Yosemite National Park is a national park located in Northern California. The park goes across three counties which include Madera‚ Tuolumne‚ and Mariposa. This park covers over 700‚000 acres of land. It is known for reaching the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This park is very popular millions of people visit every year. I will be talking about Yosemite’s climate‚ geography‚ wildlife‚ history‚ and activities one can do at the park. Yosemite is rich in history. Let me start off by
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There are many species of plants and animals in Yosemite including 400 species of vertebrates. Yosemite is home to only two species of endangered animals‚ the desert Bighorn Sheep and the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog. The black bear is the largest mammal in the park‚ but rodents make up the most of the mammals in the park. There are 22 species of reptiles in the park 1 Turtle‚ 1 Skink‚ 7 Lizards‚ and 13 Snakes. The diminutive Pacific Treefrog is Yosemite’s most common frog species. The Sierra
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and I went to Yosemite National Park. Yosemite is one of the greatest parks in the country with many beautiful sightings. It was established‚ to protect the land on October 1‚ 1890. Yosemite sits in the gorgeous state of California. We loved going to Yosemite National Park to enjoy our lives. According to the establisher of this park‚ John Muir‚ “It is by far the grandest of all the special temples of nature I was permitted to.” I asked the park ranger how many acres of land is Yosemite made of. He
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in hard work‚ while also hinting at the nature of racial poverty and class. Some murals also attempted to spread light on the conditions or mental strain that jobs bring to bring awareness and appreciation. The fifth photo‚ labeled as the Tennessee Valley Authority by Xavier Gonzalez‚ depicts a group of 2 men and 3 women‚ with one woman holding an infant. All of the adults are working in some form or shape‚ showing cultivators and metal workers. The name of the piece pays direct homage
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was I supposed to feel? Lost maybe? How was I supposed to cope with a decision I knew I wasn’t a part of. The sound of the rolling tires against the highway asphalt fused with the sound of the humming from the car engine. I had just spent a week in Yosemite as part of an 8th grade trip and had come back to realize that my parents had bought a brand new house. It was all excitement and happy smiles until my dad told me the location of this new house... “Fremont.” The words rebounded off the walls inside
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Rockfalls are a very dangerous phenomenon. In class we learned that anything that is not at a 30 degree angle or less is unstable‚ and will tend to fall. This is how rocks and any type of earth falls. At the Yosemite National park‚ there is a crack in a cliff that measures 19 meters long‚ that is a little over 62 feet long. This crack fluctuates in width by about a centimeter from day to day. The widest the crack ever has gotten is 12 centimeters. Scientist can measure this width by using a device
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its way‚ including people’s lives. Let us take a look at one of the most devastating wildfires in California’s History‚ The Yosemite Rim Fire. This massive fire started on August 17‚ 2013‚ Took nearly a full 9 weeks of fire fighters fighting to get the fire fully contained. Nearly costing $127.35 million just in the fight against this devastating wildfire.The size of the Yosemite Rim Fire was nearly 257‚314 acres. A total of eleven homes‚ three commercial structures‚ and 98 outbuildings were destroyed
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SSCI 110 November 2011 Yosemite Introduction Yosemite National Park is without a doubt‚ one of America’s most beautiful and well-known parks. Due to the diversity of attractions the park offers‚ including high Sierra Peaks‚ the highest highway pass in California called the Tioga Pass‚ the Yosemite Valley‚ the Merced River‚ acres of high altitude backcountry‚ waterfalls‚ and some of the largest living things on earth in the sequoia groves tourists from all over the world visit. The most
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Jaffe‚ Sarah. "Trickle-down feminism." Dissent 60.1 (2013): 24+. Academic OneFile. Web. 17 July 2013. Sarah Jaffe‚ the author of this article‚ was the former labor editor at Alternet. She has written many pieces about the economy‚social movements and organizing. This tittle of the‚ “Trickle Down Feminism”‚ is a term derived from the unsuccessful economic “trickle down” theory. In which the theory stated giving tax cuts to the bourgeoisie would eventually benefit the lower class by providing more
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Imagine cycling on a hot day in June with a low water supply. A cyclist took advice from a few elders and took a shortcut on his trip to Yosemite Park‚ not knowing the predicament it would bring him too or how the area would affect him. The setting affects the cyclist by causing dehydration‚ having unfamiliar surroundings‚ and thinking negatively. For instance‚ dehydration had the most extensive impact on the cyclist. The cyclist would drink little amounts of water at a time to conserve the small
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