My Fathers Journey To America. The plane was taking off. Gravity pulled me lean on the back of the seat. Seeing the trees‚ roads‚ cars and buildings became more and more blurry in my sight‚ I felt my brain was blank. "Hey‚ I’m really going to leave tomorrow…" I called my best friend the night before I left. "Don’t forget to swim across the Pacific Ocean to visit me." She said after the long silence. Yes‚ for me at that time‚ America was truly just Hollywood and Disneyland on the other side of
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Banff National Park is Canada’s oldest national park‚ established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains. Banff is the third-oldest national park in the world. In 1883‚ three railway workers‚ Thomas McCardell‚ William McCardell and Frank McCabe discovered a number of hot springs (now known as cave and basin) at the base of what is now called Sulphur Mountain. The park started as a 25 square kilometers (10 square mile) reserve around the Sulphur Mountain Hot Springs‚ established by the Dominion of Canada
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Hills (“Wind Cave National Park”)‚ Wind Cave National Park protects two worlds- one underground and one aboveground‚ sunlit environment. This park showcases a variety of wildlife and is home to one of the world’s longest and oldest caves. The “mission of Wind Cave National Park is to reserve and protect the natural resources” it encompasses ("A Brief History of Wind Cave National Park"). In 1903‚ then President Theodore Roosevelt declared Wind Cave become the 8th national park in the U.S. The newly
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Mining in Kakadu National Park’ This report will explain the impact of mining in Kakadu National park and what effect it has on such topics as marine life‚ flora and fauna‚ tourism‚ climate and the history of Kakadu National Park. Map of Kakadu National Park History The name Kakadu comes from the mispronunciation of ‘Gagadju’ which is the traditional name of an Aboriginal language spoken in the northern part of the Park. Aboriginals have continuously populated Kakadu National Park for the past
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learn more about the areas that I adore the most. The Great Smoky Mountains Nation Park is one of those places. The park is a chain of preserved land that stretches from Gatlinburg‚ Tennessee to Cherokee‚ North Carolina‚ along Highway 441. In the midst of reading Dorie: Woman of the Mountains by Florence C. Bush‚ I was interested to learn that Dorie grew up in what is known today as The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. To dig deeper into the topic‚ I found a photograph of a town called Elkmont and
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This was to gain support in creating a national park in the state of Hawaii. January 20‚ 1916 was the date of the fourth and final draft of the Hawaii National Park bill; this was introduced by Jonah Kuhio. The committees met and on April 17 the House approved the bill. Then the Senate followed and on August 1‚ 1916; our president at the time President Wilson signed the bill into law and created the twelfth National Park. It wasn’t until five years later that a group of people
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Hurricanes on National Parks America’s coastal national parks are some of its most beautiful‚ but also some of its most vulnerable. Throughout the years‚ hurricanes have wreaked havoc on many of these prized regions. They can leave behind numerous kinds of destruction in their wake. Wildlife populations can be damaged‚ as well as important parts of the parks ecosystem. Hurricanes can also damage the man made utilities and recreational areas of the parks. These issues impact the national parks not only
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Wow… I’m at Yellowstone National Park‚ which was the first national park that was established on March 1‚ 1872‚ by the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act. I can see why Congress thought to establish this park since they hired a professional artist to go and see where they were “helping to save Yellowstone from private development.” As they say in the official National Park Service website‚ "Jackson’s photographs‚ Moran’s paintings‚ and Elliot’s sketches-had caught the imagination of Congress
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Skiing Adventure Allison Fickey ENG 101 Instructor Everett Reed 1 February 2014 The memory of Allison’s first Ski Trip to Snowshoe with her boyfriend‚ Dillon and his family still remained some of her best memories. Preparing their ski equipment seemed just like trying to get a very hyper ADD child to focus. The weather had already picked up‚ and it was hard to pull through the already freezing mess. But the time they spent skiing on the cold mountain slopes
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Big Bend National Park Report 1. What is the depositional nature of the rocks in the study area and how does their lithologic compositions and sedimentary structures record changing water depths‚ environments of deposition‚ and paleogeography? Big bend national park has complex rocks that are subsided in two seas hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossil data from the mid to Upper Cretaceous period predicts the sequence of rock strata in Big Bend National Park to be from bottom to top: limestone
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