Arizona

The Colorado River transects the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado River is ranked the fifth largest river in the United States, and is often referred to as the Nile of North America. This nickname describes its arid location and the vast human population that relies upon it (Kammerer, 2005). Despite its size, fluctuations in Colorado River stream flow are sensitive to the seasonal and annual changes in precipitation and temperature typical in arid systems. Long periods of below-average…

TEXAS’S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CPONTIRBUTION TOTHE SOUTHERN STATES Introduction The conquest of Western America shapes the present as thoroughly as it tested the ideals of the United States. The significance of Western history for the American nation cannot be understated. The American West was a meeting ground of different cultures consisting of the American Indians, Anglo Americans, African Americans and Asian Americans. All these contributed immensely to the history of the West given…

Recruitment Assistant 06/2015 to 01/2016 Barrett, The Honors College – Tempe Tempe, Arizona • Acted as a liaison between the Recruitment Office of Barrett and Prospective Students for 8-10 hours a week by compiling, analyzing, and updating Barrett’s Salesforce database, following up and setting appointments with potential students, and relaying information to superiors • Aided in the recruitment of potential Barrett students by planning, organizing, and leading tours and information sessions…

Even though they were not too far away from the Chumash groups, they faced a completely different climate and environment. The Hopi people occupied what is now the northeastern part of Arizona. A majority of this area is considered to be a desert climate. This dry climate allowed for the homes to have many unique features. The houses were a rectangular shape and construction started with the placement of rectangular stones in the rectangular…

Final Essay When most people hear racial tension, when talking about American history, they automatically jump to the south and the civil war. Many people do not take in to account the effect that rapid westward expansion had on the American peoples views of other races. In the Essay Reconstructing race, author Elliot West try’s to illustrates those effects to us. He describes to us the events that took place and how the civil war and reconstruction after the civil war was effect by both the…

Many readers that love the western writing genre can argue that Zane Grey is one of the bestselling western writers of all time. His novels The Lone Star Ranger and The Spirit of the Border are two examples of this. In these two novels Grey does a good job at showing the differences of the west during two different time periods when Native Americans roamed the lands and when cowboys and outlaws ruled the west. When examining the two novels, it will show the stereotypical views of the west,…

After being admitted to the Union in 1890 as the 43rd people, more than 1,293,953 people now live in Idaho. Idaho is nicknamed the Gem State because of its beauty. In Idaho, they many gorgeous places you can visit. One major attraction is Sun Valley located on Idaho’s splendid mountains where many Native Americans once climbed. Many famous Americans who have helped made America a better place have come from Idaho such as Moses Alexander and Ezra Pound. Idaho’s motto is “Esto Perpetua” meaning,…

Navajo land contained some of the world’s largest concentrations of uranium in a time period when the American government was scrambling to locate a steady source of this element. The uranium boom was fueled by the desperate desire to make atomic bombs faster than Americans communist foes. The Cold War pushed the American government into a frenzy to quickly develop the Manhattan Project and seek an area that could support it; this craze led the government to ignore various warnings from the…

One vacation place to consider is Tanque Verde Ranch. It is a great place to spend some quality family time and have an amazing stay! According to Tanque Verde Ranch website, it is the largest guest ranch. ‘The present day ranch has 640 acres and leases from the U.S. Forest Service approximately 60,000 acres for its cattle operation.” It is a great place to spend some family time and be outdoors. This shows that there is so much that one can do. You can do yoga if people are feeling like doing…

The Yurok tribe lived in the northwest cone of what today is California. Some of its people lived in villages along 45 miles of the Lower Klamath River. The tribe was one of three tribes – Karok, Tolowa, and Yurok. Yurok territory also ran along the Pacific Coast from Little River in the north, to Trinidad Bay in the south, in addition on the tribe’s inland territory along the Klamath River. Today the land would be in the northern part of Humboldt County and continue north though much of what is…