John Mcphee's Chapter Summary

Introduction - For the period of Sunday, August 28th – Sunday, September 4th, 2011, students from the University of Saskatchewan geological sciences department along with professors Dr. Kevin Ansdell and Dr. Kyle Larson took part in a geologic field school in and around the city of Flin Flon, Manitoba. The purpose of this field school was for students to

How does one describe land? What determines how one describes it? Does it matter about what year the chapter is written? In Chapter 12 of Warkentin’s text, he elaborates on the spacial complexities humans had in British Columbia between 1840’s and early 2000’s. Warkentin flows from the Southern British Columbia region to the Central areas of British Columbia then continues observations to the Island-Pacific coast which finishes with the Metropolitan B.C. His expertise of the land is almost overwhelming with descriptions of the Natural features, resources, and settlements within the area expressing tremendous spacial and humanistic details, highlighting the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the important history between Aboriginals and the settlers of this time. Unlike Warkentin, Bone describes a

Jim Qwilleran the wealthy, middle-aged journalist that lives with two cat suddenly became Pickax City’s most outstanding citizen by solving two enormous mystery. He rents a Gage mansion from Junior Goodwinter Boulevard for the winter. Junior’s 88 years old grandmother named Euphiona Gage was found dead that in Florida retirement community home. Bedsides the death of Euphiona, Gil Inchpot a potato farmer in nearby Brr County is found murdered . Koko and Yum Yum the two cat of Jim Qwilleran invade the mansion’s of 50 closets and unearthing clues that not only solve the two mysteries, but also reveal a long buried story that links between them.

1) The book, 1491, by Charles C. Mann gives readers a deeper insight into the Americas before the age of Columbus, explaining the development and significance of the peoples who came before us. Moreover, Mann’s thesis is such; the civilizations and tribes that developed the Americas prior to the discovery by Europeans arrived much earlier than first presumed, were far greater in number, and were vastly more sophisticated than we had earlier believed. For instance, Mann writes, regarding the loss of Native American culture:

History outlines the role that different people played in the establishment of the present-day America. In the British North America, several men were engaged in the exploration of the land with some of them end up being termed as heroes in the long run. The activities which they were involved in during that time influenced the way the region came to be through personal attributes or even exploiting the native groups to ensure that they either benefited their country or themselves eventually. Most of the men were involved in the leadership of various groups, and their roles made an impact that even in the present day can be appreciated by all in the society. The history of the world is but the biography of great men who were also part of the America's history (Carlyle, 1993).

Driving down the Franconia Notch Parkway, the mountain walls rise up around me and consume me. On one side, the guardrail separates me from the cars speeding past in the opposite direction. On the other side, nothing is separating me from the slopes. My eyes slowly follow the smooth curvature of the faces of the mountains. Wind, rain, snow, and ice have shaped the rock in such a way that the rock looks like silk sheets. As my eyes take in more, they come across the sharp jagged edges and ridges where rocks have recently fallen and taken parts of the mountain as their casualties. The sun peeks from behind the summit and causes the great mountains to cast shadows on their smaller counterparts. Crimson, goldenrod, bronze, and saffron leaves dance across the air as the cool gusts of wind blow them along. Soon the trees will become bare and blend with the barren slopes above the treeline, but for now the contrast between the two is unmistakably noticeable.

Evaluate how Plate Tectonic Theory helps our Understanding of the Distribution of Seismic and Volcanic Events (40 marks)

The American frontier was a vast area of free land. The dividing line of the frontier was a boundary line that was continuously moving farther and farther west with each generation. It’s the frontier, and subsequently its boundaries, that determined the path of history more than other events. As the expansion of the west continued the attractions and conveniences of things were farther apart, yet the reward of moving westward reaped its benefits in the ways that each and every person had a chance to make their future and had the west as a blank canvas..

The world and its features we see surrounding us today have not been the same throughout all of time . A lot of people believe that the way the Earth looks today is the way it has looked since the beginning. This belief is far from true. The Earth has a history that has evolved over time just like everything else. We can view the history by examining the Earth’s crust in areas. The region of the Earth that is presently known as Canada has the world’s oldest history which makes it unique. Throughout this paper I will discuss how the area known as Canada became what it is.

N. Scott Momaday is the author of the memoir The Way to Rainy mountain. The Way to Rainy Mountain is about Momaday recollecting and remembering his childhood and culture memories while he is on his journey to a ridge that is located northwest of Wichita Range in Oklahoma that his people gave the name “Rainy Mountain” (Momaday 5). His people were the Kiowa people and they are a Native American tribe. The Kiowa people believed “that they entered the world through a hallow log” (Momaday 3). They are also a small tribe because “there was a woman whose body had swollen up with child, and she got stuck in the log”, so no one else could exit the log and enter the world (Momaday 16). Long before the Kiowa people began to reside in Oklahoma they resided near Canada. Momaday tells the story from a mythical view, historical view, and a personal view. Through the mythical view Momaday’s father is telling the myths of his people. The historical view are historical commentaries. In the personal view he tells the memories of his childhood and relates them to the myth his father has told. Animals, landscape and the seasons of the year kindle the Kiowas relationship with nature in which in turns helps the reader better understand and respect the Kiowa culture.

Just this past summer, under the hot, and sticky sun, we pushed our car to the limit, on our 1,000 mile journey to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, although in actuality we might have pushed our fears to the absolute limit. Flipping through the Colorado vacation brochure proved to have posed some interesting vacation destinations, such as "Big Bear Lake" and Trail Ridge Road. With the intent to get high in the sky, our family headed out the next morning to Trail Ridge Road, which is a road that takes you up to a staggering height of 12,000 feet. Although optimistic, we imagined of the vast fields of green, the glacier-topped mountains, and the valleys that undertake the them. As we climbed up to the peak, it seemed apparent that there

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Mark Pfetzer starts his climbing experience at twelve years old. He lives in Rhode Island, his director named Christian. Mark at first didn’t trust the rope, but he found where to put his feet, and gained confidence. He loved it. Mark has never liked ball sports, but instead hiking, running, karate, and fly fishing. Mark does not connect with many people his age, so Mark usually hung around people of an older age. To get his training going, Mark wanted to register for the Rock Gym, but has to be fifteen. Since he looks older for his age, he gets past by. Inside of the gym, there is a huge rock wall where he starts climbing on it. There he meets Geoff, a climber and a doctor who says he could do ice climbing if he gets sponsors. Mark starts mailing for sponsor to get $300 to climb Mt. Crawford.

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, extends for some 3,000 miles (4,800 km), that covers land in two North American countries! With a distance of 3,000 miles, the Rockies must have a variety of physical features and landscapes that makes it an attractive area to tour and explore. However, all of the human interest in this mountain range could come at a devastating cost. Disturbances such as resource extraction, tourism/settlement, and farming in the Rocky Mountain region must cease because they are causing major, irreversible environmental degradation.

Walter Coppinger, a Professor of Geosciences at Trinity College in San Antonio and long-time observer of Montana geology, was the first person to describe to me the many problems of the western rangelands that have developed out of the over-grazing of cattle. From a hilltop among the upland slopes of Whitehall, Montana, he pointed out a few patches of bare earth on the horizon and some gullying out of trails across the rangelands in the distance. Rangelands are areas of land on which livestock are left to roam and graze. Traditionally the great plains and rolling hills of the Western States have