Yosemite

Have you ever wanted to see what a Lava bed Looks like, Well I do there is a park that is called Yosemite national park that has a monument of a lava bed the park has 130,000 visitors each year the lava bed is what attracts about 4 million people annually. There was once a President that was named Calvin Coolidge that declared the lava beds a national monument in 1925 the landscape in the park was covered in lava. All of the underground caves and lava tubes were formed by the lava eruption

with vehicular traffic have caused the Yosemite National Park administration to wonder how it can still allow visitors to enjoy the exuberance of the park, but, at the same time, preserve the habitat of the more popular

of my junior year was terrible. My family decided to drag me onto another family road trip. This year, our family vacation was at Yosemite National Park. "Are we there yet?" I whined. "Two more hours" my dad stated. Three hours in and two more to go. These five hours were the unbearable and honestly, it could not get worse than this. Setting my foot down on Yosemite was relieving, however things continued to get even more horrendous than expected. The National Park

El Capitan When you enter the valley, the first thing you probably notice after all of the people is the great granite giant rising up from the meadow and riverbank of the Merced River. This monster is known as El Capitan, my first introduction to this “rock” was when The Guide told me a story about Ozzy and Sharon Osborne’s kid, Jack. Apparently, his idea of going through a rebellious period, and seriously, as the kid of the front man of Black Sabbath, how do you even define rebellion, was to train

Thomas Hill, the artist of Yosemite valley ( El Capitan and Bridal Viel [sic] falls), was born in Birmingham England, where he lived for many years before migrating to the United States with his family and settling in Taunton, Massachusetts. At that time, Hill earned a living by painting carriers and soon after that he became an apprentice at an interior decorating firm. Hill attended art school at the Pennsylvania Academy of Design, and wanted to become a history painter. As a student, he made several

1000 years? Both of these facts are true in Yosemite National Park. Yosemite National Park is Located in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. It is accessible by driving, but GPS units are not always accurate for getting to Yosemite or when you’re in the park. Nearby commercial airports are the Modesto City Airport, Fresno-Yosemite Airport, and Merced Airport. Bus service is available in the park to get to most areas including Yosemite Valley. It comes from most areas of California

Yosemite National Park is truly one of America’s greatest gems. Its beauty and majesty have been formed over hundreds of millions of years through numerous geological events and processes. Yosemite has long been a popular topic for research for geologists, as the geological processes that formed it are of great interest. Yosemite has an interesting geological history, as many different processes are responsible for its features today. About 500 million years ago, the Pacific plate started to subduct

The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform that grew from the 1890s to the 1920s. Social reformers and journalists, like Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, and Ida Tarbell were some of the powerful voices for progressivism. “They concentrated on exposing the evils of corporate greed, combating fear of immigrants, and urging Americans to think hard about what democracy meant.” Many progressive reformers wanted to end corruption in the government, regulate business practices, address

have preserved the environment so today the same beauty can be see the way that they saw it. John Muir was involved in many American conservation efforts including the co-founding of Yosemite National Park, founding of the Sierra Club, and his overall career as a

Point, Yosemite” captures a time and place in such a way that even a century after the image’s creation, students of visual studies can still use it to better understand how and where an image develops its meaning. The image “Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Glacier Point, Yosemite” features the President and