Frozen Essay

What is Tundra? The tundra can be found at the top of the earth close to the North Pole. It’s a huge biome that looks so nice and covers the fifth of the earth’s surface. Tundra comes from the word Tunturia. Tundra is the coldest biome in the earth, and it’s hard to live in it from how cold it is. Tundra doesn’t have trees (treeless) in the Arctic and top of the mountains where the climate is cold or windy. Extremely low temperature and a little precipitation Tundra’s lands are…

Have you ever been to the Gaslight Melodrama? If you have, you know how good their performances can be; but if not, you are missing out on a great show! The play “Santa’s Angels,” written and directed by Michael Prince, began with Father Time and his assistant, Bearnaise, talking about how they should speed up time to stop Santa from delivering all the presents on Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning. This is caused by the small feud between Father Time and Santa. As the story continues, Santa…

Through reading Shelagh Grant’s book, “Polar Imperative,” the understanding I have come to is that the Arctic is a much more politically complex and socially diverse ecosystem than I once previously assumed. Previously viewing the Arctic as a barren frozen tundra with scarce species, including polar bears, seals, and fish. Through reading Polar Imperative my view has incorporated a political, geographic, and historical transdisciplinary understanding; which Island belongs to what country, and…

In Hugh Maclennan’s Barometer Rising, the author uses the time differently. He is working his way to the story which is the explosion that happened in Halifax on the Harbor. He uses his 304 pages to described the six days before the explosion. The reader knows that the explosion will happen eventually, but the lasting of events before is unbearable. MacLennan uses temporal markers in his novel to situate us through his novel. He uses weekdays and hours to put the reader into context. For the…

When Shadow comes close to death after falling in the frozen lake he comes to the realization about who Hinzelmann really is. While trapped under the ice Shadow comes across multiple bodies, children’s bodies. Coincidently the person who sent him to the frozen lake (Hinzelmann) was the same person who rescued him after the lake had broke beneath him causing him to fall in. When Shadow asked Hinzelmann why…

civilizations. Through documents, paintings, and sculptures we have been able to piece together a puzzle to tell a story of a time that was. However, in the mid-eighteenth century, a historical treasure had been uncovered. An entire city, standing frozen in time, has given more than a possible educated guess to the ways of life of the residents of Pompeii. Through various works of art, we have in insight into the ever-present patriarchy, differences in social status, and sexualization of women.…

in high command by the Nazis, these experiments were divided into two categories the first was how long it would take for the victim to freeze to death the second was how to resuscitate (revive someone from unconsciousness or apparent death.) the frozen victim.(http://remember.org) there was two main ways to freeze the person either to be placed outside in sub zero degree weather or to be placed in a ice vat, the fastest and easiest way was the ice vat. usually the picked were healthy and either…

However it can place over 400,000 frozen embryos in clinics all over this country and leave them abandoned for years and years to come. Why not let the doctors take these frozen embryos and due the research needed to help with the new therapies and cures that they can come up with now and in the future instead of deciding to take them and thaw them and leave…

that it be re-acclimatized to outdoor conditions gradually when returning outdoors. Place it in an unheated, sheltered location a day or so for the transition. Finally, water it well and take it back outside. If the ground is not frozen, plant it. If the ground is frozen, protect the root ball by insulating it in a pile of moistened mulch or straw until the…

what he was asked to do. So they pressed on and had to cross different bodies of water. Deaths occurred while traveling everyday. Some days they would wake up and find people froze to death during the night. They couldn’t bury most because of how frozen the ground was so they dug as far as they could and then covered them with snow. By the time winter started they weren’t even close to getting there. Levi didn’t travel as fast as he could because he was constantly helping others with their carts…