The Greys: The New Mexico Desert

Long ago, the middle of the North American continent was a treeless prairie covered by tall grasses and roaming buffalo. When European settlers came, they called this area the Great American Desert. Today, this "desert" is covered with fields of wheat, corn, and alfalfa made possible by center-pivot irrigation. My grandfather used to sell center-pivot systems and when my family drove to my grandparent's home in Nebraska, we would count how many "sprinklers" were watering each section of land. At the time, I didn't know that this water was being pumped from somethng called the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground water supply. Throughout the years, this aquifer has made the Great American Desert one of the best farming

Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso 1880-1920 analyzes and discusses the Mexican immigrants to El Paso, Texas. The most western city of the vast state of Texas, a city in the edge of the Chihuahuan desert; a place too far away from many regions of the United States, but as Mario García explains a very important city during the development of the western United States. He begins explaining how El Paso’s proximity to different railroads coming from México and the United States converged there, which allowed El Paso to become an “instant city”, as mining, smelting, and ranching came to region. (García 2)

For this paper water structures and infrastructures were selected as focus points because the longer we wait to fix issues with them, the more expensive it will get, in other words, we are in a race against time. Studying the past it is easy to see how water availability made population explode in an area such as Southern California, where savvy marketing and great politics made it happen. Particularly, for Los Angeles and for the purposes of public narrative, Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert does a great job at understanding and identifying the politics and key figures in getting water to Los Angeles. Great hydrologic structures were created using both manpower and water politics. It is important to state that there are connections between water, politics, environment, and geography when analyzing what the biggest problems involving water structures and infrastructures (Reisner.) We must think of water as both a socio-political issue and a natural resource, whose fate is molded by the understanding of its connectivity to itself, man-made structures, geography, environment, and society. The classes taken in this program have taught us ideals that in order to become a great water resource manager, one must master the political and scientific knowledge to make decisions that are prosperous for society and the environment. Furthermore, one must know the United States’ hydrological history in order to gain manipulation upon the system that makes it both thrive and deteriorate.

In his book, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner’s main thesis is to show the inefficiency, greed, and inherent difficulty in the American West’s never-ending struggle to turn its unwelcoming desert into a lush garden. One of his main sub-points is that the West is not meant to support millions of people. It has a wide range of geographic challenges throughout the entire region. Its inconsistency and diversity is a primary cause of its water problems. For example, Reisner notes that the West consists of “plains so arid that they could barely support bunchgrass; deserts that were fiercely hot and fiercely cold; streams that flooded a few weeks each year and went dry the rest; forests with trees so large it might take days to bring one down; . . . hail followed by drought followed by hail;” (23).

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The Desert Southwest is a very interesting place for non natives. It is a very hot place it can get up to 140 degrees which is normal for the deseret but an night it's a different story it can lower to about 30 degrees that is 2 degrees lower than freezing point. That is like a huge freezer and the sand can get cold under the about 4-5 inches it is also traditional to to speak their language apachean it was mostley spoken by the natives.

They do not fully know about the oppression they are under as they have never known anything else. Born and raised under the total influence of their government, they do not know anything outside the treatment they have always been given. Even if the community did know about outside governance forms, they would be focused primarily on surviving, not on rebelling. Oppressive societies such as this one, where careers, thoughts, feelings, and lives are simply assigned, breed fear and complete dependency on the government. Such is the goal of this society; to have complete and total dominance and control over all its subjects, without question or

Have you ever wondered how landmarks like the “The Tepees” in the Painted Desert of Arizona came to be? Erosion and weathering are the main culprits behind the creation of these unique and beautiful attractions. The mechanical and chemical procedure that modify objects on Earth’s surface over time are called weathering. Erosion is the method of taking weathered material from one region to another. Weathering is the breaking down of rock, soil, and minerals. Erosion is the development of being eroded by wind, water, or other natural causes. Weathering is grinding out of man-made or natural landforms. Erosion is the weathering out of surface soil and rock worn way through natural causes like water and wind for example.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is about a young woman named Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery and gave birth to a daughter named Pearl. As a punishment, Hester has to wear a cloth with a scarlet letter ‘A’ on her chest that stands for ‘Adulteress’ for all her lifetime. Meanwhile, Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has been missing for two years come back and decides to take a revenge on Hester’s lover. Throughout the novel, Chillingworth has discovered that a young minister named Dimmesdale is a Hester’s lover. Dimmesdale is the worst sinner than Chillingworth because Dimmesdale doesn’t have moral, he is a coward that decides to keep his secret, and he doesn’t have responsibility.

The native americans had many things that helped them survive today,you will learn about the desert regions

In August 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's world was shattered. While at his retreat at Campobello, he was hit with a case of polio that left him paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life ("Franklin Roosevelt"). He was hit with what one would call a major setback, but which he turned into a minor setback before an astonishing presidency. Such an event did not make him a lesser man, it made him a better man and a stronger president. Roosevelt took on the task of being the President of the United States during one of the greatest economic crises' in the world. Despite being disabled, he guided the United States out of the endless black hole that they were in. Perseverance was the characteristic that enabled FDR to overcome extreme

The Dust Bowl in the 1930s, took the lives of over seven thousand people throughout the Western United States and parts of Canada (“Dust”). People claimed they could tell where the dust came from by the color of the dust cloud that came through. The dust from Colorado was known to be grey (“Handy”). Almost ninety years later, the Western United States citizens are still affected by droughts today. Not affected directly, the people who live in and near the Colorado Plateau are affected through their water resources. Water is naturally filtered by plant’s roots. Droughts cause plants to dry up and thus they filter less water. With the dominant plants drying up and thinning out, that makes more room for exotic plants to start growing. More and

The fragile ecological existence of the U.S. Southwest is complicated by the presence of endangered migratory species who naturally move across our borders, including gray wolves and jaguars. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 entrenched social rules regarding immigration and border security installed through the Illegal Immigration Act and Immigrant Responsibility Act. This and the Real ID Act allow border patrol to further diminish chances of survival for endangered species, by granting waivers of the Endangered Species Act and NEPA, in order to secure our borders. This is an analysis of the complex social needs coinciding with decisions regarding border activity along the U.S.-Mexico border, specifically the Arizona portion

For just a brief moment, imagine yourself sometime in the future. You have been recently married, you just started a brand new job, and are looking to start a family. As a way to plan for financial security, you have done some research into financial investments. You are hoping to build a portfolio, which will be a mix of low, median, and high-risk stock. Flash forward into the future by 20 years. During this time, the stock prices have appreciated and depreciated, yet overall done remarkably well. All of a sudden, one morning you wake up to some disastrous news. One of the company’s you invested in, which held a majority of the portfolio of stock, has been participating in financial fraud. While they had been presenting themselves well, under the surface deceptive accounting and financial practices were being used and now the company is broke. All of your hard earned money which was invested in that company is now gone-down to the last penny. Does this sound vaguely familiar? It should. In 2001, Enron, a United States company, became the very largest bankruptcy and stock collapse in history (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). As a result, in 2002, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed as means to prevent fraud, improve financial reporting, and gain back the trust that was previously lost by investors. Although numerous publicly traded companies, which are companies registered on the U.S. stock exchange, were less than happy to welcome

I am sure that everyone of you have heard about aliens and UFOs. Indeed, we all have heard about the famous case of aliens and UFOs in Roswell, New Mexico. Most people might be interested in the topic of aliens, but I know that the majority of you just think of it as rumours and the existence of them are impossible. Therefore, I am standing here in front all of you to make you change your perspective. I am strongly confident that I have found the evidence of their real existence to convince all of you.