Canyon. Today, scientists still do not agree on how the canyon was made. Another fact about the Grand Canyon is that the walls of the Grand Canyon contain prehistoric rocks. Some of the rocks are from two million years ago (“Let’s take a look at Arizona”). Something else many people would not expect is that surprisingly people have lived in the Grand Canyon for 5,000 years or more, some of these people were Indians. The Grand Canyon is frequently visited. Researchers estimate that around five…
In today’s world computerized career information systems are very important, as students rely in technology to learn about career development. Two of the career information systems that I had the opportunity to explore are Arizona Career Information System (AzCIS) and Iseek careers. Both systems present useful information for students who are interested in exploring furthering their education or interested in entering the workforce. AzCIS and Iseek systems are easy to read and understand and…
“Research shows that most Mexican immigrants come to the United States with a strong sense of hope and self-determination, and that even when they encounter challenges, they are optimistic that their prospects will be more favorable than they could ever be in Mexico.” (“Why We Stay": Immigrants ' Motivations for Remaining in Communities Impacted by Anti-Immigration Policy.) Joshua Davis, author of the non-fiction story: Spare Parts -Four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for…
Cody is known here at Northern Arizona University as Coach Hodgeson. Coach Hodgeson is the head strength and conditioning coach for the university. He is the main strength coach for the football team and oversees all his assistants and graduate assistants for the other sports here at NAU. He began his education journey at Pima Community College for the first two years where he earned his Associates of Science degree. Cody then had a brief stint at Arizona State University in athletics for…
its long established and more robust from the larger Arizona State University in many ways. Most notably is the cadet to instructor ratio. ASU currently has multiple instructors’ per cadet rear group, while GCU currently only has 2 instructors for all four year groups. This unfortunate cadet to instructor ratio is not conducive to the student’s educational needs. This weakness is currently being address through both the PMS at out parent university as well as looking for other means to…
Reinvigorating NASA with more money will inspire kids in classrooms all around the United States. They will look up to the heroes who were able to step foot on a different planet. Equivalently, to students who grew up in the late 60’s and 70’s when the US first landed on the moon. Scott Grillo (2011) comments in a USA Today piece about how fortunate he is being a kid during the time of the Apollo programs. He explains how inspiring it was seeing the frontier of possible be pushed, and how it…
Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846, The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. In The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846, The American Southwest Under Mexico, Dr. David J. Weber takes readers on a well-versed journey through what would become much of the United States’ held, American southwest. After completing the enormous task of pulling together, sifting through, and analyzing for veracity and applicability, literally dozens of…
a sampling of what visitors might experience at the Arizona Historical Society’s (AHS) Arizona History Museum’s Arizona Mining Hall exhibit in Tucson, Arizona, adjacent to the University of Arizona campus. According to the AHS website, the society was “established by an Act of the First Territorial Legislature on November 7, 1864” (arizonahistoriclsociety.org). It goes on to state that those who drafted the code of laws governing the Arizona Territory understood the importance of preserving…
Final Essay When most people hear racial tension, when talking about American history, they automatically jump to the south and the civil war. Many people do not take in to account the effect that rapid westward expansion had on the American peoples views of other races. In the Essay Reconstructing race, author Elliot West try’s to illustrates those effects to us. He describes to us the events that took place and how the civil war and reconstruction after the civil war was effect by both the…
The developers of the Yuma project had to overcome several challenges before the project was built. Natural hazards and other difficulties made it hard to achieve the goal of building the Yuma project. The natural catastrophes that occurred at that time made detractors of the project criticise it even further. “Floods constituted a major hazard for the Yuma project.” They damaged the project several times, while it was built, being “fed by rapidly melting snow” in spring and early summer and…