Seesaw Trip to Mountain Washington
The wind howled with frenzied madness through the rocky mountaintops six thousand feet upwards during a freezing Spring afternoon, it lashed without mercy at tourists, rock, and the bare vegetation left. The creamy milk hued rocks were cut into rough prisms, stacked amid each other as jenga pieces, left there purposely for no purpose. The newcomers swayed like seaweed dancing on the ocean floor to climb over the boulders under the tyranny of the gale, still, amateurs and experts flew up the slopes like mountain goats, unfaltered and experienced. I was not an amateur or an expert, and neither will be in the foreseeing future. My pessimism was not due to the overwhelming fear of investing effort to improve or the difficulty of becoming an expert but the unconscious fear of death from falling or becoming mashed potatoes from boulders. Then
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However, my climb on the first president was not my first adventure up the the unfazed tall beasts. The beasts stood unparalleled longer than any immortal tree or hundred year old infant tortoise, and many stood towering over skyscrapers silently, growing mold on their caps. I have climbed mountains that spurred above the cold cotton candy clouds as the Yellow Mountain Range of China, which towered as tall as Mount Washington, still most of its lush green trail paths are paved for easy climbing and convey the mountains humid weather, where bamboo stocks were amble like grass. On the other hand, Mount Washington was two steps more difficult from the usual stroll in the damp forest of the Fells of Winchester. Arguably, I frequented the Fells every month, if there was free time to burn, I cruised through the forest’s damp earth, toddling my way over roots and rugged pebbles. Above all else, I roved
In Matthew Hedger’s article “Yosemite National Park Day Hikes: Vernal Falls Death March”, he claims that you don’t always know what you’re getting into and find that things are harder than they seem. Hedger supports his claim with a story of his hike up Vernal Falls. His purpose is to inform his readers that you can always get through difficult things and that they’re stronger than they think. The intended audience is anyone who enjoys a good story and wants to know about hiking.
The Battle of Lone Pine was an attack diverting the Turkish army allowing the ANZAC’s to reach high ground at Chanuk Bair and Hill 971 in 1915. The Battle met the criteria of a just war using the principles of no means malum in se, proportionality/military necessity and distinction. By adapting the attack to these just war criteria, the ANZAC’s were successful against the Turkish army and gained them the high ground.
Ms. Melissa Arena, RHIT, CHC, HIM Manager and Corporate Compliance Officer at St. Ann’s Community in Rochester, NY, was interviewed on December 7, 2015. The interview started with asking Ms. Arena if she could talk a little bit about herself and what her position is. She continued to say that her current position was her second career, she was a mortgage loan processor back in the 80’s and 90’s. Ms. Arena had gotten laid off from three separate mortgage companies before she realized she needed a different career and college career in order to be successful. Being a single mother of two early teenage girls, Ms. Arena was holding two part time jobs and doing the HIT program took her 5 years to complete as well as another year before she was able to feel comfortable to sit in for the exam. There was an interest in finding out how long she had been in her position and when asked, she stated that she was in Corporate Compliance Officer since 2011, as an HIM Manager since March of 2002 and by the SAC HIM Department since 2000 as a part time file clerk.
The radio program draws an overall picture of the subprime mortgage crisis, how the subprime market was created, how the crisis happened, what were the result and its impact. (See appendix A - my summary of the case)
The short text from Into Thin Air in chapter 8 by Jon Krakauer gives an overview of the shocks he has faced in 1996 climbing the Mt. Everest. At 21,000 feet, Jon Krakauer faces the dead body for the first time. This horrible experience left him shocked and mentally damaged for hours. At 21,300 feet, Jon Krakauer faces another dead body. However, this time, it wasn’t a big shock anymore, he had got used to it. At this point, Jon Krakauer realizes that all other climbers also takes this experience accustomed as if these bodies weren’t real. This text is about the author’s first experience of facing the fearful reality of the nature occurring upon humans and realizing how other climbers treat this so naturally. The author uses literary devices of simile and visual imagery to create fears.
The film I chose is “High Plains Drifter” directed by Clint Eastwood. The film talks about a stranger who arrives at a small town where he is informed by the sheriff of the return/comeback of three gun-toting men, now in jail for having killed the previous sheriff and he proposes him to stay and defend the citizens as he is very good at shooting. The stranger first refuses but after being guaranteed that he could have asked whatever he wanted in return, he accepts. His way of approaching goes immediately against the citizens who try to kill him. Meanwhile the stranger prepares everything to welcome the three men back but as soon as the three men come shooting, nobody reacts. The stranger manages to kill one of them by whipping him and after that, the other two men, finding themselves alone, get killed by the stranger. The day after the stranger departs and passes Mordecai (one of the citizen) who is working on the grave of the sheriff Duncan (the one who was killed by the three men) and comments that he still doesn’t know his name. The stranger replies that he is writing his brother’s name on that grave.
We were all encouraged to choke down as much food as possible. Any kind of energy was essential. A melancholy atmosphere hung heavy as the journey progressed. Minutes walking slowly progressed into hours, the sky seemed to darken steadily. All of us were oblivious to the danger shrouded by the dim evening. Only moments after scaling a rather steep ledge did nature dice to turn sour. A deafening rumble made each climber perk up. Snow began to descend at an alarming rate. Thunder began to mic the steady beating of a drum, causing more concern among the ranks of climbers. The powdery snow became more of a risk than ever, climbing under pressure and leaving nothing to stand on. Third base was more than three hours away. Three hours wasn't possible at the rate. Snowfall this bad could be detrimental to the climb’s success. Snow obscured vision and numbed faces. Shouts and orders deemed lost in the screaming wind; people’s figure became shapeless blurs frantically shifting, hoping if they struggled against the wind hard enough, they might find someone. Of course, this was to no avail. Not a single person doubted their demise would come at this point: the stakes were high and no-one could play too well against Mother Nature. The snow crept up to knee-level, making it harder and harder to travel. Death and I were face-to-face. To some, they couldn't bare the idea of dying up here; they had families and friends, children who need parents and
The Way to Rainy Mountain is a by N. Scott Momaday influential novel in today 's time, as it depicts the history of the Kiowa culture of how they came to be, their traditions and beliefs along with the truth of how their culture came to an abrupt end. As Momaday undergoes a journey to visit Rainy Mountain, he creates an identity for himself in the Kiowa culture that is portrayed through his use of memory, setting, and structure.
For years, the State of Nevada has found the Yucca Mountain project unacceptable because of the obvious logical and scientific issues that make the site itself unsafe. Additional support for their argument is that other than being far from the nuclear waste, the repository cannot really separate itself and its dangers from the environment and humans. Even though Nevada started with just being upset about the state having the political finger pointed at them to hold the whole nation’s nuclear waste but now their argument is stronger (Adams, 2010). Not only is Yucca Mountains’ size not big enough for the entire countries nuclear waste, but geologic factors could make the waste
Two noticeably famous people who have climbed the ruthless mountain Everest, Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmand Hillary, are possibly the best 2 climbers that have been around, and If I had to choose between the two, I would pick Norgay. When deciding between the two I had to think about several things, and one of them is the advantages of having both people with myself. Nonetheless, I concluded that they were both bold and that they were willing to do anything to go 29,000 feet. They were both someone who knew about the land, and knew what to do, and not what to do. “At that great moment for which I had waited all my life, my mountain did not seem to me a lifeless thing of rock and ice, but warm and friendly and loving.” (Norgay Page 42) Even
On the day of September 11, 1857, an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Turley.
There is no vanity on the AT (The Appalachian Trail) and more than some walk in the woods. Seems like it would be just an adventure. It started as a journey and a leap of faith to hike the entire Georgia section of the AT in less than 6 days. Day 4 it became a transformation. I saw less than 10 people hiking for 6 days and 90 miles. I hiked till 7pm each day (one hour prior to sunset) and wherever the spirit led me, I set up my tent, ate my food, journaled, slept and got up at 6 am in order to be back on the trail as soon as I could see it. Relentless steep climbs on all types of terrain and many painful descents that caused much knee pain. Several nights totally alone in the wilderness. Lots of praying and talking to God out loud.
On the eve of their encounter with Europeans, the Indians of Central and South America were prosperous and created complex societies. While being worlds apart both the Central and South American Indians and the Tribes of the Mississippi Valley had similar concepts while having a variety of differences. Both the Central and South American Indian and the Tribes of the Mississippi Valley had religion, economy and art although different from one another they share some of the same basic fundamental ideas.
Unexpectedly, May was the cruelest month. I thought the snowy.mountain tops where beginning to melt off. I was wrong, and May had other plans. At lower altitudes it was rain, but above 10,000 feet it fell in the form of sticky, wet, snow. Winter was mild, letting on that Colorado would be passable by late spring, it was a hoax. Hikers formed into parties and attempted to hike on, only to be forced by the snow to turn around. We sat in town for days, twiddling our thumbs and pitching ideas around. On the forth day we came up with a solution. We stuffed a minivan with seven hikers and seven backpacks and headed to Wyoming. Our plan was to hike south, back to Colorado, connect our footsteps.
Have you ever looked off a tall cliff? Now Imagine going 30 mile per hour on a bike with curvy roads with huge cliffs on your side with no rails. I left with my family from our hotel in Manitou springs, Colorado. From the hotel we drove to a bike tour place to take us up Pikes Peak. When we got the building we saw pictures of how big the cliffs were, but another thing scared me even more was the fact they had no side rails. When I saw that there were no side rails I was really excited as well as terrified. It was an odd mix of emotions, but I liked the adrenaline rush it gave me. My dad said to me, “ This is going to be freaky”.