Looking For Alaska Research Paper

In the book, Race Across Alaska, by Libby Riddles, Libby is an up and coming musher who has no sponsor and no money. However, she takes her love of adventure and the sport to the Iditarod and ends up winning. The first few years, after moving to Alaska, were hard for Libby. She had moved to Alaska from Wisconsin when she was 16 with her brother and decided to become a professional musher. Due to this she's paid very little and her track record was not great, so she was forced to live in a trailer with no heating or electricity. She could only eat the food she hunted. After years of living like this and training Libby decides to race in the Iditarod, an 11,049-mile race .through the tundra, for her third time in 1975, and she ended up winning.

To get to alaska people take many routes, like the all water route, the all Canadian route or the Skagway(Dyea) route. The all water Route is expensive but a safer way to alaska, it goes from seattle and goes through the gulf of Alaska to get to St. Michael's which is a couple days walk from Dawson. The Canadian route comes from the south west of dawson river though Canada, this is a foot route and it’s very dangerous. The Skagway, another foot Route, walks along the Pacific ocean up to Dawson city. That is the most common Route to Dawson city.

The Alaska Purchase happened back in 1867 followed by the Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War. The Russian Empire believed that the Russia Alaska was strategically difficult colony to defend against the British Columbia. The Russian Empire was already in financial troubles before the Crimean War but the loss increased the debt. Russian emperor feared to lose the Alaska without any compensation in future conflicts with the Britain. Plus Russia needed money desperately. For that reason, Czar Alexander II decided to sell it and attempted to sell it to the United States.

Yes, this book does have a message and it is moral. The main purpose of the author is to tell a story about the Alaskan landscape and about the Alaska experience of a couple who have always wanted a child and when they do have one it dies so they decide to move up to Alaska to start their new life their so that they can forget about their old life. The passage that I am going to use is in Chapter One the Wolverine River, Alaska 1920. “She had imagined that in the Alaska Wilderness silence would be peaceful, like snow falling at night, air filled with promise but no sound, but that was not what she found. Instead, when she swept the plank floor, the broom bristles stitched like some sharp toothed shrew nibbling at her heart. When she washed

Perry and his dad exhaust all of their energy and resources on one thing” building a beautiful trapper's lodge, one that should have attracted many tourists. Alas, the few it did attract, those using their expendable bounty of wealth on a vacation to Alaska, simply stopped, snapped a photo lacking snetiment, and went on their merry way. They were utterly unaware of the two men they were effectively robbing. It continued on like this until one day, a blow out over Perry’s one-too-many biscuits which ended with Perry at his father’s throat. Literally… “My hands got hold of his throat.

Montana is a large and lovely state. It has a population of 1,005,141 people. The big sky of Montana covers more than 147,046 square miles. It is considered the fourth largest state in the nation. The size of Montana is equivalent to the combined size of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York. It is located in the North West of the United States. Granite Peak is the highest point in Montana.

In novel, Step From Heaven by Na, An and Looking For Alaska by Green, John, two unique characters are introduced. Young Ju from Step From Heaven and Miles or Pudge from Looking For Alaska. These two adolescents have to go through different challenges. As they face adversities, they react in different ways. However, they were able to overcome those obstacles due to the guidance of their characteristics. Additionally, those adversities helped them reveal their real identities. These two characters live different lives but face similar challenges.

The Alaskan Gold Rush (Klondike Gold Rush) was a migration of an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike Region in search of gold. Gold was discovered by local miners in August of 1896 which caused the prospectors to travel in. The gold rush ended in 1899 with very few people actually striking it rich.

“Gold!! Gold!! Gold!!” I heard a newsboy crying out the Seattle Post- Intelligencer morning’s headline at the Puget Sound area on July 17, 1897.The Puget Sounds residents gathering at the small waterfront were been attracted by the tempting title. The message had sent shock waves across the entire North America. Within days, I saw thousand of fortune seekers were gave the risks of their lives and times steps on to the unknown adventures of finding “Gold”. The stampeders were eagerly to bought the supplies and then boarded ships bound for the wild unknown of Alaska and Canada. As a lumber worker, I did not have much interest on gold as those fortune seekers did. As far as I know, the cry of “Klondike gold rush” had become the first impression of then world’s imagination to thought of Seattle. From my understanding, the frenzy activity had ensured Seattle position

Throughout the story the author captures the meaning of true friendship. As the book progressed, the bond between them grew stronger and stronger. “‘...we will deal with those bastards, Pudge. I promise you. They will regret messing with one of my friends.” (Green 28). The Colonel was helping out Pudge in the first chapters in the book, shown in this passage. Not only the Colonel helped from the very beginning but so did Alaska. “ I’m sorry but that's bullshit. You can't just throw him out of class.”(Green 39) Alaska was also sticking up for Pudge even though she got herself kicked out of class as well. Teaching the reader that friends are supposed to be there for one another. While reading further into the book, it portrays the loyalty that lies within a friendship. When the three friends were caught smoking in the woods by their superintendent, Alaska and the Colonel took all of the blame, covering for Pudge. They did Pudge a favor and did not snitch on him, where most students would

Washington state is home to many beautiful plants and animal. The best thing in the Pacific northwest is not the apples or the amazing hikes the best thing is the fishing industry. When most washingtonians are reading this The only thing they should be asking themselves right now is why are still reading this when you could be on some beautiful lake or river catching those monsters!

Dozing off in a jampacked SUV during a long and tedious three hour drive from Troutdale, Oregon to Kennewick, Washington isn’t exactly how I’d like to spend my weekends, but these trips have come to represent a symbol of how hard work, grit, and determination shaped my grandparent’s lives; so that I could have a better one. Growing up until last year, my grandparents from my mom’s side were never really around, as they lived three hours away in a small city named Kennewick, Washington. As a result, my family made regular trips to visit them about every two months so that we could maintain a tight bond. I had always thought of these random visits to my grandparents as ordinary and monotonous drives to be with family, but as I have matured I’ve

Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska

Alaska locates at the very north of the pacific ring of fire. The earthquakes occurred in Alaska region are more than all other 49 states combined. More than 24000 earthquakes every year and on average, every 2 years, a major earthquake that is more than 7 magnitudes is recorded. In 2014, the Earthquake Center in Alaska reported an all-time high record of over 40,000 earthquakes. Figure 1 shows the very recent seismic activities around Alaska area, most of them are small magnitude and could happen few times a day. It is also home to the second largest earthquake worldwide which happened on March 1964.

I chose the novel “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, because I already read a reading sample in my English lessons in Germany from this book and I really liked the style of writing the author used. I also chose this novel, because many of my friends said it was a good book and worth reading, besides the fact, that the book is well-known for some of its quotes (“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane”) and the awards it won (Michael L. Printz Award). The author is also known for his book “The fault in our stars”, which is another one of his four books.