Mount Purgatory Research Paper

Mount rushmore is an amazing site weather in person or on line, because of this they get more than 3 million visitors a year. Some interesting facts are that it took 14 years to build. Also 400 men worked on this project. The project costed the U.S 1 million dollars. Over 90 percent was carved using dynamite, details were finished with jack hammers and hand chisels.

The Mountain meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain meadows in southern utah. The attacks began on september 7 and culminated on September 11, 1857, resulting in the mass slaughter of the emigrant party by members of the Utah Territorial Militia from the Iron County district, together with some paiute native americans. The militia, officially called the Nauvoo, was composed of southern Utah's mormon settlers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). Intending to leave no witnesses and thus prevent reprisals, the perpetrators killed all the adults and older children-about 120 men, women, and children in total. Seventeen children, all younger than seven were spared.

The first recorded person in history to ascend Mt Druitt, an area in the relegated public squalor of Western Sydney, has also successfully reached the summit.

For my place narrative assignment, I chose to focus on a place that I not only visit frequently, but truly appreciate: Mount Douglas. This is a place I value not only for its beauty, but for the calmness it allows me to experience as a result of being part of nature. As it turns out, this has been the location of many important histories, dating back hundreds of years, and is still making history today. This history is significant both ecologically, and culturally, and is something I have enjoyed learning about. Through researching this place, and its surrounding area I have come to learn its importance branches far greater than its importance to me.

May 18, 1980 was a day that dawned sunny and beautiful. Mt. St. Helens stood out beautifully against the blue sky. The mountain had been rumbling quite a bit the past few days, and geologists were watching it carefully and monitoring vibrations. There had been a series of earthquakes from around March 12, up until present day. Over 170 earthquakes hit that were higher that 2.5 on the Richter scale in that short period of time. The earth shook with an earthquake that hit 5.0 on the Richter scale, at around 8:32 in the morning. That did it. Mount St. Helens blew apart with the force of over 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb. The lateral blast traveled at over 300 miles an hour, and destroyed 230 square miles of forest in just 3 minutes.

To me, Mount Wachusett Community College represents the ability for me to take on more challenging educational goals. College education is a privilege for me to have an opportunity to take advantage of means the future to me. Some may see it as the credits earned towards their 4-year college, but for me it means so much more than credits. It has provided me for an immense resource for learning and experimenting with topics I have an interest on. The professors are there to inspire me, helping me find my passion and myself. People will go out of their way to show you something and not in just a textbook, but in a real way. College has been introductions into how I can shape my future not just feel that my future solely belongs to my destiny. It is the first time in my life where I can have it my way and know that the work I have put in will be rewarding in fulfilling my future to come.

Mount Redoubt is an active volcano. A volcano is an opening on the surface of the Earth letting the hotter material inside escape the mountain or hill. (Magma or Lava) When that magma escapes, the mountain creates an explosion. If a volcano has erupted in the last 10,000 years then it is still considered an active volcano.

Mount Rainer is the 5th National park. This National park was established by an act of congress in 1899. This mountain was set aside to “protect areas of outstanding scenic and scientific value for the enjoyment of present and future generations”. In 1988, 97% of Mount Rainer was designated as wilderness.

There are many reasons for memorializing a person or creating a monuments have to fit in a certain factors whether that be to remember people that gave their lives or people that made the world better by changing history. There is the large monument in South Dakota Peak of Crazy Horse and it is close to Mount Rushmore in Rapid city that represents powerful people for two different cultures. There was a holocaust museum made in the National Park Mall that was for the remembrance for those who died in the holocaust. The Lincoln memorial was made to represent something more than President Lincoln to remember how he changed history for the better. Memorializing is what we use to remember those changed the world for good, those who were on the right

The first sign of Mt. St. Helen exploding was a landslide starting at the rim of the summit crater. In 15 seconds, the north side of Mt. St. Helen was making its way down the side of the volcano. After the entire north side had collapsed superheated gasses and lava were released in a massive lateral explosion. This abrupt release of pressure created a nuees arfentes, “which is (in a volcanic eruption) a swiftly flowing, dense cloud of hot gases, ashes, and lava fragments.”1. The nuees arfentes wiped everything within 8 miles almost instantly. The shockwave rolled over the forest for 19 more miles forcing almost all of the centuries old trees to fall towards the north. After those 27 miles the trees remained upright but were burnt to death.

In far Northern California, about forty miles south of the Oregon-California border, resides the second highest mountain in the Cascade Range and the fifth highest mountain in California. The Cascades are part of the “Ring of Fire,” which is a ring of volcanoes and earthquake sites, around the borders of the Pacific Ocean. Mount Shasta can be seen for several hundred miles and has struck viewers with its remarkable beauty since it was first seen. Mount Shasta towers at 14,162 feet, remains snow-capped throughout the year and is often shrouded in oddly shaped lenticular clouds, or fierce storms that hide it from view. It is awe-inspiring in its geography and geology,

Mount Rushmore is one of the biggest international monuments. Mount Rushmore, when it was started, was supposed to represent the time period from 1777 to 1927. Mount Rushmore is one of the most vacationed monument in America. Mount Rushmore and the surrounding area are one of the most beautiful monuments in America.

Mount Tambora is known as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in history. It is recognized to have one of the most hazardous eruptions, the 1816 eruption, with the death toll of 72,000 and more people.

In the years before the fall of Greece, the population was rapidly declining, so the gods met on Mt. Olympus to try and work towards a solution. While on Mt. Olympus they get into a heated debate on what to do. One side says that they should just give up and kill them but the other says bring them up to Mt. Olympus.

Finally, there’s this place called Purgatory. Many people have heard of it but don’t really appreciate its significance in the afterlife spectrum. It’s main purpose is to harbor souls of people who didn’t really use their life to the full extent, or didn’t do anything good or bad enough to deserve Heaven or Hell. For a while, souls roamed free there because there was no overall figure of authority. Connor and Sydney both agreed this needed to change, so they created Anna. Anna was meant to be a calm and collected leader who never tired of watching after boring souls, but neither of them contributed to that happening. The angels tell me Sydney heard of the plan to give Purgatory a leader and forced Connor to allow her to help. Though God didn’t