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“The River” by John McPhee tells the story of a raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The two leaders of this expedition are David Brower and Floyd Dominy, who are considered to be two of the biggest rivals and influential people in conservation history. David Brower was the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Brower was a huge conversationalist and was very passionate about protecting natural landscapes from human destruction. Floyd Dominy was the commissioner of

Research for The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman's nationally successful play, began one month after a horrific crime occurred in Laramie, Wyoming. Members of Kaufman's theatrical group, Tectonic Theater Project, travelled to the open ranges of the West in order to gather in-person interviews from Laramie's populace. The purpose was to capture the emotions, reflections, and reactions of the people who were most closely and personally associated to the crime—the brutal beating and subsequent death

life without stepping out of your comfort zone. Now is a time when I am forced to step out of my comfort zone and face a fear of mine. Tomorrow my family and I are boarding a plane that is taking us to Denver, Colorado. We are then driving up to Wyoming, then to Montana, next South Dakota, and lastly we will be visiting Nebraska. This may seem like a fun family vacation, but I’m terrified to find out what all can happen within the next six days. It is almost noon on a sunny day in July. We just

Should the Past be Judged? We can learn a lot from consulting the past. We learn more about our world, more about our history, and even more about ourselves. Spanish aphorist George Santayana once said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (qtd. in Moncur 1). In general terms, this famous aphorism means that it is important for us to study and learn from history in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes. However, the standards and values that we use today to judge

Voting for something or for someone in a big or small range cannot only affect you but, also other in a huge scale, even the whole country or world. Although people take it for granted, voting is a system, whose certain leaders and decisions and decided based on the population choice. However in some cases this doesn’t apply such as in the electoral college, and therefore not voting or making the wrong choice within the imprecise popular votes and electoral vote ratio, it can actually make a big

There are many ways in which we can view the history of the American West. One view is the popular story of Cowboys and Indians. It is a grand story filled with adventure, excitement and gold. Another perspective is one of the Native Plains Indians and the rich histories that spanned thousands of years before white discovery and settlement. Elliot West’s book, Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado, offers a view into both of these worlds. West shows how the histories of

Write: For this post, the class will be divided into three sections. Please be sure to write about the specific topic you are assigned based on the first letter of your last name. First, all students should summarize how the Electoral College functions. Second, each student will focus on a specific argument regarding the Electoral College, based on the first letter of their last name. If your last name starts with A-K: Explain the positive impact of the Electoral College and defend why the Electoral

Diary entry 2: We landed in independence, MO. We took a little rest overnight and one of the Indians took our kid Hamilton Weaver. We have not found him yet and I think that they are going to give up hope. He's been gone for 5 weeks and we are already at the Platte River.I can only imagine what he looked like: blonde and brunette hair but mostly brunette about 3”. I didn't know him that well because he usually just stayed in the wagon but most people say that he was really nice and never complained

Mammoth Cave National Park Under the prairies of Kentucky There is the biggest cave system in the United States. The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park spans out 80 square miles. No one knows how big the actual cave is though. Mammoth Cave was discovered by a mixed race slave, Stephen Bishop, when he was walking through the woods and found the massive cave (which we now know as Mammoth Cave) and mapped out some passage ways. Bishop died in 1857 (he died when he was 37) and his grave is at the

A male age 15 and over who is a fanatic of the show My Little Pony is called a brony. Mainstream society describes these people as homosexuals, perverts, and jobless men who live with their parents. People aren’t hesitant to quickly label bronies as the rejects of society. Most bronies, at first, don’t feel comfortable telling people about their My Little Pony addiction because they are afraid of society’s oppressive ways. According to some bronies in the video, they are picked on at school for