Owens Valley

or junk food a lot of older children would choose the junk food any day over healthy food. As a result of them being raised to thinking that eating poorly and not exercising is acceptable. Ann Cooper, CEC, director of food services for the Boulder Valley School District touches this subject, “If you’re expecting kids in high school who spent 10years thinking that chicken nuggets is a food group to all of a sudden embrace salad bars…It won’t happen without education and time” (qtd by Kisberg…

Anubis (Anup) and Thoth (Djehuty) are both deities within the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) pantheon. As such they have similarities but also many stark contrasts, beyond one being canine and the other being avian. I’ve chosen to explore the similarities and differences between the two from a historical, but also modern perspective. As an example of a similarity they are both involved with the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. In this ceremony the heart of the deceased is weighed against the feather…

Dear Y Camp family, One of the greatest feelings in life is when you’re laying in the cool grass looking up at a crystal clear sky with a million stars. Lighting bugs make the darkness sparkle and move. The night air unsullied and fresh, frogs croak, barn owls call back and forth to each other, and cicadas sing in the blackness. The moon casts shadows from the colossal hundred year old surrounding oak trees, your belly is filled with M&M’s and campfire cooked s 'mores. You can feel a sense of…

The film Toxic Soup by Rory Owen Delaney speaks to how everyday Americans fight to keep their blood, water and air safe from pollution. This video shows how corporations such as DuPont, Bayer, Ashland oil and Global contributed to polluting their local environments. The first company that the video talks about is DuPont, which is a chemical plant located in West Virginia. DuPont was found to be contaminating water near their plant with C8. The C8 found in the water was known to cause…

California experiences a wide variety of natural disasters including drought, wild fires, mudslides, and various other impactful disasters. The biggest one that California encountered over time and time again is the droughts they get from various weather influences. The definition of a drought extends across various definitions, but the main one is described as “A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.” Definitions on drought do vary depending on…

delweiss, at first glance, appeared to be nothing more than a natural occurring valley, buried at the bottom of some cliffs, but looking closer, gentle curls of smoke floated up above a cluster of pines. “Come on, then. Down we plunge,” said Finn. “You don’t mean jump…Do you?” Grace stared back with alarm. “I can’t!” Finn hooted with laughter. “Of course not! We’ll use the stairs,” prancing through a patch of wildflowers, Finn revealed a spiraling set of stairs cut into the side of the cliff…

prominent of them. EARLY LIFE: Hi, Dolly! Rebecca Parton came into this world in a little cabin near Pittman Center, Tennessee, on the banks of the Little Pigeon River, on January 19, 1946. Robert Lee Parton Sr. (1921–2000) and Avie Lee Caroline (née Owens; 1923–2003) had twelve children, of whom she is the fourth. Parton's maternal great-great-grandmother, Rebecca (Dunn) Whitted, is the source of her middle name. "Lee" Parton was a sharecropper and subsequently had a small tobacco farm and some…

Since the start of the twentieth century, changes have happened quicker than ever before. A man living in the early 1900s would barely recognize most of the innovations used in the late 1900s. A soldier fighting near the end of the First World War would not be able to comprehend the technology used from the end of the Second World War. Technological advancements due to war positively influenced today’s society. With the aid of literary pieces; constructive changes due to wars in fields such as…

Was the New Deal of the nineteen thirties a failure or a success? The question is difficult to answer without the knowledge of life without the New Deal. It also depends on what your definition of success is. People form their opinions from the sources they get such as media, book, and newspapers. The Great Depression occurred on October 29, 1929, a day known as “Black Tuesday” when the stock market crashed. During this time the banks failed, the nation’s money supply diminished, and companies…

Katarzyna Zdrojewska, FLN5_IB, index no. gd22943 1 Glencore plc is an Anglo–Swiss multinational company. It was established in 1975 under the name of Marc Rich & Co. in Switzerland. In 1994 company has been rebranded into Glencore. In 2012 Glencore acquired Xstrata, a large british company, thereby making the biggest takeover that took place in mining industry. Less than two years after the merger Glencore have announced that the Xstrata brand will be phased out. Currently the company is…