Mojave Desert

I have always envied people who are enthusiastically determined to have a profession and then diligently pursue the required education. Sometimes it seems that my ambition, goals, timing and opportunity have mirrored fate of Hansel’s breadcrumbs. My experience form elementary to present are rather uneventful if not boring. Elementary school is probably the most enlightening period of my childhood; I can remember so many firsts. Elementary school is where I developed a need to read. My…

It was one of the best days this summer. It was a cool day in June when my family and I traveled to the airport to go to Las Vegas, Nevada. I was very excited to go to Las Vegas because I had seen how cool it looked on the movies and TV shows, and now I was finally going to be able to see it in person. Las Vegas is the setting in my favorite movie series, The Hangover, and I wanted to see all the places in Las Vegas that are in The Hangover movie series. We got to the airport and did all the…

in a war. It was April 2009 when I shipped out to my first war, Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was eager to finally go do what I joined the Marines to do which was go to Iraq. Nearly 24 hours of flights and layovers later, I was there in the hot arid desert of Iraq on Camp Al Asad when it hit me. It was no longer a game at any point in time you can die or get seriously hurt. Weekly convoys of sitting in a truck, riding in a…

Irrigation in yuma and its significance. Intro: Question 1: Describe in detail how irrigation changed yuma? Yuma has changed in many ways over many years. It is known for a few things such as the sunniest city on earth. This is a big contributor to the success of yuma's agriculture in an otherwise barren and dry landscape yuma has ingenious ways of delivering water to their plants. This is their methods of irrigation they take water from the colorado and divert it by use of canals and dams.…

Chris’s letter to his sister, Carine, which talks about how he loved his car, the Datsun, and refuses to take any other car offered to him by his parents (Chapter 3, page 21). On the contrary, in chapter 4, Chris ends up abandoning his Datsun in the Mojave Desert when it ends up stuck in the Dentrital Wash; including a note on the windshield addressed to anybody that finds it: “This piece of shit has been abandoned. Whoever can get it out of here can have it.” Krakauer uses this contradiction to…

Growing up as a kid Christopher McCandless had to deal with his cookie cutter family, and how his parents wanted people to see them. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, we see Christopher as he was in different parts of his life. We see him being an outsider feeding the homeless, forcing his way out of an accelerated program and failing physics because of disobeying lab guidelines. He rejected a new car from his parents because he believed it wasn’t a gift that it was just them trying to fix the…

Long ago, when America was still an unexplored frontier framers shaped the constitution that bound us to the land and each other. Arizona was not born of that constitution, but inherent on the dry desert plain and grew into a founding sight for cultural understanding. Having been once a prominent part of Mexico’s history, Arizona is a benchmark for diversity. “Trappers, traders, and explorers worked the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico for the…

Las Vegas, Nevada—the city known for its flamboyant nightlife and never-ending party—instills a fictional reputation for those living outside of the city. Tourists often see the beauty and elegance proudly marketed by Las Vegas; the city does what it does best—put on a show. The city does nothing more than put a façade to hide the failure to serve our community. I chose to write about Las Vegas because the misconceptions of my hometown affect how people think of me when I introduce myself.…

ended up surviving to reproduce while the light colored moths became easy prey, and the dark moths became the new majority (“Lecture on taxonomy…”, Kuta, 2016). As for rock pocket mice, a similar situation occurred. The rock pocket mice in the Mojave desert were light colored to blend in with their sandy home, which helped them camouflage from predators. Unfortunately for them, volcanic eruptions caused patches of sand to blacken, making them easy targets. What happened was that dark-furred rock…

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, It shows the difficulty and challenges one can experience of moving around a lot. Moving for Jeannette was not just hard physically but also really hard mentally. While there is maybe only a few couple things that is a little bit familiar between Jeannette and I there is this one thing that really makes her character connected to me, and that one thing is…