Mount Rushmore

On August 26, 1883, a catastrophic natural disaster happened that affected the lives of people near and far. The volcano, Krakatoa, erupted leaving a great deal of devastation in its wake. Krakatoa is a volcanic island located in the Sunda Strait along the Indonesian Island Arc. The island along with two others were remains of an earlier eruption from two hundred years before. Krakatoa Island had three large hill-like or mountain shaped volcanic cones named Rakata, Danan, and Perboewatan. Before…

1944 during WW2. Mount Vesuvius erupted right after noon on August 24th. Pompeii is visited by roughly 2.4 million people a year. Pompeii is the world’s largest excavation site. Mount Vesuvius has erupted over 50 times ever. Pompeii was preserved for almost 2,000 years when it was dug up. About 13% of people who were in Pompeii at the time, died. Before the eruption of 79 AD, the word for volcano didn’t exist. Mount Vesuvius has two craters made from early eruptions. Mount Vesuvius is the…

Ancient times before Christ, Pompeii was a flourishing city. In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted trapping thousands in the city under ash and lava; preserving the city for approximately 1700 years. Pompeii was one of the largest cities that was buried by Mount Vesuvius. Since then, excavations have begun and the city of Pompeii began to deteriorate. Currently, the big debate is on whether to discover Pompeii or preserve it. Several things come into play, involving financial issues, the historical…

In Asia, there is a place called the Himalayas. In the himalayas, you can find the highest mountain in the world. It is called Mount Everest. It height is 29 035 feet, 8848 meters high. Everest is located in the border of Nepal to the south and China or Tibet on the north. It was formed 60 million years ago by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate. Its height increases 0.25 inches every year. The wind can blow over 200 miles per hour and the temperature…

Mount Vesuvius – Italy Hypothesis: The impact of active volcanoes overlooking settlements pose as huge threats. With eruptions of volcanoes comes mud, ash and rocks leading to settlements being buried under the debris. Volcanoes also lead to lava flows and ash-and-gas explosions which damage and destroy many settlements/towns around the volcano. In worst case scenarios, eruptions of volcanoes lead to death of people and wildlife. Therefore we can deduct that a volcano is a geographical problem…

Introduction Within the context of this passage we are faced with the dichotomous pull of the glorious in-breaking kingdom of heaven, where Jesus proclaims the character of kingdom dweller, and the brokenness of the present world, where sin still besets men and women. Perhaps the listeners of the day, as we do today, sat and pondered, “Am I in the kingdom of heaven or am I out?” Scot McKnight rightly identifies that the Beatitudes are a sweeping “manifesto of a kingdom way of life.” In…

Life Together offers a fresh and faithful vision for the life of discipleship in community. The introduction tells us that this book is a recording of Bonhoeffer’s learning’s from an experiment that took place in Finkenwalde, Germany (now Poland). From 1935 to 1937 Dietrich Bonhoeffer served as pastor, administrator, and teacher at an underground seminary there. He insisted that if seminarians were to learn about and lead within the Christian community, they must also enter into and learn the…

The film Storm Over Everest (2008) provided by Frontline Documentary focuses on many hardships climbers endured during this horrific storm in 1996. The focus on this film was to inform viewers of the measures that can happen when climbing an unpredictable mountain. Director David Breashears emphasis many people have diverse perceptions of the mountain. He states "for over 25 years, I have been making the trip to Everest and have stood on its summit five times". He, himself, was at base camp when…

A brave man by the name of Aron Ralston had went on a beautiful trip to Blue John Canyon to hike and climb thousand foot rocks. While on this very risky journey, he had fallen into a narrow ravine and a boulder had rolled and dropped onto his right hand crushing bones and all. Aron spent 127 hours trapped by this boulder trying to find a way to remove the boulder from his useless crushed hand. Unfortunately no strategy of his could loosen the boulder from its devastating spot to get free so Aron…

As I am someone that has no interest in mountain climbing, Kevin Macdonald’s interpretation of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s intrepid journey, ‘Touching the Void’, is a powerful film that is sure to turn heads and has definitely made me reconsider spending time mountain climbing. This docudrama follows a tragic incident that results in one man’s fight for survival after Joe and Simon’s descent up the unclimbed Peruvian Andes and ends with the audience questioning what they would do. To achieve…