Anchorage

Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer most known for his writings about the outdoors. His first encounter with the controversial story of Christopher Johnson McCandless began in 1992 shortly after the death of McCandless. The journey of McCandless was widely publicized and drew the inquisitive eyes of many across the nation. After being assigned to write an article for the Outside magazine, Krakauer began to dwell further into the story of Chris McCandless. Although he was…

Blackness. The Internalization stage is not without challenge, as this stage may involve internal conflicts and challenges associated with the new identity (Ritchey, 2015). Black identity in this stage serves to “fulfill the self-protection, social anchorage and bridging needs of the individual” (Ritchey, 2015, p. 103). Internalization-Commitment is the final stage of Nigresence, which merges the understanding of commitment to the newly shaped identity. In this stage, individuals may choose to…

hold infants against their upper backs when traveling(Athabascan Indian History).” This kept the mother's hands free to carry or do other things with there hands. Early examples of the baby belt were not so beautifully decorated. According to the Anchorage Museum “Although such belts may have existed in prehistoric times, examples that exist today are almost uniform in style: a broad, heavily beaded band of moosehide or cloth, with decorative dangles of colored yarn and beads.(Athabascan Indian…

A seven-day vacation on a Princess Cruise ship to Alaska had a gruesome ending for Kristy Manzanares. The 39-year-old Utah woman boarded the ship in Seattle with 1,100 crew members and 3,400 other passengers, including the man that would put an end to her life, according to ABC News. The woman became the victim of a domestic dispute that broke out aboard the ship, leading to her murder. According to the Associated Press FBI Special Agent Michael L. Watson reported her husband, Kenneth…

Drexton Robinson Mrs.Baker Language Arts Gary Paulsen's Woodsong is a personal detailed account of his experiences competing in The Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race held in Nome, Alaska. The Iditarod race is enduringly intense, affecting the participants both mentally and physically. Throughout the race, participants may feel sleep-deprived and experience hallucinations worse than an ordinary nightmare. On the day that Paulsen competes, he is one of the seventy-three mushers who finishes number…

the boundary between the North American and the Pacific plate. Paragraph B During the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake a lot of buildings and properties were destroyed. The earthquake caused a tsunami and many landslides that destroyed Valdez, Anchorage, and Seward. The earthquake caused the tsunami by making a part of the seafloor elevate. Eventually, because of the earthquake the town of Valdez was moved because it was not stable. This killer quake was so strong that it released twice the…

When Gallien was driving McCandless to the Denali National Park, he “offered to drive Alex all the way to Anchorage, buy him some decent gear, and then drive him back to wherever he wanted to go” (Krakauer 6). The people that he met were more than willing to help him whether it was giving him a ride or providing him with the necessities. Unfortunately, McCandless…

Chris McCandless persisted in being a difficult, unprepared young man with a dream. Along the way, he committed many mistakes which caused his accidental death. When Chris would be picked up while hitchhiking, the men would offer help or equipment which Chris would politely decline, he was negligent and altogether unprepared. We will never know if he would survive had things be different but common sense shows if you were prepared, difficult situations are handled differently. Chris McCandless…

differences in hinges, all Brachiopods have a mantle, a trait which is shared with the phylum Mollusca. Mollusca can be differentiated from the rest of the supergroup Unikonta by the presence of a foot. The foot, a modified appendage which offers anchorage and locomotive abilities, is found in all four classes of Molluscs, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Polyplacophora, and Bivalvia. The foot of a Cephalopod however, bears little resemblance to the foot of the other three classes. Instead, the…

I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and I have never known what it was like to live in the lower forty-eight states until I attended college at Oregon State University. Of course I have traveled throughout the states many times but it was still a small culture shock when I moved. Ever since I was little I have wanted to get out of Alaska because I am a warm person and let me tell you, it’s not warm there. So when I came down here on September 20th, 2015 I thought I had finally left the…