miner‚ can seem like a dystopia. In the text “Klondike Gold Rush” ‚ the author describes a plot of ambitious miners baring treacherous conditions only for a chance to strike fortune. From a conflicting viewpoint ‚ the passage “A Woman Who Went to Alaska” by May Kellogg Sullivan shares a slightly different view‚ considering the miners got the pleasure of coming across a property of riches but only to have their riches stolen from their grasp by the government. Going over these excerpts I can gather
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The opposition of the Trans-Alaska pipeline did their best to keep the pipeline from becoming established but their efforts where in vain. With oil prices high‚ and so much support coming from Washington and the lower 48 states‚ it wasn’t long until the pipeline was constructed. However‚ the opposition would get another change to argue their points. In the spring of 1989‚ the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled its precious cargo in the Prince William Sound after it struck a reef‚ spilling between 11
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In the article “There is no theory of Everything”‚ the author‚ Simon Critchley‚ wrote about how some teachers are unappreciated and unacknowledged by the world‚ and his opinions on philosophy. Through vocab and structure‚ the author of any article can portray different tones‚ setting contrasting moods to the reader. Critchley’s tone throughout his article was motivational in a way‚ while being opinionated and informative. He wrote different lengths in paragraphs to get his points across and used
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“Looking For Alaska” By John Green. Dutton Books. Fiction. This book is all about the story of Miles “Pudge” Halter‚ a gawky‚ intelligent teen who has a major obsession with famous last words. In search of what Pudge refers to as “a great perhaps‚” he makes new friends‚ enemies and discovers himself. Before Pudge’s adventure at Culver Creek Boarding School began‚ Pudge was just a typical nerd living in a small town in Florida. His studies were most important and he loved reading biographies.
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The Norton Simon Museum My recent visit to the Norton Simon Museum was very different than any previous experience I have had with modern art. With only a semester’s worth of knowledge under my belt‚ I was most definitely in awe‚ and thoroughly entertained‚ to say the least. Although inspired by many‚ I chose to analyze two works with very similar subject matter‚ by two German Expressionist artists. I compared a piece entitled‚ "Bathing Girls"‚ painted by Franz Marc‚ to the similarly titled "Bathers
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Alaska is a state where they can have two extremities either extremely dry and cold or extremely moist and hot. Over the years Alaska’s climate has been doing anything but the norm. Wildfires during the summer have been an issue in Alaska; just last year hundreds of fires had burned over 5 million acres of the state’s land. It doesn’t necessarily get a lot of news attention because it’s a problem far away from civilization‚ but the smoke travels far and it plays a part in the global warming issue
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change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end‚ and so it cannot fail.” John Green‚ Looking for Alaska. This is when Miles realizes and decides how he can accurately explain his friends and how he learns to understand Alaska’s behavior especially. In a way‚ he is somehow describing
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Looking For Alaska vs. The Catcher in the Rye Many parallels can be drawn between the main protagonists in John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. Although these two coming of age novels differ greatly in setting and in circumstance‚ many of the broader‚ more fundamental themes in each are actually quite similar. John Green was very much influenced by J.D. Salinger‚ and even admitted that Miles "Pudge" Halter in Looking For Alaska‚ was based largely off of Holden
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Alaska Airlines ran its business satisfied with complacency and dependent on customer loyalty and goodwill (Avolio‚ Patterson‚ & Baker‚ 2015). While Alaska Airlines was thinking the business could sustain this practice‚ many changes were occurring that would have a ripple effect and adversely affect the airline (Avolio‚ et al.‚ 2015). One executive stated it started as far back to 1999 when the airline was succeeding despite themselves due to fortuitous fuel costs and a good economy” (Avolio
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enemies of republican revolutions. But from the British point of view in circa 1820‚ to drive the Spanish out of America promised to open vast territories for English commerce in the Atlantic that the Spanish for centuries had tried to restrict.”( Simon Bolivar: The Liberator‚ 2000) Boliver deserves every bit of his title as a national. While he may have not been able to fully liberate all of Latin America and abolish slavery completely as he intended‚ the fire that he ignited from his attempts has
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