Alaska Panhandle

Introduction Wilson’s Bakery is a friendly café business that serves great products located in Alaska. Since the climate area is usually cold, some of the products will consist of hot herbal tea, variety pastries, soups, etc. The objective of this company is to build a strong market niche in the suburban development because there is minimum experience within the market area. Presently, the area has some restaurants and a few bakery cafés. Wilson’s Bakery will serve all its customers lower, middle

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future (Krakauer, pp. 56-57). This quote by Jon Krakauer symbolizes the countless people that were either terrified or apathetic to invest against their comfort

Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl allows Harriet Jacobs, speaking through the narrator, Linda Brent, to reveal her reasons for making public her personal story of enslavement, degradation, and sexual exploitation. Although originally ignored by critics, who often dismissed Jacobs ' story as a fictional account of slavery, today it is reported as the first novel narrative by an ex-slave that reveals the unique brutalities inflicted on enslaved women. Gabby Reyes Am. History Dr

Siddhartha VS. McCandless Every teenager and young adult wants, at least to some degree, to go out and discover themselves. For some people, that means going on extreme adventures of self-discovery. Two such men that go on these types of adventures are Siddhartha and Chris McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp). While one is fictional and one entirely real, their stories are both very eye opening when it comes to the topic of really living and finding yourself, and the way that these two men did

Is developing the Arctic for oil and natural gas worth the powerful negative impact on the environment and native communities? The article published on September 20th, 2013 by Jennifer Weeks titled, “Future of the Arctic” examines the Arctic and the controversies within it. In the pro/con section of her article, Weeks asks the question, “Should the United States suspend Arctic offshore drilling?” Senator Mark Begich argues that the resources in the Arctic are too great of an opportunity to miss out

plain crazy,” however there is no hard evidence that proves this statement or completely backs it up. Callarman says "I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness. He made a lot of mistakes based on ignorance. I don’t admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy." This statement says that he is ignorant and yes

courier company by which you are sending your shipments. Alaska can be a challenging place to move freight. With a total area of 591,004 square miles, you need a company that knows the ins and outs of Alaska. Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas, the next largest state, and occupies 16% of the total US land area; the e-w extension is 2,261 mi (3,639 km); the maximum n-s extension is 1,420 mi (2,285 km). With the lack of highways in Alaska most shipments go by air or sea. There is no railroad

Nabeela Mian Mrs. Cohen American Literature, E Block September 8, 2014 Of Nature, The Liberating Destroyer (Question 2) In both Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, nature is paradoxically symbolized as both a liberator and a destroyer- intellectual maturation and hubris- through the “awakenings” of Edna Pontellier and Chris McCandless. The ocean, represented in Chopin’s novel, underscores liberation through nonconformity and independence, but also

within the family once Cristopher has got graduated. The importance of life, from the sight of his parents, is linked to material possessions and public display. Once the protagonist leaves all his past behind heading for adventures on his way to Alaska, there is another palatal conversation with one of his coworkers that clearly highlights this point: “why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often”. This awareness about the hypocrisy and spotlighting the superficiality

This country claims to have a democratic government, but that’s not the case. We are supposed to derive our votes from the people, the citizens. Yet, the people who decide who gets to be president are the electoral college. The electoral college consists people who represent about 500,000 people in their state. Some states don’t have much of a population so it was guaranteed that each state will get at least three electoral votes. Two being the senators each state has and one being a representative