South Pole

The shackleton Expedition was led by Ernest Shackleton. His dream was to reach the south pole. He was a veteran explorer, he had tried to make it the south pole before with Robert Scott. On That expedition they had to turn back before they made it to the south pole. He got the funds to take his own expedition he wanted to choose his crew. He choose his crew by putting out an ad to get people to volunteer. His ad stated what the expedition conditions would be. He said how there would be many dangers and coming back was not guaranteed. Twenty Eight men answered his ad. Some were from the military and other were doctors,carpenters or other professions. The Expedition began in 1914 and set sail from South Georgia, an island off the tip of…

dreams, but failed. Later, after a tragic accident, he decided to become a journalist. Before he died, he set sail for one last attempt at being the first person to ever cross the whole Antarctic. When Ernest Shackleton was younger, he had gone and “joined the merchant navy at the age of 16” (BBC). After his adventure with the leading Naval Officer and explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, he wanted to be the first man to step foot on the Antarctic. Shackleton had become sick while on his first…

On November 12, 1969, six women went on a ski-equipped LC-130 and were escorted to the pole. All six women were advised to jump off the plane at the exact same moment so that way all could claim to be one of the first women to reach the pole. Pam Young, Jean Pearson, Terry Terrell, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, and Kay Lindsay had made history for women by setting foot at the bottom of the world. For Jones, the oldest member of this group, this “served as an example that women could be more than…

• In what context should the Endurance expedition be analyzed? As a scientific endeavor? An entrepreneurial venture? An exercise in imperial opportunity? By what criteria should the expedition be evaluated? Given your answer to the preceding question, was it a success or a failure? The Endurance expedition fits in all three contexts of imperial, scientific and entrepreneurial. Ernest Shackleton used his journalist contacts in order to promote the expedition. Shackleton was not able to…

What were the causes of the different results of MAundsen and Scott expeditions to the south pole in 1911 In the peak of Heroic age of Antarctic discovery, a race to reach the center of the south pole was started by two exploreres. The first one Robert Falcon Scott, with the help of the Geographical Society of England, started planning his journey, without the pressure of the race until when in meltrne he received the telegram of Amundsen communicating his expendieron to the south pole.…

daily lives, and reinforced in ceremonies conducted in the hogans. Their belief is that they were put onto this earth to live lives of happiness, beauty, longevity. Hence, in order to fully comprehend the impact of the surrounding environment on the construction of hogans, we must first understand how the creation myths, intangible by themselves, are integrated in the tangibility of the geography of the land. Thus, there is no question that the creation myths are a part of the Diné history,…

family is from and visited family. I know a few Polish words, and hope to learn more. Every year, we have a traditional Polish Christmas time meal on Christmas eve. The meal consists of borscht, a traditional beet soup, pierogi, which are essentially Polish dumplings, a fish, because up until Christmas day they are not allowed to eat red meat. We enjoy watching sports like the Polish do, we like to watch basketball, and swimming. We even do this sports! My family also eats a lot of Polish foods.…

The pre-assessment for the magnet unit was a multiple choice/fill in the blank ten questions written assessment that students were asked to complete to the best of their abilities. This assessment was utilized to assess students’ general knowledge of magnets before beginning the unit. However, since the South Carolina State Standards do not require students to study magnets until second grade, I did not expect students to score high on this pre-assessment. After viewing the data collected…

beast, and Cinderella. However, the second the play started I knew I was about to watch a miraculous play and I was delighted with how well this play was produced from start to finish, Overall this play was an amazing way to put the entire audience into a holiday spirit and remind us what the holiday season is about Elf the Broadway Musical is about an orphan boy, Buddy, who crawls into Santa’s toy sack and is taken back to the North Pole where Buddy is raised by elves. Eventually, it is…

Frankenstein begins with the letters from Robert Walton to his sister Margaret about his expedition from Russia to the North Pole. He explains through these, that the ship got stuck in ice as far as the eye can see. The letters explore his deep loneliness and solitude as they sat and waited, and he longed for a worthy companion. He sat in his despair, until one day, he saw a man on the ice. The man, Victor Frankenstein, boarded the ship and answered Walton’s prayers of having a companion, and it…