Nome, Alaska

already been in effect in different areas in the world (Walker). Alaska has already implemented a program similar to this on a smaller scale. The Alaskan government made a great deal of money from Prudhoe Bay oil boom of the '70s (Walker). The people in office decided to invest their money into the citizens of Alaska. The Alaska Permanent Fund started sending annual checks to the residents of Alaska. The Native American residents of Alaska in regional areas organized a program similar to that…

memory of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Alaska is very vivid in my mind. I remember hearing about it first happening in the lower 48. To be more specific in Boston and then how it spread the flu to Philadelphia all spreading from shipyard to shipyard, boat to boat, person to person. On September 17, a ship docked at the Puget Sound Naval Station, which is near Seattle, Washington, where longshoremen loaded steamships that happened to be bound for Alaska. By this time most states were…

disease that is gradually killing people in Nome, Alaska. The author's purpose in writing in this story was to analyze and interpret many aspects in this story. Throughout this story, each of the chapters contents would hold information regarding the history of Alaska or how dogsledding became to be etc. For example, “writing in 1914, Hudson stuck believed that it would be rash to predict that the dog teams would ever be completely abandoned on the trails of Alaska...Eleven years later, the…

published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2003. This book is set in Nome, Alaska during the winter of 1925. At this time there was a deadly widespread outbreak of diphtheria that was threatening the city's people. Many were dying and Dr. Welch knew he needed to do something to help save these people. The one thing that could truly get rid of this disease was a serum but Dr. Welch was running out and the supply he ordered never made it to Nome. The fastest way to get new serum was to send a few…

In America every year, thousands gather in Alaska, to watch the greatest dog sled race in the world. 100 mushers start at the starting line in Anchorage, Alaska, and travel thousands of miles, to the finish line is Nome, Alaska. They are put out with many challenges along the way. Frost bite, below freezing temperatures, etc. etc. But somehow they all have a goal, the goal of being an idol to someone. To show people and kids, that it’s okay to go out there, when the chances are slim of surviving…

was. (nome alaska) The airplanes were shut down for the winter and the fastest and easiest way to get to Anchorage (the place with the medicine) was by dog sledding their. So balto and his dog sled team raced to Anchorage as fast as they could, but as soon as they headed out to Anchorage there was a horrible blizzard and the musher (Gunnar Kassan) could barely see in front of him. So Balto with his determination and bravery lead the sled team all the way to Anchorage and back to nome in…

do other things to their dogs including drag them, kick them, and throw them. The Musher make money using their sled dogs in the Iditarod race. In the race Mushers run the dogs through 17 different checkpoints over 1,000 miles in Alaska, from Anchorage to Nome. This is a very grueling race, ran over various terrains and treacherous weather conditions. Each team in the race start with 16 dogs. At the end of the race there can be as few as 5 dogs left at the finish line in order to win.…

Epidemic Eradicator A young mother sits in a hospital room at three in the morning. The room is quiet except for the murmur of voices down the hall, the beeping of monitors and the almost inaudible whir of the air conditioning. She sighs and looks at the little bed next to her chair. Her month old son lays there, IV lines and ventilation systems keeping him alive. This was the third time in his short life that he had alarmed Code Blue during his lengthy hospital stay. The mother had contracted…

where he lived. The vast wilderness of Alaska had always been his home. His childhood, filled with adventure and exploration into the forest he called home. He couldn't imagine a better place to grow up. His Dad would say “It only gets better Son”. Ian loved his parents more than anything. They would sit and reflect on the last day, talking about the day. Ian’s parents had Ian grow up traditionally, learning how to survive in the wilderness. Alaska was a place of Solitude. It…

the Paleo-eskimo people 4,500 years ago and then the Thule people 1,000 years ago, both originating from Siberia. The Siberian Husky was originally developed by the Chukchi people of the Chukchi Peninsula in eastern Siberia. They were brought to Nome, Alaska, in 1908 for sled-dog racing.…