Beautiful Mountain

The Magnificent 60 Mountain Peaks Shenandoah National Park, in Virginia, protects over 19,000 acres of land, with more than 500 miles of trail, which include the 101 miles long Appalachian Trail. Admission is required at this national park however it is definitely worth it according to happy visitors. National Park, Shenandoah itself has about 60 wooded mountain peaks. Nearly the entire park is 2,000 feet above sea level. Along with hiking, people like to camp at Shenandoah, which requires a…

“high”. Pardon the pun. But this all has to do with the biggest thing in Colorado, the most monumental, and of course, the highest. The Rocky Mountains. Starting in New Mexico and spanning all the way to all the way to Canada for a total of 3,000 miles. They run across Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. But the Colorado Rockies are particularly beautiful. The spring runoff brings green trees all the way through summer. Fall brings fantastic colors of orange, red, and brown. Winter snowstorms…

oldest in the world. It would be a really good place to go and visit because visitors can go see colorful hot springs rise up, see geysers (like Old Faithful), mudpots, and lots more!!! This implies that Yellowstone is very colorful and beautiful. Besides it being beautiful there are a lot of things families can do, and places families can go and see. Yellowstone is 3,472 square miles (over 2.2 million acres) which is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined!! For instance,…

In the video, “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains”, news correspondent Diane Sawyer introduces the viewers to various families and individuals living in poverty stricken communities in the Central Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. According to the program, the people living there are descendants of pioneers and legendary fighters in the American military. “They are brave, tough, wary of outsiders, steeped in family and faith” (20/20). This is an area of the country that is experiencing…

our fears and how terror plays with our emotions. Monsters are a common subject in both Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. In Mary Shelley 's novel the man Frankenstein creates his own monster by turning back death itself. In the end, the creature ultimately brings upon Frankenstein’s doom. In At the Mountains of Madness, the monster is not created but rather found. As the two scientists, Dyer and Danforth, explore the unknown of the antarctic they…

The Transcontinental Railroad was not only the first massive mode of transportation to connect coast to coast for the United States but it was a race, a major source of immigration, culture, and the livelihood for many who worked on it. Building the railroad wasn’t an easy feat, it had grueling trials on both the manual and non-manual side of the process. The financing for the railroad constituted finding loopholes to get the most government funding possible and finding investors. While the…

Inez has four grids, Spring Creek has three, Tally has nine, and Marcum Mountain has two. We began "Snowshoe Hare School" on June 11, 2016 by setting two of the Inez grids. According to Dr. Mills and his current graduate student, Brandon Davis, Inez is good to learn on before moving further northwest to Tally. Now that I have…

buildings, the University of Chicago has many buildings that are rooted in gothic architecture. It feels like you are in a different time period when you walk on campus. In addition, the University of Chicago has the Mansueto Library, one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen. The student body is comprised of some of the smartest students from around the world, creating one of the most intellectual and diverse group of students among universities. As a student, I would contribute…

He also mentions how developing nations receive their health care from traditional or indigenous health system. Which adds to the ideas of how important folk medicine was in the past, for example in places such as the Appalachia mountains, where they used remedies and herbal medicine to cure their…

Aylmer is a scientist who has been given the gift of a graceful, as well as, beautiful wife named Georgiana. He becomes transfixed with a birthmark on her cheek, and believes it takes away from her beauty. Georgiana explains to Alymer that, the birthmark had "been so often called a charm." Alymer disagrees, calling it a "visible mark…