Mount Whitney

climbed several mountains, including Mount Shasta, Whitney, and Rainier. One special event to John was his marriage to Louie Wanda Strentzel in 1880. Soon after that came his first daughter Wanda and then his second daughter Helen. After his second daughter was born he started to work for Picturesque California. Many of John’s writing about Yosemite helped with it getting established as a national park. He also campaigned for Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Mount Rainier to become national parks. In…

Compare and Contrast Essay There is a great deal of things you can differentiate from the Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank and Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. These two books are similar because they take place in the same time frame but different regions when the world was undergoing World War II. These two books document the story of two families that were affected by this time. One distinct part of these two books was that both families…

California California has lots of beaches and fun boardwalks to walk down. It is a great place to vacation or live. It is a tourist destination making it very packed full of people in most cities. According to Don DeLillo “California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom.” This quote pretty much sums up California. Some even consider California a lifestyle, because of the adventure you’ll find, and the dreams you deem impossible…

new carrier-based fighter plane in 1938. The Chance Vought Aircraft Engineering department submitted two designs in hopes of securing the contract, which were the V-166A and V-166B. The latter made the cut due to its utilization of a new Pratt & Whitney air cooled, two-staged…

The Civil War landmarked the defining moment when the tension and anger between the Northern and Southern people had reached a point of no return. Until 1861, the radical abolitionism, failed compromises, and industrial differences in America pitted the North and the South against each other in a sectional battle for social, political, and economic power. Thus igniting the spark of the Civil War between the American people. The stark differences in the Northern and the Southern territories…

about George Washington. Who was George Washington? Well he was the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. He was the guy that proved our system could work and he held everything together. George was 1 out of 4 of the presidents on Mount Rushmore. He also opposed political parties and wanted to build us up financially. The first Vice President was John Adams from Massachusetts who later became the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Adams served…

TJ Trump 2/9/16 Why Buffalo Soldiers were chosen to protect the first National Parks, 1886-1914. From 1886 to 1914, the Buffalo Soldiers assisted with the protection of the National Parks, in particular Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks. However, there is little information describing much about their service as park rangers there other than the benefits they brought to the parks. There is no clear reason as to why these soldiers were sent to guard the prestigious parks, instead of the…

FASTING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT A Common Discipline The discipline of fasting is a practice that is commonly misunderstood. The connotations that surround this spiritual discipline leave many people to view fasting in one of two extremes: something that is hazardous to one’s health, or something for those in a seemingly unreachable spiritual state. However, the reality is neither of these. To quote John Wesley, “Some have exalted fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have…