Extreme Of The Mohave Dessert

As I lay there in the sand, the burning pain surging from where the surprisingly sharp-edged seat - that in a twist of tragic irony was the very same vehicle I attempted to draw satisfaction from - had dug into my legs, I mulled over what put me in that position. I was in Ottawa on holiday, the city before this city in which my life was idyllic, where I was surrounded by who I once considered to be lifelong friends playing in the park with me, enveloped in a deep passion for the place where I was born and my family still lived happily together. Being uprooted and haphazardly transported to a city seemingly an entire world away with only one of my rocks to rely on for reasons not entirely known to me was a horrible experience, and I fell into a deep depression when I made it here to Edmonton. I looked upon the dullness and unfamiliarity of oil country and compared it to the manicured government town that was the Ottawa I had so many fond memories in and found it falling hopelessly short; I then retreated back into those memories as a refugee. I grew older of course, and over time I began to create new memories and nurture a different kind of love for Edmonton and Alberta. Yet when I returned to Ottawa, and reconnected with old friends and family members I began to wonder just how different my life could’ve been if I stayed in Ottawa, if I didn’t have to dissolve old bonds to forge new ones or waste time wallowing in self-doubt over my parent’s separation. Would I

What’s the best way to face a difficult situation? Day in and day out, life circumstances force people to live their lives differently than planned. Some struggle with this concept, never seeing the silver lining in the unexpected turn of events. Others however, live their lives as normally as they can, regardless of whatever they’re faced with. During the second world war, America was faced with the question of how to keep their country safe from enemies that might live within its borders. Although every American citizen is legally innocent until proven guilty, all’s fair in love and war. America saw no choice but to lock away immigrants and their American born children. This is detailed in The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell as

I grew up in Keizer, Oregon and was involuntarily forced to move to Nevada County when I was around nine years old, all because my older sister had to go and get pregnant. Plus my mom wanted to be “closer to the family.” I had to drop everything I knew since kindergarten to move to some town in the middle of nowhere with no friends, all because my sister was having a baby? At the time it felt unjustified, but what say does a nine-year-old have when it comes to major events anyway? None. I'm so glad that snotty nosed nine-year-old didn't have a single say because I would not be who I am today or where I am at this point in my life if it wasn’t for Nevada County. Living here was truly a fate bound journey that has given me the opportunity to

The climate in this region consists of sweltering summers with temperatures near 100 degrees Fahrenheit and chilly winters with temperatures ranging to the low 40s. Abrupt and rapid weather swings are also common, temperatures can drop 50 degrees in a day. The Edwards Plateau does not have a wet or dry season, 1-2 months without rain can occur at any moment. It has a consistent humidity with it being usually at 70%, but lowers in the winter and

Do you think looking forward and trying to change a bad situation into a good one for having a better life is a wrong decision? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel is about Arnold Spirit; everyone calls him Junior. He is a teenage boy with a tough life who lives with his family in poverty on a Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He hates living in poverty and wants something better for himself. “I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist”(6) he claims. His living conditions are horrible; he studies in a school with a lack of resources. He considered the different aspects of moving to Reardan, he struggled about leaving

The climate including average temperature and rainfall figures. The climate at Molong differs depending on the seasons. The summers are hot and dry with temperatures getting up to 40 then all the way down to below 0 in winter with snow in the higher

Everyday gets harder and harder to survive. The storms are getting worse. They make my husband's farm all dry. It’s very hard to find food when we can’t grow our food either. The stock market just crashed a few years ago and everything is just getting worse. Everyone in our little town in Kansas is struggling it's not just our family. Last week the dust got so bad outside we were trapped inside our house for almost two days. The wind would be so strong and the heat would also be so bad it would burn our skin if we went outside. I know the whole town is struggling even though I haven’t been outside for a few weeks. We lost all our chickens from the wind. I wonder if anyone else has lost any of their animals too? If my family was strong enough

The ability to cope with a new environment immediately is what very few people possess. Ishmael Beah and Muhammad Saeed, both went through massive changes in environment, with led them having many negative experiences. My situation was very similar to both of them. I used to live in Pakistan and just recently came to Canada. Pakistan was a magnificent place, but many people still consider it as a third world country. Most of my family and some of my friends also live there. Overall life was satisfactory, but my family was in need of change. For ages I had no idea that we were going to move to Canada, so my parents did a great job keeping it a secret. On our last month in Pakistan, all my immediate family came to my house from wherever they were settled in the world. My cousins, who were in Saudi Arabia came and even my uncle arrived from Canada. We had a huge party when my uncle arrived at my house because, he lived in Canada and rarely visited. On the very last day of us living in Pakistan, I gave my farewells and with my parents and two brothers we got ready to start our new life in a foreign land. I thought life in Canada would be effortless and always amusing. Since I was lost in the fake image of life in Canada, to my surprise it wasn’t effortless and amusing and

“We are moving to Arizona. It’s your decision whether or not you come with us.” As a seven year, old girl, this was one of the hardest things to hear from the woman I was supposed to trust most, my mom. I had to make a decision whether or not to move across the country with my mom and a stranger, or move in with my dad and stay near my family. I immediately responded with “I will be staying in Massachusetts”. Although I knew that this decision would flip my world upside down, I didn’t know how much I would personally change because of it. In that moment, I didn’t know that I wouldn’t be seeing my mom for another year. I didn’t know that our relationship would never be the same again. That one sentence changed the whole course of my life. In that split-second decision, I went from a seven-year-old little girl, blind to the reality of life, into a mature young girl forced to swallow the idea of her mother leaving her behind.

The Mohave Desert spreads across Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and some parts of the State of California; and its climate reflects extremes of hot and cold. At winter temperatures are cold, as low as 8 degree Fahrenheit, while the summer reaches about 120 degree Fahrenheit, winds are present year round and blow at about 25 MPH regularly and there are gusts of 75MPH. There is no time were the extreme weather is sustainable.

The Central Valley is located centrally in the heart of California and is surrounded by two mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the east and the Coast Range to the west. Due to its location, the area is plagued by poor air quality and extremely hot summers. The Central Valley is primarily known for its agriculture. However, for more than five years now, California has been in a drought. It has experienced some of the worst heatwaves in the country, with temperatures ranging from 105 to 110 degrees fahrenheit for months on end. This can be attributed to the rainshadow effect, which leaves the region with very little precipitation for a majority of the year. Most of the moisture filled clouds are blown into the surrounding mountain

Choosing just one is difficult. The ultimate troublesome decision I had to make was the one when I decided to run away. Many factors contributed to that thought. I brought it all upon myself though. I had gone behind my parents back and did some stuff that was not so mature. I had lost my parents trust by virtue of my own selfishness. I had written a note saying that I was sorry for all of the chaos I had caused and I didn’t want to cause any other fights or bring any deeper stress upon this family. To be honest, I don’t regret my decision, because I stayed home. After praying for a few hours, contemplating my choices, and finally coming to a conclusion, I realized that what I was wanting wouldn’t turn out the way I would have expected it to. I was under the impression that without me there to cause any more disorder or chaos or argue and cause elevated stress levels, everything would be fine. Alternatively, that would just cause more trouble. Considering, they would be in enhanced stress if they had to try to find me. So, they would be really worried and troubled. Overall, I believe that I made the right choice. If I left that night and never came back, I wouldn’t be here. I would probably not be on the same path that I am now. It would have pained my parents so much if I ran away. , I don’t even what to think about what would have happened if I ran away. Although, it’s a place I had never wanted to venture in my mind, but I know that it cannot be ignored. Back in the deep corners of my mind, too scary, too unnerving. I’m very content with my decision. My youth group pastor, Steve Basset, said the most difficult decision he had ever had to make was when he was a child. He made the bad decision to do drugs. He regrets it a lot, although he said he wouldn’t want to change what he did because then he wouldn’t have met us. He wouldn’t be on the path that he was on and he wouldn’t be our youth pastor. Steve said

The blinding light coming from the outside poured into me. I grabbed the air reaching for water just like looking for an oasis in a desert. My eyes, yawned by the sun poking into my eyes and I realized that I was back in my house; my old jacketed

The mountains usually have a cooler temperature, around 74° Fahrenheit in the summer months. The amount of rain and precipitation varies every year, sometimes with long droughts. The Coastal Plain and Piedmont receive between 46 and 52 in of precipitation a year, while the mountains receive between 56 and 76 in.

For me, I have recently found just how accurate the following saying is…. “You never know what you have until you do not have it anymore.” When you lose something or someone you have tried to fight for through thick or thin, it is almost as though you want to give up completely and not have hope things may end up being rebuilt down the road. At least for me, I worked so hard and gave my all in order to help save something very dear to me and in the end it felt as though it were not worth it. What I realized though is that what I had fought for so long ended up being something I could not keep. As much as it hurts and pains me to not have what I fought for, so much so that I want to curl up in a ball and hide from the world at times, I also know that the hurt is in a great deal related to the fact that who I