Arizona

Library participates in the Culture Pass Program, which allows students to check out Culture Passes at any of ASU’s four libraries and grants them access to a museum or exhibit in the surrounding area. Through this program, students can explore the Arizona Science Center, Desert Botanical Garden, the Challenger Space Center and many more institutes for free. General…

Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846, The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. In The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846, The American Southwest Under Mexico, Dr. David J. Weber takes readers on a well-versed journey through what would become much of the United States’ held, American southwest. After completing the enormous task of pulling together, sifting through, and analyzing for veracity and applicability, literally dozens of…

is used to help move water back into our canals from the ones we send through california.”In 1912, the Colorado River Siphon was an engineering breakthrough. It was designed to take water from a canal on the California side of the Colorado to the Arizona side” this is one example of how we used irrigation and how geography got in our way we dug down and under the river to move this water but the landscape is rough and was not easy to dig through. The yuma siphon went down 85 feet across 965…

The Grand Canyon, as it exists today, is an enormous, 277 mile-long trench carved through the landscape of Arizona by the Colorado River. It reached depths of up to 1 mile, and is as wide as 15 miles in some places. The Grand Canyon was created through the geographical changes brought about by the Laramide Orogeny, a seismic event that occurred approximately 70 million years ago and caused the formation of the Rocky Mountains. Later, around 18 million years ago, the Basin and Range Province was…

The developers of the Yuma project had to overcome several challenges before the project was built. Natural hazards and other difficulties made it hard to achieve the goal of building the Yuma project. The natural catastrophes that occurred at that time made detractors of the project criticise it even further. “Floods constituted a major hazard for the Yuma project.” They damaged the project several times, while it was built, being “fed by rapidly melting snow” in spring and early summer and…

Kameron Thompson Coursework Ploude 1 Yuma & It’s Irrigation Intro Question One Describe in detail how irrigation changed Yuma/Southern Arizona? Irrigation in Yuma has evolved quite a lot, but before irrigation was evolving it was Yuma being evolved by irrigation. Before the help of irrigation, Yuma would often be flooded due to over rising waters that came from The Colorado. With the start of The Yuma Project, irrigation would be able to…

In The Old Man and the Sea, it became clear that the concept of “coming of age” does not really have anything to do with age. For me, coming of age is about you believing that you have reached a certain level of maturity. Everyone’s perception of coming of age is unique to them, so coming of age can be different for different people. Overall, coming of age is about being able to believe that you deserve respect from yourself and others by reaching a certain level of maturity. A person’s ideal…

Arizona is a very political state and has been since it entered the United States on the romantic holiday of February 14, 1912. Though, Arizona is known for its deserts, extreme dry heat and the Grand Canyon, there's more to the state than it's geographical climate. The state of Arizona has been a Republican state majority of its existence. There's many issues such as same sexed marriages, abortions and numerus others that concern the people of Arizona and the state itself. Since the 1950's,…

One of the eight ancestral Hopi Pueblos, the Chevelon Pueblo, is located in northeast Arizona. With five hundred room constructed, Chevelon Pueblo is the third largest, and although the groups flourished, they were eventually abandoned. The main goal at this site is to determine why the site became abandoned in the first place. To gather the information needed, excavation strategies must be selected. From earlier discoveries, it has been found that the Pueblo was constructed in three major…

The Grand Canyon, located in Northern Arizona, is a spectacular site as it is 277 miles long and 18 miles wide. In 1919, The Grand Canyon became a National Park, yet before that it had been revered by multiple Southwest tribes for thousands of years. Native American occupation dates to 12,000 years ago and today there are 11 tribes that are traditionally and historically associated with the canyon. Throughout humankind’s history there has always been a debate concerning natural resources and…