Antarctica

and each crew member struggling to help each other out and keep their sanity are just some of the hurdles in these treacherous expeditions. You might already have a clue about how hard these expeditions are because well, everyone knows how harsh Antarctica is being known as a “frozen desert”, but in this essay I’m going to delve deeper into the hurdles that Shackleton and his crew endured in “Shipwreck at the Bottom of the world”. What are polar expeditions? Well, polar expeditions are the…

this time the ice caps from the north and south had melted. Which after resulted in raised sea levels. With this time pangea ( A supercontinent to where all the continents were all connected.) was also changing, Australia was breaking away from Antarctica and gradually moving away from the South Pole, closer to the Equator. The major plants that were dominating australia were conifers and ferns and by dominated I mean the land was covered in them, Thing is half of australia was covered in…

The Future of Life: Why Conservation is Important The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson is a book that discusses a hot topic during the age of “Global Warming” and “climate change.” That topic is how will we sustain life on earth without destroying biological diversity and remain comfortable. He goes on to discuss that biodiversity on Earth is threatened by rampant human consumption and population growth. Yes, the world is richer than ever before, but as a result of this, ecosystems have…

The Atomic bomb is the most controversial weapon ever made by man; first used by the United States of America during World War Two, it evaporated tens of thousands of people In seconds and destroyed whole cities. The Atomic bomb was devastating but not devastating enough for the U.S. Government who started another bomb project only this time experimenting with Hydrogen. Thus the Hydrogen bomb was created; a bomb that was feared by all people who knew about it. This paper will give one a good…

Sidebar: The largest tsunami wave ever recorded happened in 1958. An earthquake triggered a massive rockslide on the shore of Lituya Bay in southeast Alaska. Almost forty million tons of rocks splashed into bay. The sudden impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the other shoreline, flooding the area. The local tsunami traveled down the length of the bay and into the Gulf of Alaska, taking millions of trees as it blasted through the water. The wave reached a run-up height of 1,720 feet.…

Kristin Armstrong Idaho. The City of Boise, Idaho, renamed one of the city’s oldest and most popular parks after 43-year-old mother and full-time career woman Kristin Armstrong, who recently won her third-straight gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trials at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After overcoming a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in 2001, Kristin is now the most decorated female cyclist in U.S. history and a leader in her community. The Kristin Armstrong…

Ultra Marathon Man Dean Karnazes, Ultra Marathon Man is a book about without a doubt, the craziest man alive. Dean Karnazes, is a Greece man who grew up in the outskirts of L.A.. Dean has 2 siblings named Kraig, and Pary. His father and mother are Nick Karnazes, and Fran Karnazes. Dean started running around the age of 14, and absolutely fell in love with the sport. He blew away everyone that he raced against in middle school, and in his first year of high school cross country he won the state…

Imagine going to Antarctica and seeing the amazing sights and beautiful scenery. Imagine seeing a cute little penguin. Then fast forward 50 years. What do you see? If fossil fuel use is not seriously reduced, then the beautiful scenery and that cute little penguin will not be there. In fact, many species and many people will not make it. So what? So you can get to work a few minutes faster in your gas guzzler of a car. Global warming is a horrible problem that scientists have known about for…

Ecotourism, as a term, was not known until the 1980’s and has since become a major component of the global tourism industry (Weaver, 2008). There are many definitions of ecotourism, ranging from general to specific, written by a number of stakeholders since the term was made common (Weaver, 2008). Peter Valentine (1992) defined it as “nature based tourism that is ecologically sustainable and is based on relatively undisturbed natural areas, is non-damaging and non-degrading, contributes directly…

anxiety, self doubt and fear was building up inside of him due to his work. Then one day he starts speaking about aliens communicating wit him through the New York Times, secret organizations are after him and that he was going to be the Emperor of Antarctica. The model could have helped him by identifying what caused him to start saying all these things considered “not…