beautiful, clean, and safe campus. Feeling safe while walking around your college is a very important factor to me.

Adam shepard was more admirable and left a bigger impact on many people. The reason I say Adam is because he worked for where he was and made others realize that it is possible to obtain the American Dream. Chris McCandless was a complete different person he did things that were admirable but I don’t find him an admirable person. Through everything he went through he did everything wrong, many people go through a hard time and if everyone did what he did this world would be completely different. What Adam Shepard did was not only for himself but impacted others to believe they can accomplish the same goals.

In 1860 William James Powell, age twenty-one is living with his father Barzilla Powell in Chariton Township, Macon, Missouri. Included in the family of Barzilla Powell is his wife Willie Ann along with eight additional children besides William. Using the places of birth as a guide it is appears that Barzilla Powell and his family moved from North Carolina to Missouri in about 1853. William has two older brothers Sydney age

J.A. Mulkey, a lone cowboy, looking for a claim to set, was the start to a small town. He set a claim Northeast of Leedey on the Mckenzie Flats right by the Chisholm Trail. In 1895, Mulkey started a post office out of his half dugout house, with cedar logs. In 1898 or 99 Sam Stout moved the post office to his grocery store west of the original site. The post office was moved once again, in 1911, to its present site two miles south of Camargo on the east side of the road. Soon the little post office turned into Trail, a booming town in western Oklahoma, full of nesters and cowboys.

Adam Lind Leslie played a small but important part in the gold mining industry in NSW, during the 19th century. Without his efforts to comfort the miners, Australia’s gold industry would never of been so successful.

Purity is a gift that God gave us since the creation of the time. God created Adam in his own image and resemblance, althoug without the knowledge of good and evil. By virtue, God did not wanted Adam to have the same level of knowledge or to be superior as him. When God realized that Adam was by himself," he took one of his ribs and closed over the flesh were it had been, and the Lord God build the rib He had taken from the human into a women and He brought her to the human" (The Norton Anthology World Literature, Genesis, pg 96). They were created to become one that is why Adam expressed his emotion when God brough the women "he says this one at last, bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, This one shall be called women for from men was

Princeton University is a lively group of grant and discovering that stands in the country's administration and the administration of mankind. Sanctioned in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-most established school in the United States. Princeton is an autonomous, coeducational, nondenominational establishment that gives undergrad and graduate direction in the humanities, sociologies, common sciences and building.