Lake Superior

surrounding areas. Spokane's burgeoning wine industry is home to over 20 wineries. The up-and-coming wineries in Spokane are quickly attracting national attention for their quality taste. Many of the wineries have been nationally awarded for their superior wines. The eclectic and entertaining city also features shows from multiple live theatres, outstanding performances by nationally recognized musicians, and countless gallery shows and openings. City-wide artistic and cultural events are…

lie for most of his life. After changing his name to Gatsby and meeting a rich yacht owner, he has always lived a rich reserved life, much different from his poor lifestyle of times past. In his past he was a drifter along the shore of the great Lake Superior. He dug for clams and worked for fishing boats to get along. One day he meets Dan Cody, the above mentioned yacht owner. Cody praises gatsby for his hard work and takes him under his wing. Nick thinks back thinking “I remember the portrait…

There is a lake of competency understanding; further studies are required to explore the concept…

rivalry in which duos of athletes take two runs down the course. The fastest overall time defines the champion. There is no decree that says a doubles team must encompass members of the same gender, but conventionally, men have slid together, with the superior man situated on top for a more aerodynamic fit. The doubles course is .74 miles. At the start of both doubles runs, each luge is weighed, each competitor is weighed, and temperatures of sled runners are matched to an official…

William Pollard, physicist and Episcopal priest, once said, “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” The Iron Range has been a prosperous industry for decades, until recently, when there was a large downturn in the mining industry resulting from various factors. The only way to get the Iron Range economy back up to par is through great change in the area,…

1. What is TV’s “most enduring contribution to culture”? (1) Television’s “most enduring contribution to culture is twenty-two-minute solution.” Twenty-two-minute solution gives a false idea to people that your real life problems can be solved within twenty-two-minutes just like in sitcoms on television. People are expected to solve their problems in quicker amounts of time like in sitcoms even in real life situations. 2. List two ways in which the TV serves a “teaching” role in culture. (1)…

Staying loyal to your values and beliefs helps to face the challenges put in your way. Throughout the novel, Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel, the main character, Beowulf, understands this concept and uses it to help him through battles. As Beowulf takes on the challenge of fighting dangerous monsters, he undergoes many obstacles in his effort to rescue his peers. No one has been a match for these creatures until Beowulf came along and defeated them. He ensured to stay true to his word and…

Smack in the Face Imagine you were on a mission trip. The group you were with got done with the first job you had to to then you went to a boys and girls club, and a kid ask you to go to the gym and play game with him. So you play with him and you throw a ball at one of your friends as hard as you can, miss miserably and hit a kid in the face. I went on a mission trip up to Duluth Minnesota with Carl Kruse, Dillion Bathke, Connor Jurens, Seth Sproke, Cole Riemersma, and a few others. It was…

Strangely enough, there were never that many of them, and the enemies they defeated in war were often twice their size. The Iroquois prevailed because of their unity and their superior political organization. The Iroquois confederacy was founded in order to maintain peace and resolve disputes between its members, the League's primary law was the Kainerekowa, the Great Law of Peace which simply stated that Iroquois should not…

Ernest Hemingway’s collection of short stories, In Our Time, contains many symbols and topics about the future, and more specifically about how events don’t always go as planned. Many of those symbols are expressed in the short stories “Indian Camp,” “The Three Day Blow,” and “Big Two-Hearted River: Part 1.” People may have a plan for their future, but they can never know exactly what’s going to happen is a big theme that is expressed throughout Hemingway’s collection. One of the first stories…