How can multi-dimensional problems be solved by sustainability? In the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, a doctor named Paul Farmer tries to answer this question by starting a health center in Haiti. Farmer soon realizes that some of the physical obstacles that the Haitian people live with on a daily basis, are nearly impossible to change. By analyzing what caused the problems Haiti faces, he sees the history of the Péligre Dam as a tool of prevention for future dilemmas. Farmer learns a great deal about how the choices of outside influences, such as the United States government, negatively impact the lives of the Haitian people.…
In the digital article titled, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, John Branch writes about the avalanche at Tunnel Creek that affected a group of 16 skiers on February 19th, 2012. Published by the New York Times, this web text is an engaging piece of writing to regular online New York Time readers because it displays a captivating analysis of the people affected by the avalanche. The article also uses computer-animated motion pictures to help the readers visualize the text. Branch’s written work is effective in attracting his readers through use of figurative language, displays of cinematography, and the use of pathos; these four characteristics are helpful in having the readers understand and visualize the situation.…
This trail has only a slight incline; therefore, people…
In this essay, “Between the Highs and the Lows, Life Happens”, by Canadian rapper K'naan, provides a narrative look into the development of his musical career and the inspiration behind his music. K’naan begins the essay by revealing his original desire to be an optometrist as a young boy in Somalia before moving to Canada. However, he expresses the difficulty he had leaving Somalia and entering Canadian culture. Transitioning from a worn-torn country into Canadian culture led to the development of K’naan’s mental health issues which includes insomnia, depression, and anxiety. Simultaneously, K’naan reveals that his interest in music began to develop alongside his mental health issues.…
The 1980’s Eruption of Mount St. Helens “Nature is so powerful and we don’t have any control over that” said Lesa Oestreich when asked about what something she’ll always remember from the 1980’s eruption of Mount St. Helens. On May 18, 1980 57 people lost their lives because Mount St. Helens after lying dormant for 123 years erupted. Although there had been fair warning some people decided to stay in areas already told to be dangerous and therefore lost their lives. The Car Lesa Oestrich had a non-direct experience with Mount St. Helen’s…
The parenting styles in “The Father” by Hugh Garner and “Saturday Climbing” By W.D Valgardson have similarities and differences, the father in “Saturday Climbing” knows almost too much about his daughter Moira. On the other hand, The Father in “The Father is a lot colder and almost un caring of his son until he finds out how incredible his son is. In “The Father” The distance between the two has drastic effects on the foundations of their relationship.…
Over the course of this semester, I have learned a great deal about women and social action. In particular, the Anderson text, Thinking About Women, and Cantarow’s Moving the Mountain introduced me to a number of different issues that I had not previously considered as a white, middle-class woman. After examining historical, sociological, feminist, and other perspectives and reading about activists who worked to bring about social change, I feel I have become better informed and more aware of the challenges women face in today’s society as well as more inclined to participate in opportunities for social action. Part A Activist Jessie Lopez De La Cruz was a Mexican American, born in California in 1919 to a working poor family.…
Buck, Rinker. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey. Revised ed. New York:…
The beauty of the southwest knows no bound. The unique landscape is home to some of the most awe-inspiring mountains, cliffs, and valleys that I have seen in my life. My research and my adventures has a broad range that has a very subtle overlap. I will do the best to my ability to show you what I learned in my time in Utah and in the library. I decided to go to the Markgragunt gravity slide.…
One of the most common words that come to people's minds when the word “American” is being mentioned is freedom. That is why a massive of Non-American people from another country migrate here to America for their own specific reason like financing, work, education and more. Many people that live in America have different ethnicities and race, all of which came from each of their individual background. Through these different mediums, Wonder, Chapman, and Cory convey the idea that on American identity consist of wealth/ Materialism and American dream culture. American dream culture for non-white american people, especially for black people is briefly described in Tracy Chapman song “Mountain O’ Thing.”…
Henry Petroski writes “Falling Down Is part of Growing Up”. Petroski’s main idea is by describes the engineering and the structure on human bodies. Petroski is interesting in how we learn from our mistakes and to grow from them. At various point in the essay Petroski describes the human as cranes and forklifts. At other points in the essay Petroski refers to the dependability of human bodies.…
Ethical Decisions Essay Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and is a dream for many climbers everywhere in the world. However sometimes these dreams end up in catastrophe, much like what happened in 1996 to three teams on the mountain. Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team, Scott Fischer’s Mountain Madness, and the Taiwanese team led by Makalu Gau. There were 33 climbers split across those three teams attempting to summit on May 10th, 1996, of those, 19 climbers would be stuck in the ‘death zone’. Every team on the mountain was faced with moral decisions on the mountain during this time.…
Me. Colorado. Mountains. Skiing. 12,510 feet. Nothing brings more enthusiasm than knowing you’re about to be carried over two miles in elevation by a rickety bench hanging from a cable, only to slide all the way down on a couple narrow strips of plastic.…
A Mountainous Change How would you define a life changing experience? Every person has one, but what characteristics make one simple event into something so drastically important? There are no limits as to what could be a person's life changing moment. Traveling the world could change a person's life, but so could reading a book.…
Some people go through it sooner than others; some people are privileged to live up to 100 years old. But the bottom line about this is that no matter how rich, poor, popular, weird, strange, quite, or loud you are; you will never be able to avoid it. Emily Dickenson’s Poem 258 “The Slant of Life” talks about death, and is also the inspiration to the book “An Imperial Affliction” which is the book within tfios. Emily curses the fact that she has to feel pain, but at the same time also realizes the importance of pain.…