World Gold Council

1. In Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, a little boy named Max, after dressing up as a wolf and causing trouble, is sent to his room without supper by his mother. Max dreams that a forest and an ocean have materialized in his room, and he proceeds to sail for “almost over a year” until he encounters an island full of wild things (Sendak). There, he becomes the beasts’ ruler, but loneliness and the smell of food eventually call him back to his room, where he finds his dinner waiting for…

The story “To Build a Fire” is about a man’s attempt to travel across the Yukon in temperatures as low as 75 degrees below zero. In the beginning the man is trying to get back to a camp where there are other people, but complications in his journey made that not possible. Soon after, three foot of snow had fallen but despite the extreme cold temperatures, he wasn’t too worried about the weather yet. He didn’t realize how serious the situation he was in was, his face and fingers were numb, but as…

The author of the novel ´Never Cry Wolf´ ,Farley Mowat, uses many instances to convey the point that the wolves of the great north were portrayed as regardless savages that kill for sport, and that this was false and they are peaceful equalizers of the populations to keep the herds healthy. Originally published in 1963, Mowat sets out on his journey after being given honorary doctorates, he arrives at were his study is supposed to begin in the winter of 1948 and it carries on into 1949. In these…

The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition was historically important because these men were the first people, not Indians, to explore much of Utah gaining information on the people that they met and the land itself. The Dominguez-Escalante Journal it the accounting of the expedition traveling thru Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. Father Dominguez and Father Escalante’s party included “twelve Spanish colonials and two Indians”. The Mexican Government enlisted a catholic priest, Francisco Dominguez to…

Death in Frigid Alaska In The Call of the Wild written by Jack London, set during the Alaskan Klondike gold rush of 1897, death is a common theme throughout the book. The Call of the Wild is a story about Buck, a farm dog, who is kidnapped from his home in Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled dog up north in Alaska for the Klondike gold rush. In The Call of the Wild there are many hardships these dogs must face in the Alaskan wilderness. Some of the hardships they had to go through…

1. Hi my name is Taylor and I chose to study the serve water crisis happening in California. This water crisis has a start date of 2012 but in reality has been going on for much longer than that. 2. The drought in California isn’t just a natural disaster but is also a man made one in another critical sense by capitalist governments largely beholden to giant energy cooperation 's refusal to seriously address the issue. Since the states founding in 1850 water policies have never been carried…

First, Buck and White Fang both save their masters. For example, Buck saves John Thornton from drowning and wins him $1,600 so he can strike rich in the Klondike, and White Fang saves Jack Conroy when the gold mine caves in on him and helps him strike rich when gold dust is revealed on White Fang’s paws. Since Buck and White Fang both save their masters and help make them rich, the dogs are the same in that way. Second, the dogs were in different places when their masters were attacked…

Being in extreme environment can be dangerous but using your knowledge is the best solution out of this situation. This is what the characters in LIfe of Pi by Yann Martel and “The Story of Keesh” by Jack London did. In both stories, The Life of Pi and “ The Story of Keesh”, the characters use their intelligence, knowledge and good judgement to survive in extreme environments. In “The Story of Keesh ", Keesh shows many survival skills in his village in the Arctic. For example, to the villagers…

and Darwinism. Stepping out and making a difference remains one of the most difficult things to do in the world. White Fang develops this at an early age. He starts out in a cave as a young cub, not knowing what to expect from life, he steps out and leaves his cave. Once he goes out into the real world, there is no certainty on what to expect. That one act of stepping out into the real world as…

to fall drastically on ice, one will also have to try not getting killed by a vicious Alaskan animal on your journey through the frigid place called Alaska. The geography of Alaska makes it difficult to explore and settle both during the Klondike, Gold Rush, and today because of: walking on one's two feet throughout the travels, walking…