Thin film

Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” is a book of mortality and consequences. In the spring of 1996, Krakauer took an assignment from Outside magazine to report on the industry of commercially guided, high-altitude climbing. He would later regret that decision for the rest of his life. Eight people on his expedition died, either from freezing to death or falling. There are a multitude of health effects that can cause harm to humans at the extreme altitude and temperatures that Everest holds, as…

A city with an area measuring 3,255 miles squared and lying on the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, Alaska captured my breath and left me speechless. For some Juneau is a venue to buy trinkets and take family pictures for the Christmas card. For others Juneau is a place to hunt vicious black bears or reel in an Artic Char. For me Juneau, Alaska is significant for it allowed me to strengthen in my faith and believe God created the Earth we live on. Foremost, the sky was foggy, and the air was…

Number the stars is a wonderful book about Ellen and Annemarie, 2 ten-year-old girls that are best friends. They go through a lot and their bond only gets stronger when Nazis show up and Annemarie has to protect Ellen because she is a Jew. Even though they go through so many troubles, it only makes them stronger. Number the stars somehow pulled you into itself, for example, when the Nazis boarded the boat, I felt scared. Not just worried but actually scared. I was scared for the safety of…

A brave man by the name of Aron Ralston had went on a beautiful trip to Blue John Canyon to hike and climb thousand foot rocks. While on this very risky journey, he had fallen into a narrow ravine and a boulder had rolled and dropped onto his right hand crushing bones and all. Aron spent 127 hours trapped by this boulder trying to find a way to remove the boulder from his useless crushed hand. Unfortunately no strategy of his could loosen the boulder from its devastating spot to get free so Aron…

Anatoli Boukreev is one of the most controversial climbers in the book, Into Thin Air. his decision making was questionable at best. However his mountaineering skills were crucial to the survival of many. His love for the mountain couldn't be matched and everyone knew that. Anatoli was an experienced climber who had already made it to the top of the highest point on earth. Anatoli Boukreev was another guide with Scott Fisher's group. He had previously climbed the mountain without supplemental…

Person vs self Into thin air A Lot of people on “Into Thin Air” story faced person vs person conflict because they wanted to reach the top. Some people received injuries, and even in a critical condition, but they’re still determined to reach the top, but in the end goes down and tries again next time because they wish to reach the top of the summit and be known as one of the people who climbed and reached the top of Everest. Doug Hansen is a good example for this because he tried to climb…

Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest. The youngest person ever to climb Everest was a 13 year old American boy. A Japanese woman was 73 when she climbed Everest for the second time, and she was the oldest person to do this. There have been over 230 deaths on Everest. People should not rescue mountain climbers who put themselves at risk. First of all, rescuers can also die or get seriously injured (not just the climber) if they are trying to…

Should people have the right to demand emergency services when they put themselves at risk? If you are warned about attempting something dangerous and you do it anyway, that is stupidity. Rescue services should not have to risk their own lives because you decided that it would be fun to cliff dive. First of all, why would you put your life on the line for some five minute fun? I don`t understand what is so fun about risks anyway. I believe it is ignorance. To begin ask yourself, if you are…

Imagine yourself standing on top of a mountain, feeling the breeze hit your face and flowing through your hair. Imagine yourself feeling the weight and burden of everything that’s ever happened to you suddenly disappear as you look across the mountain top, viewing the world from a much clearer sight than anything you’ve ever seen before. Imagine, just imagine, yourself knowing that you accomplished climbing a mountain all on your own, that everything you did in the past lead up to this very…

Throughout the United States’ participation in World War II, the American film industry was called upon by the federal government to produce film after film to inform the public of the events overseas and to emotionally influence the American people in order to keep them invested in the war efforts. From films of live combat during the Battle of the Midway, to cartoons promoting the donation of resources like rubber for military purposes, to dramas of romance between a soldier and his lover back…