Mount McKinley

Mount St. Helen's is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range in Skamania County, Washington and is part of the Ring of Fire centered around the Pacific Ocean. Mount St. Helen's was created when the oceanic Jean de Fuca plate subducted beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle…

forward now how did you learn about Marist? What's the connection for you coming here? You were in New Paltz area first were you not? JS: I am trying to think I know what the connection was. I took courses and Suny New Paltz after I had graduated from Mount Saint Mary when I was teaching when I was a teacher. If you had a student teacher would…

Northwest is known for its deep evergreen forests and numerous tall jagged cones and this area is home to the Strato-Volcano Peak known today as Mount St. Helens. Originally named “Louwala-Clough,” or “Smoking Mountain,” by the Native American Indians in the region. Many legends were handed down explaining accounts about eruptions the Indians witnessed about Mount St. Helens. According to the lore of these Native American tribes, a huge landslide formed a natural bridge named Tamanawas that…

On October 6, 2016, I drove to Mount Vernon Nazarene University to meet with Gary Swisher, the Coordinator of Career Development. As a student enrolled in the Career & Advising focus in my SAHE program, I decided it would be helpful to observe someone who filled a Career Advising role. I reached out to Mr. Swisher because of the school he worked at. Before attending Wright State University for my undergraduate degree I visited Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) as a potential school. It was…

Foreigner is a popular band founded in 1976 by Mick Jonas. Along with him on guitar, you have Kelly Hansen as lead vocalist, Tom Gimbel who could play guitar, keyboards, sax and flute, Jeff Pilson playing bass, Michael Bluestein playing the keyboard, Bruce Watson playing guitar, and Chris Frazier on drums. Still around today, it has made a huge impact. This essay will be able to tell you a bit about the band, and how their music affected their time. It will also convey information such as their…

something wrong with the name? After president McKinley passed away; the tallest mountain in North America named after him. Now president Obama is disgracing the McKinley Family and his home state of Ohio by changing the name after a hundred years. Mount McKinley is the tallest mountain peak in North America that reaches over twenty thousand, three hundred and ten feet tall. The mountain is located in the Alaskan range. In 1896 after President McKinley got assassinated at the Pan-American…

cold; your breath hardly turns into the solid matter that we know as ice. Climbing mount McKinley would be an out of this world experience for me to explore. The stiff climbs and high peaks would not bother me because my goal would be to reach the summit. This trip that I have on my bucket list, I hope I will be able to travel one day. Out…

My national park was Mount Rainier National Park, Mount Rainier is one of the oldest national parks in the United States, Mount Rainier itself is at about 1 million years old. Mount Rainier is also Washington’s tallest peak, and it has the 17th highest summit in the United States, its summit is about 14,410 feet; Mount Rainier National Park itself was founded in 1885. Mount Rainier is actually an active volcano, but the snow covers up the lava underpinnings. Mount Rainier also use to have life…

Geography of Alaska, Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. Alaska is the biggest state in the United States combined by California, Montana, and Texas. It has more ocean coastal then all of United States combined. Alaska extends from Eastern Hemisphere and both the westernmost and easternmost state in united state. The land area is 570,380 square miles (1477,300 km2). In 1967 United States bought Alaska. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000…

Christopher McCandless. On the first page of the authors note, Krakauer gives a description of his novel. He writes, “In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters” (Krakauer, 1). However, McCandless himself is not aware that in the end, he will die. He believes that his superiority in relation to living in isolation will…