Alaska

Alaska Alaska is one of the most amazing places in the world. Some of the great things in Alaska are its culture,environment weather,outdoor activities,wildlife. Alaska was adopted for the united states in January 3, 1959. The population is 735,123 that is more than Rhode Island, that state has 1.052 million. Alaska is a crazy place but it has beautiful views. Alaskas culture is one of the most interesting culture in the world. People go to Alaska to get away from those big cities and live in the middle of the woods were there no civilisation near by. They depend much on their resource like meat ,wood,water,farms they do or make.some people have been doing that for many years, an example is the Inuits some people call them Eskimos. But they…

Hey Chris here, Over these past months I have been living in Alaska. Before my arrival, I walked and caught rides. There were a variety of generous people during my journey to Alaska. While living in Alaska, as my supplies for food started running low. Fortunately, I stumbled across a moose and I was able to shoot it. My attempts to smoke it out failed, but sadly it was too late. I’ve been starving for the past weeks with nothing to eat. In my final moments of my life I couldn’t help but…

You feel the cool breeze as winter recedes in the beautiful Alaskan Yukon. As you stand in the breeze you think, “this is the most beautiful place in the world”. Everyone who has visited Alaska has said the same thing, and even the most strict critics have admitted to its splendor. Alaska is an amazing place the history, landscape, wildlife, and the many things to do will show you that Alaska truly is a place of wonder and majesty. Historians still do not know when and how people began to live…

Alaska is a state of the united States of America. Actually Alaska is the largest state in the United States of America. Alaska was the 49th added to the union of the United States of America. Originally Alaska was founded by Europeans in 1741. Alaska’s first settle was by Russian whalers and fur traders on the Kodiak Island in 1784.Alaska is mostly known for their wild animals such as moose running across the road in front of car and causing damage. The state is also known for Wilderness,…

Today, a lot of people call Alaska The Last Frontier. Alaska is referred to as a wilderness that is unsettled, covered in snow, not accessible, remote, and a very intense land where very few tough pioneers traveled to. Hope, a small town on the Kenai Peninsula, gives Alaska a frontier spirit. Hope was the location for the first gold discovery in Alaska in 1896 and gold was the mainstay of the Alaskan economy. The gold rush caused the building of railways to extract minerals. More recently,…

Response Paper One In this paper, I will respond to three topics that will include: “Alaska and Its People” by Maria SHAA TLAA Williams, The Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska by Helen D. Corbert and Susanne W Swibold, as well as the video of Beautiful Journey by Demientieff and Williams, and closing with a summary of power point Alaska Native Perspectives Na Dena – Athabascan Peoples by Maria Williams. According to The Alaska Native Reader of your book, Alaska is one fifth the size of…

the Yukon to construct a highway stretching from mainland United States to Alaska overcoming obstacles of climate, terrain, and manpower shortages (see Figure 1). The construction of the Alaska Highway serves an illustrative episode where Canadian and American interest in northern development and continental defense became intertwined. There has been a tendency in the historiography to over-emphasize the threat that American presence on Canadian soil brought to Canadian sovereignty. This paper…

Oil Drilling in Alaska Alaska has a reputation for having one of the most beautiful and bountiful ecosystems America has to offer. However, this time capsule of scenic beauty may be in danger. The Shell Oil Company has plans to drill for oil off the northern coast of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea. It is believed that one fourth of earth's undiscovered oil maybe found beneath its floor. However, drilling could potentially have a negative impact on the environment. The Chukchi Sea is home to an…

Geography of Alaska, Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. Alaska is the biggest state in the United States combined by California, Montana, and Texas. It has more ocean coastal then all of United States combined. Alaska extends from Eastern Hemisphere and both the westernmost and easternmost state in united state. The land area is 570,380 square miles (1477,300 km2). In 1967 United States bought Alaska. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000…

Everything’s larger in Alaska. Alaska’s vast land is placed on the northwest corner of the Northern American continent adjacent to the North Pacific Ocean. Its geographic center is sixty-three degrees, fifty’ north latitude, and a hundred fifty degrees west longitude. Alaska is the largest of all fifty states and about one-fifth the size of the lower states. Its total land stretches 663,300 square miles and water taking up 94,743 square miles. It’s prodigious land also holds three thousand…