Terry Tempest Williams Refuge

When the opportunity to attend the local Peteetneet Schoolhouse Museum transpired, many historical facts would be discovered. Upon arrival the large two story stone building resembled something from a pioneer movie. The museum guide quickly came to escort myself through the exhibit and shared her mass amount of information. The historical building housed the information of local Mormon settlers and the steady cultural clash between the Ute, Paiute and Navajo Indians. Along with interesting information and artifacts, the museum brought to life the struggles of early settler’s.

The book RISING FROM THE PLAINS (1986) talks about how the Rocky Mountains had developed in Wyoming, McPhee was accompanied by David Love during this book. It was the first of the books “Annals of the Formal World” that talked about the effects of human beings, and how it complicates science. The book concentrates on how different parts of geology directly affects

Cultural Data: During the mid to late 1800’s, the local Bear Lake area was becoming settled and established by Latter-day Saint

Traditionally the Western Shoshone Nation’s ancestral land covers an area spanning from southern California, clear through Nevada, and barely touching southern Idaho. Within this scope of land is the previously mentioned Yucca Mountain, but also Mount Tenabo, a mountain in the Cortez Range of Northern Nevada, which is currently subject to mining. This large area of land is know as the Great Basin, where the habitat is dependent on the rain and snow melt water which comes off the high mountains, feeding the creeks which keep the living, living. Mount Tenabo is one such mountain; however it also holds a place in Shoshone creation stories, and is the site of ancient burials causing it to be of great importance to the entire nation of the Western Shoshone. The people of the Western Shoshone Nation still use the mountain to gather medical plants from these sacred places of their ancestors, and hold ceremonies.

Terry Tempest Williams and Wangari Maathai are both very powerful women who devoted their lives to improving the world one step at a time. Williams, the author of Refuge, is a naturalist, a feminist, and a writer who brings such power into everything she touches. Her passion for change has brought so much goodness into the world. She has beat many obstacles, including her own struggle with herself, which to her is the same fight we have with nature, and finally accepting the outcome; whatever that may be unnatural, or natural, is the secret to life. While we read about what Terry Tempest Williams writes about her mother’s difficulties while struggling with cancer, we also have Wangari Maathai speaking about all the violence she faces in Kenya.

William’s analogy between civil society and a group of people aboard a ship eased the dynamics of his letter. By illustrating how his ideas of liberty would take place on a ship, Williams’s ideas seem more approachable rather than terrifying his audience by explain it with everyday details of society. Since everyone other than the Indians in the New World had lived on a ship for months, to arrive to the New World, Williams made this analogy relatable to everyone’s previous experiences. Williams’s analogy could have been unsuccessful because he did not illustrate clear margins for what daily life would look like with his ideas in

Around 650 A.D., the Mesa Verdean peoples initiated construction of apartment-style homes, termed by Spanish explorers as pueblos. The Puebloan architecture is original in that it utilized the local stone and mud deposits of the region to maintain the structural integrity of their burgeoning developments. As this community evolved into the twelfth century, Mesa Verdeans further integrated the geology of their environment into their lifestyles by building homes, known as cliff dwellings, within the naturally formed alcoves of Mesa Verde. By the thirteenth century, the Mesa Verdeans vacated this region due to severe droughts and subsequent social instability. Despite the later abandonment of their cliff dwellings, it is clear that the geology of Mesa Verde National Park impacted the lives of the Ancestral Puebloans significantly. The following sections provide detailed information regarding the rock formations that make up the geological

Geologically ‘almost’ centered in North America, Mandan Indians occupied “the heart of the world”, present day North Dakota, where the Heart River joins the Missouri River. They were once cradled prosperous human settlements, but Mandan Indians are only mentioned in History when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark spent the winter with them in 1804-1805**. Elizabeth A. Fenn took a trip to North Dakota in 2002, and she had an urge to write about Mandan Indians. For twelve years, she spent time to gather and learn every aspect that can bring Mandan Indians. She learned archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science, anything that could bring Mandan past. Winner

EARLY AMERICA If I were to be thrust back in time, I would prefer to live in the Aztec Empire rather than the Great Basin. I’ll first be discussing the pros and cons of the Great Basin culture then I'll discuss the pros and cons of the Aztec empire and why I would prefer to live in the great basin culture over the Aztec empire. Thе Grеat Basin is almost all of Utah and Nеvada.

When 43 year old director Elia Kazan was called to the stage in the House of Un-American Activities, he did something that would change his career forever. He testified as a “friendly witness” which resulted in hatred from many of his colleagues. In 1954, two years after his testimony, Kazan produced On the Waterfront. Being one of his most famous works, On the Waterfront was an instant success, winning an abundance of awards and solidifying Kazan as one of the best and most influential directors of the early film-making era. Terry Malloy, the movies main character, was a middle-aged shore man who was caught up with the wrong group of people, which resulted in him being part of a mob hit. Throughout this film, Malloy battled his own self-conscious about him being a part of the killing of Joey Doyle, all the while being in a relationship with Edie Doyle, Joey’s sister. Finally, Terry decides to speak at a court hearing and gives crucial information that pointed directly to the mob being guilty of the killing. At the end of the movie, Terry confronts Johnny Friendly, the mob leader, and goes to work after being severely beaten,

In Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge, death slowly claimed almost all of the women of her family. Death took Williams’ family members one by one just one or two years apart. In every case, the cause was cancer. Williams insisted in the epilogue that fall-out from the 1951-62 nuclear testing in Utah brought cancer to her family. Because there are many other causes of cancer, such as genetic and environmental factors, it is hard for one to insist that nuclear fall-out causes cancer. Therefore, it is important to find out how and why

Terry Tempest Williams titled her most notable work, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Land with the intent to mirror the main thematic question of the book: how is refuge found in the midst of overwhelming and life-consuming change? Williams dedicates her entire memoir to answering this complex and personal question, as she writes about her life and its complete unraveling during the extended death of her mother and the relentless rising of the Great Salt Lake. To Williams, the Great Salt Lake, its surrounding land, and the birds that inhabit it, along with her family, hold deep-rooted connections to her heritage and history, and because of this connection, she views the land and her family as a portion of her own identity. And so

American archaeologist and anthropologist, Stephen Plog, wrote an account of the pre-Columbian natives of the Americans titled Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. Plog’s purpose is to communicate the cultural and ritualistic lifestyles of the prehistoric natives of the southwest, which spans across the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada with some mention of trade with Mexico. The author has demonstrated an effective approach of an objective viewpoint on the lives of the prehistoric south westerners using sources from excursions from previous archaeologists such as, Paul S Martin and David R Wilcox among many others who excavated the vacant villages of the southwest.

The entrance of The Tempest into theatres between 1610 and 1611, signifies a possible correlation between Shakespeare's play and the colonization of the ideal New World. Before analyzing the courtly order and utopian theme in The Tempest, it is important to understand the politics and culture of the court in the early 17th century. The society that Shakespeare emerges from plays an important role in the themes portrayed in The Tempest, because it leads to the utopian solution to the political and class conflict.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, was both born and educated in Dublin Ireland; he was awarded the Noble Prize for literature in 1933. One of his most famous poems, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” was written early in his career as a poet. In the poem, Yeats takes the reader to a small island away from the chaos of everyday life, an island where the poet imagines he will go to live independently. The reader is transported, with the poet, to a place far away from schedules, deadlines, and stress. Yeats uses alliteration, end rhymes, and other poetic strategies to transport the reader to his imaginary getaway: the Isle of Innisfree.