Anchorage

The Care Team at the University of Anchorage Alaska (UAA) is one of the many helpful resources available to students who struggling emotionally or going through a crisis. Their goal is to remind students that UAA cares about their well-being and success. Such incredible program is run by Lisa Terwilliger (L. Terwilliger, personal communication, March 8, 2016). I had the privileged to interview her and learn a few things about her role as the Care Team coordinator and as a helping professional in…

financial guidebooks. • Regularly examine, certify and audit vouchers submitted for payments, and submit in Corporate WINRS in compliance with VA directives, regulations, policies and procedures for Regional Offices and FT. Harrison. (Previously for Anchorage, Hawaii and Reno from February 2015 through July 2015 due to VA realignment). • Generate and authorize payments and other master records adjustments on the Benefits Deliver System (BDN) and Financial Accounting System (FAS) for Vocational…

After spending your entire childhood growing up in an underground shelter, you wake up one day to find your father has abandoned your home, which is forbidden by your society’s leader. After a not so friendly encounter your leader and the security force you manage to escape your home, looking back it was a more of a prison. You open a battered door outside of the cave that the massive entrance to the shelter is located in and you get hit with the warmth of sunlight for the first time in 18…

32 miles northeast of McGrath and eight miles north of Medfra in west-central Alaska (Figure 1; see Appendix A for report figures). The Project is not connected with the Alaska road system; therefore site access is by charter plane flown out of Anchorage, Fairbanks, or McGrath. The Project includes a 4,200-foot long airstrip, which is the sole source of access to the site for all workers, equipment, and supplies. The Project consists of roughly 775 acres located…

eruption in Alaska. (“Alaska Volcano Observatory”). The mountains in Alaska are huge they are larger than some skyscrapers. But Mt Spur’s center peak almost hits 15,000 feet but when that mountain had an avalanche and it almost took out half of Anchorage, Alaska. The biggest thing is the history about the volcanoes, since 1760 there has been 240 combined eruptions (“Alaska Volcano…

North Stradbroke Island or Minjerribah (indigenous name) is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in Queensland. Stradbroke is the second largest sand island in the world. On the island there are a number of lakes and beaches along most of the coastline with rocky ridges at Point Lookout. The island has been the site for sand mining for more than sixty years. Tourism and currently mining are the island's main industries. On the island there is an Aboriginal community. The Quandamooka people…

new president of the United States of America, I will promise you people, that I will bring peace and justice to you folk,” 2 days later…. “Hello Alaska,” says Donald Trump as he is on his way to Anchorage in Alaska to sign an important peace treaty with the Bigfoot Peoples. Today he is meeting with the Bigfoot Chieftain, Mr Bobby Walter Jenkins. “Hello I am Donald Trump and I am here to discuss a peace treaty with you and your peoples, in…

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…

competition was getting more difficult and when traveling I was gone for to long. I enjoy my friends and coach, but I think I was done. I was 8 years old and I had just quit karate, but my mom wanted me to stay active. She drove to this place called Anchorage Gymnastics Association and asked me if I wanted to join. I remember seeing people fly really high in the air and climbing up the tall rope in the middle of the floor. At that moment I knew I wanted to join. My first day there, I met my…

It was a cold, windy Friday night the orphanage “Safe Anchorage” was having the kids go to bed. But one kid wouldn’t go to bed, his name was Steve he was a 9-year-old boy who had just been at the orphanage for 2 months. He was about 5’5, he had short brown hair, and had hazel eyes. His parents were both murdered, as they once were criminals too. Steve never knew the truth about them until he had nowhere to go, and because of this he had a really tough time sleeping, yet alone talking. Every day…