The Discovery of Gold in Native American History Au 79 is the chemical symbol for an attractive and highly valuable metal of gold. The discovery and use of gold is reported as far back as 5,500 years. Gold has been discovered and mined on all the continents and presently it is estimated that all of the gold that has been refined “could be placed in a cube measuring 20 meters on a side” (Jefferson Lab, n.d.). Gold was used by many early civilizations as a trading material and a symbol of wealth. In the history of Native Americans the discovery of gold on their land caused great tragedies and devastation and became a significant factor of Native American history.
On April the 10th 1912, the titanic set sail from Southampton. She was carrying 2340 people. After the Titanic left Southampton she hit an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean causing the great ship to sink. More than 1300 people died that tragic night. In this essay I will explain how and why the Titanic’s maiden voyage was such a disaster using; speed and distance, reaction to the iceberg, lifeboats and rescue and finally overconfidence.
Native American tribes, who once lived off the Columbia, were forced to move on and find a new way of life. This dam has caused a great deal of controversy, and the real question is whether or not the building of this dam has been beneficial. The Columbia River is one of the biggest rivers in the US. This river is over one thousand and two hundred miles long with a discharge of about 265,000 cubic feet per second at the mouth of the river. The Columbia drops almost two thousand and seven hundred feet from British Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.
AStudy Figure 7 (a) Using Figure 7 and your own knowledge, explain why some places have a high level of landslide and avalanche hazard risk. Landslides and avalanches are one of the world’s major natural hazard type, they cost the US $3.5 billion per year in repair damage. They cause between 25 and 50 deaths in the US each year Hazard: A received natural event which has the potential to threaten both life and property. Landslide: the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff. Avalanche: a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside.
On the 5th day a cold front had come in and temperatures dropped making it freezing, though the waves were calm something wasn’t right. Last minute, the lookout crew sees an iceberg alerts the captain and by the time the captain tells the steering person he turns and the boat is scraped flooding compartment by compartment eventually sinking the boat. There was so many things wrong with this event; several factors could have prevented the sinking of the boat and saved so many lives from that night. The titanic was built in March 31, 1909(A night to remember.) The boat was made of steel.
Alaska may have the most severe weather of the entire country considering that temperatures plummet below zero regularly. Blizzards are common and bring several feet of snow whenever they strike. Nights can last an excess of twenty-four hours in some areas of Alaska, forcing people to take shelter in their homes. The bitter cold is dangerous enough, but it also brings other factors to watch out for. Black ice is well known in Alaska for forming a thin sheet of ice on the road making it extremely dangerous for drivers.
Rogue Waves For centuries, mariners have spread stories about giant sudden waves which appeared out of nowhere without warning which were strong enough to capsize even the mightiest and largest ships. Several vessels—such as the S.S. Waratah, the M.S. Munchen, and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald—were all rumored to have been sunk by rogue waves (Walsh par. 3). Further, rogue waves have been blamed for ripping the bow off of a Norwegian freighter near the tip of South Africa in 1974, almost capsizing the Queen Elizabeth in 1942 off the coast of Greenland, striking the Queen Elizabeth H in 1995, and for swamping military aircraft carriers and tearing tankers in half (McDonald A21).
Assignment #3.1 “Determining Causes and Effects-Draft Version” “Determining the Causes and Effects of Water Pollution in Lake Huron” By: Maricel N. Johnson November 28, 2012 Eng 115 (Tuesday Class) Professor: Michael Hunter Lake Huron is the third largest of the lakes with 3,540 feet of water, with it’s average depth is 195 feet and with maximum depth of 750 feet. The Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, Erie, Ontario, Superior and Huron are our largest freshwater system. Lake Huron contains many wildlife and is in danger of being polluted. This pollution is harmful to fish, wildlife animals, and to humans of the region. Determining the cause and effects of water pollution in Lake Huron contributes to finding solutions for cleaning up our waterways and improving public health.
What factors could have prevented the sinking of the Titanic? Synopsis: The RMS Titanic was the largest passenger steamship of the early 1900’s. This ship, owned by the White Star Liners, and was deemed to be “unsinkable”. However this assumption wasn’t long lived, when the Titanic RMS sunk on its very first voyage, from England to New York, America, early on 15th April 1912 at 2:20 am, when it collided with an unseen iceberg. The sinking of the Titanic is a minor mystery to the world as to what really happened that night. There were many theories, evaluations and assumptions as to why the Titanic sunk, theories that were extracted from the facts and others that revolved around predictions, myths and curses.
Diary Entry 2: I am a white and I am on my way right now to find some gold my chances are slim and I know it but I am very frightened that the natives will capture me, the time period 1840-1860,, which are probably low, indicate that 362 emigrants were killed by Indians and 426 Indians were killed by emigrants. This makes me very nervous knowing that natives in the past have actually killed whites. On my way I found that there were many rotten animals which I believe was buffalo there was sixty million buffalos before the whites came and took land. Food was scares and we have to stop early just to start a fire; it took two or three bushels of chips to heat a meal because chips burned so rapidly I was very sad that we could not move on faster. Wagons