Operation Snow White

Imagine a place where everywhere you look, you see beauty, everywhere you smell is crisp fresh air. Everywhere surrounding you are ginormous mountains with snow slowly melting and one huge blue body of water. There are trees all over the place, and everywhere you look you see nature and all of God’s creations. This fascinating place is Lake Tahoe, in Nevada. Lake Tahoe is absolutely one of the most gorgeous places I have ever been. I have traveled there many times since I was a little kid till…

Dr. Crimmins raised several alarming question during his talk on climate change in Arizona and the Southwestern part of the United States. The most prominent question was how will climate change impact agricultural practices? With the annual average temperature rising, and the type of precipitation changing, Earth is facing a climate change. Ultimately, Dr. Crimmins brought up the question will we be able to adjust our agricultural practices to compensate for climate change? Dr. Crimmins…

Lounging in a chair drinking ice cold water, thinking of how nice winter will feel when it approaches or waiting for your car to warm up, thinking about how nice the summer sun will feel. We've all been here and thought the same way. We don't always realize it, but our way of living changes as the seasons change. What we wear and the temperature are two very noticeable changes. But there are also many different changes to go along with those two. Throughout this writing, you will read about the…

Going Home Winter is disgusting in cities. Grey buildings blend with the equally grey sky, snow in the streets melts and the muddy puddles are so deep and big you’d have to hover for your feet to stay dry, even if you have the best shoes in the world. Traffic is terrible and taxis are almost impossible to find. I should have been looking forward to leaving the city for the holidays for the first time since I moved here twelve years ago. But I wasn’t. I was dreading it. I looked at my reflection…

was about to begin would be a long and terribly bitter time. So I shut the door behind myself and started out on my adventure, walking slowly, to take in as much as I could. I noticed that overnight the ground was covered in beautiful shimmering white snow, so perfect and immaculate, it almost seemed like a waste to tread over and ruin the lovely display over my property. While I continued further into the cold I looked out at my pond and saw that it has iced over completely and fully frozen,…

Pond Hockey and Civic Duty Whether at a stadium with referees and organized periods, or a pick up game with friends on the pond behind my house, I have always enjoyed hockey. However, each of these two styles of play is quite different. A good example of this is when the goalie covers the puck by their goal. In professional hockey, the players are always taught that until the referee blows the whistle, they are to jab their stick at the goalie and his glove in an attempt to knock the puck out…

Introduction: Ski jumping is one of the competitive sports with the Olympian ideal of going faster, jumping further and leaping higher than the opposition (Muller 269). However, sometimes accidents happen. For example, Thomas Morgenstern crashed during a trial round for the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Bad Mitterndorf. Later, he was hospitalized with skull injuries and a bruised lung (The Associated Press). Then, why did this accident happen? What influenced the performance of Morgenstern and…

Snow Fall The snow fell gracefully onto the ground flake by flake. As my family packed each bag into the car until they pressed tightly against the rear hatch, I tilted my head back towards the sun attempting to catch each fraill flake with my tongue. My entire family piled into the car slowly as I continued to stand motionless in the snow. Finally, forty minutes later when every mitten and hat had managed to make its way into the car, summoned by my parents who were anxious to get home, I slid…

What is driving cross country? Is it fun? How do I do it? To basically answer all these questions, cross country driving is when you and preferably someone else goes from one destination to another in a car. But the trip there is the memorable part of the experience. In this paper I will be talking about cross country driving and giving you tips on how to do it, how to have a good time, and how to make it memorable. When driving cross country it is all about the experiences you have during the…

Cross-trainers Combine elements of treadmills, stair-climbers, cycles, and cross-country ski machines. Some machines include arm resistance to work both the upper and lower body. Like ski machines, they require some coordination and may tire you faster than other machines, but they give a very thorough aerobic workout along with some resistance training. Workouts Heard of the 7-minute workout? How about Tabata? Both are just a few minutes. The trick is, you work harder than you thought…