Nome, Alaska

at Walden. Although his goal was to find the true meaning of life, which he thought was predetermined and meant to be discovered by the world, the outcomes and consequences of his journey proved to be naturalist as well. Once McCandless arrived in Alaska, he began to face the struggles of life without certainty of food and shelter. When he found the abandoned bus, he began to keep track of the days and wrote quotes about life promoting his transcendental beliefs. However, nature began to take…

Alaskan Native History Alaskan Native Indians are people that migrated to North America approximately 1,300 years ago from the Eurasian continent. They had developed intricate cultural lines and pioneered advanced methods for surviving the fridged Arctic climate using nothing but what was available in nature. For this reason, the Alaskan Natives developed a deep cultural bond with the land that was also rich with materials useless to them such as gold and oil. This situation along with abundant…

Alaska is a very hard place to navigate.Why is is so hard to navigate?It can be very hard for many reasons.We are going to go over snow,ice,And travel on foot.It is very hard to navagate in alsaka anyway you try to. Why is it hard to navigate alaska's geography?Alaska's geography is difficult to explore because snow and ice and travel on foot.Its hard because snow is hard to see things in and hard to see where you are going.Ice is hard b ecause the lake could freeze and you have to navagate…

Have you heard of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill? In Alaska there were many boats being transported through Alaskan waters and had little to no safety regulations. In 1989, Exxon Valdez oil company had the biggest oil spill in the United States. The spill had a huge impact on wildlife and led to many safety laws and regulations. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the worst oil spill yet in U.S. history. There were millions of boats going through the Alaskan waters and had no safety restrictions. People…

visitors come hoping they will get the chance to see one of these famous wolves. But recently, the wolf population in Denali National Park has been surrounded by controversy. Denali National Park along with members of the public have been fighting the Alaska Board of Game to establish a hunting free buffer zone along park boundaries in effort to maintain the wolf population that has recently began to fall.…

The Edenshaw Family is just one of the many famous carving families found on the Northwest Coast. The Edenshaw family is from the Haida Gwaii Nation. Albert Edward Edenshaw (1810-1854) was the first Chief Edenshaw of the Dadens after his family moved to Kung in 1853, he built a big house with two ornately carved frontal posts that resembled bears. He was commissioned to build a totem pole for a chief thereby launching his career in carving (citation). Following tradition, Albert Edward Edenshaw…

responsible for overseeing flight operations, maintenance and engineering, labor relations and customer service. That is a big job to have considering Alaska Airlines is the seventh largest airline in the United States based on passenger traffic. The airline carries more passengers between Alaska and the lower 48 states than any other airline (Alaska Airlines, 2016). The impressive, young fleet of aircraft includes 150 Boeing 737 aircraft and 52 Bombardier Q400 owned aircraft. The airline has…

three life rules to remember. 1. You are kind, you are smart, and you are important. This is a quote from the movie, The Help (2011). I have changed the quote to be grammatically correct. Many of my students very low self-esteem. The studies indicate Alaska Natives and American Indians have suicide rates 3 times the national rate of all races combined. (Herne, 2014) My students know that I am someone they can talk to if they need to about suicide. The district requires all staff members to…

John Green’s Looking for Alaska "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” (Denis Waitley). The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about a formerly lonely boy, Miles also known as Pudge, who is the protagonist and his ultimate goal is to seek a Great Perhaps. He arrives at Culver Creek Boarding School where he is immediately swept away and pulled into a fantasy by the antagonist, Alaska Young.…

Symposium held at Rasmusen Hall, hosted by Maria Williams on November 18, 2016. Professor Maria Williams taught Alaska Native Perspectives A206 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm until 5:15 pm. She spoke of many subjects that pertain to the history of Alaska and the impacts of colonial contact. These impacts included: Segregation, Conversion to Christianity, Statehood in 1959, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, just to name a few. Then there was The Comity Agreement of 1874.…