Sierra Nevada

merely impact where people chose to live. Either way, geography affects the people. Mountain ranges such as the Andes and Sierra Madre have vertical climate zones. Each of the five climate zones provide different resources, giving Latin America lots of crops and livestock. The climate zones are Tierra Caliente, Tierra Templada, Tierra Fría, Tierra Helada, and Tierra Nevada. Tierra Caliente is the lowest to the ground, and people can grow bananas, sugarcane, and rice. Tierra Templada is the…

discovery of gold as he panned. We all know Ogden, well back than it was called Fort Benecia. After that it was named Brownsville. Later it was named what we all know it as Ogden. He then became ill and died November 12, 1849 at the age of 32 in Sierra Nevada. He was then buried at Benecia,…

Politics There a many current NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Association) missions taking place or being researched. For those who may not know exactly what NASA is, it is a government agency that was started by Congress in 1958. NASA’s main purpose is to explore space and aeronautics, or research about flight. There are four Exploration Missions taking place. One being DLRE (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment), MER (Mars Exploration Rover- Opportunity), Mars Odyssey, and MRO (Mars…

During the winter of 1846 and 1847, the Donner Party, a large group of settlers headed to California, became trapped in the Sierra Nevada for months with few supplies. As food became scarce and tempers shortened under the brutal winter weather, the settlers resorted to cannibalism to soothe their aching stomachs. Modern renditions of the Donner Party’s plight, such as the movie Donner Pass (Donner Pass, 2011), emphasize the occurrences of cannibalism within the Donner camp. Firsthand…

California in order to attract more settlers, but it was also a path he himself had never taken. Among those who decided to follow that “shortcut” were the Graves, the Donner party. That decision would eventually be costly as they were stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains lacking supplies. Many people die from different causes of hypothermia, /hunger (mostly men),the lack of food and water pushes the party to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. They were forced to eat their death for…

Ahmet Cevher Sancaktutar Arthur Easlon World History date George Donner was born in North Carolina in March 7th 1784.George Donner had three brothers and three sisters altogether He lived in Kentucky. Later he moved to Sangamon County, Illinois. In hopes of a new life, Donner wanted to move to California. In April, 1846 Donner , Tamsen (his third wife) and his five daughters, later, his brother, Jacob Donner, Elizabeth ( Jacob Donner’s wife) and their seven child also joined. James Reed was the…

“The sum total of all thoughts and intuitions, myths and beliefs, ideas and inspirations brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness” is best defined as ethnosphere by Wade Davis, in his introduction to Wayfinders (2). He establishes the direction of this travel log with the introduction of culture: a dynamic and complex system that characterizes societies and from it flows people’s identity. As Davis immerses the reader into a series of indigenous people groups…

right above fading into darkness and the whole image is masterfully printed to wring every bit of emotion from it. Other classic Adams photos harness modernist abstraction to sentimental scenes in much the same way. In a 1944 shot “Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California” for example, the tiny figure of a horse is caught in a slant of sunlight at the bottom of the composition. Behind it rises to hills and snowy mountains contrast with the sky have a hint of fluffy…

Arctic tundra The Arctic Tundra is found nearly everywhere in the North. They are found mostly in the arctic. The categorization of a tundra falls between a taiga and the ice caps. The zone is controlled by the extremes in the weather. In the arctic tundra there are two seasons: winter and summer. In the summer, the sun is present almost 24 hours a day. This amount of sun only warms up the tundra to a range of about 3°C to 12°C. In the winter, the lighting conditions are flipped. For example,…

Important Wild West Town: Bibliography on Graniteville During the Gold Rush There is a story that says “two Miners were able to get 17,000 dollars worth of gold in only 7 days” (PBS). In the 1800’s Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which Created a surge of people want to come in the search for the gold filled quartz veins. Graniteville stands as a notable example of the Wild West. “Gold was discovered in Sacramento in 1848”(PBS). Graniteville,…