The Nautilus Magnificent Journey

The Polar Express is a classic children’s Christmas story written by acclaimed author Chris Von Allsburg. Chris Von Allsburg writes and illustrates all of his books and won the Caldecott medal for The Polar Express. The Polar Express is a Christmas story of getting a kid to believe in Santa. The boy climbs aboard a train to go to the North Pole to see Santa. He is the one chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas, which was a silver bell off of the reindeers. He cannot hear it at first, but then he finally lets himself believe in Santa and can hear the bell for the rest of his life. The movie The Polar Express is the only adaptation that has been made from the

My research travel expedition is too Port St. Joe, Florida. With a budget of five thousand dollars and fourteen days, I could travel to, and stay in relative comfort and be within easy travel to the numerous location needed to try to find out what really happened to Old and New Iola.

Endurance is a novel that explains the giant failure of a trans-Antarctic expedition. The entire operation was led by bold and brave man by the name of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The purpose of the expedition was to attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in the year 1914. It was an outrageous and at some points, a hopeless struggle for survival for Shackleton and his crew. He had a crew of twenty-eight strong and noble men, which were resilient and determined on this journey, of about two years. The book’s title, Endurance, is also the ship Shackleton and his crew used on the expedition. The ship was unfortunately crushed by the ice very early in the men’s journey, leaving them stranded on drifting ice, for about a year, but that was just the beginning.

When you hear the names Lewis and Clark, you think of the legendary people who first discovered the midwest, but they did more than that. They opened the door to infinite possibilities and are responsible for the world as we know it today. This paper will be discussing what challenges they faced and how it impacted the United States. Lewis and Clark faced many challenges on their expedition, including bad weather, possible animal attacks and encounters with Indians, but in the end, Lewis and Clark were able to map out much of the west and the Pacific Ocean area and even discovered new animals and plants.

President Thomas Jefferson had long considered a western expedition and the Louisiana Purchase increased the need for such an exploration and survey of the west . The main body of explorers, known as the Corps of Discoverers, was led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and his associate in command William Clark. Assembling the individuals to make up the Corps of Discoverers would prove to be less daunting than the hardships and challenges they would endure on their westward journey.

After acquiring the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the United States President Thomas Jefferson planned for expeditions in the new land. The land bought was huge and unknown for the Americans. Soon many Americans were going to live on this land so they had to know well the territory. For the expedition, Thomas Jefferson asked two former soldiers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the west of North America. The president asked them to take notes of the soil, plants, animals and American Indians tribes they would find during the trip. He also wanted them to look after locations for trading posts and settlements.

By using phrases such as, “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscle and arteries beneath” and “cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb convulsed. The imagery creates a picture of the beast awakening and its introduction into life and shows Victor’s state of dismay and terror as he deals with the reality he has just created for himself. It helps set the horrific tone and disturbing setting where Victor’s world has started to turn into a terrifying nightmare and his life is at the start of its downward spiral into complete

The Monster is struggling to find his identity. He is trying to figure out if he is like Adam made upon this earth for a purpose or like Satan expelled from the “almighty kingdom”— in his case society. The Monster’s reading of

Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything. The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems no longer worth wearing. She sought him

Lewis and Clark are two names forever linked. These two names, the last names of

When the monster returns, he learns of the family’s sudden plans to move away. With no other direction, the monster seeks out answers from his creator. He comes across Victor’s papers, which reveal his identity and residence. With his newfound information, the monster decides to find his way to Victor. Throughout his journey his curiosity begins to turn into hatred and rage towards his creator. As he treks across the continent he discloses, “the spirit of revenge is enkindled in my heart” (119). This shows the monster’s capability of harboring dark emotions; it shows his benevolence quickly slipping away.

Through the “back doors of the dark dripping gardens” to the “dark odorous stables” he would travel. This was the extent of his life. He did not expect much of the world and his simple world expected little of him. The narrator inhabits this world of darkness where everything is understood to be the way it appears.

Sacagawea was born in 1788, in what is now known as Idaho, as the daughter of the Chief of the Shoshone Tribe. She led a drudgery early life and experienced many hardships. Sacagawea was part of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Expedition in 1805. She traveled the northern plains through the Rocky Mountains and to the Pacific Ocean and back. Sacagawea was a native american girl who was taken to slavery at a young age and then went on to be remembered as a great women.

The creature’s fascination with learning distorts his way of the thinking. As soon as Victor brought life to his creation, he was filled with regret. Victor abandons the creature out of fear and nothing is heard of it until they cross paths. The creature tells Victor about “distinguishing [his] sensations from each other,” and how “[he] began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded [him]…”(71,72). The creature’s curiosity proved to be the central idea in his mind. All he wanted to was figure out the world he was brought into. This yearning to learn

Ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl became known to the world when he organized and led the famous Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947. Documentaries, Newspaper, Movies, and Novels have all been written about this expedition. Through these sources we have different ways shown of the expedition, but what do they have in common? Through our there three sources (Novel; 1951 Documentary; 2013 Movie), they all talk about how Heyerdahl had developed his theory. In 1937 Heyerdahl had moved to Polynesia to live a year on Fatu Hiva.