I became attached to the characters, and felt their life’s to be important when they were trapped on top of the mountain. I would really recommend, I found it entertaining, suspenseful, informative, and fun. • Memorable quotes o “None of them imagined that horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. Nobody suspected that by the end of that long day, every minute would matter.” pg. 11 o “Following Sikhdar’s discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained” pg.
After 18 months and 4,000 miles they headed back. Both explorers took separately routes. They finally returned September 1806 they had collected people, plants, animals, and the geography to inspire the nation to move westward. -Pikes expedition, This paragraph explains how even though Jefferson sent out Lewis and Clark for an exploration, Jefferson sent out more explorers and one of them was named Zebulon Pike led by 2 expeditions between 1805 and 1807, when traveling through what is now the state of Colorado he found a snow caped mountain and he called it Grand Peak. Today this mountain is known as Pikes Peak.
Krakauer is a talented writer and his ability to create an interesting story may have come from his crazy life. Born on 1954 in Corvallis, Oregon, he began to do many adventurous activities with his father, including rock climbing at the age of 8. After his graduation from Hampshire College in 1976, he traveled to southeastern Alaska to hike Devil's Thumb. His attempt to hike the coast is even mentioned in another one of his famous books Into The Wild. In 1992 he published his first great collection of essays called Eiger Dreams.
In Alaska I’d put up a hairy new route on the Mooses Tooth, and pulled off a solo ascent of the Devils Thumb that involved spending three weeks alone on a remote ice cap. I’d done a number of fairly extreme ice climbs in Canada and Colorado” (27-28). b. Krakauer has had lots of previous experiences climbing mountains. One thing I got confused with in this story is the excess amount of mountaineering terms throughout. Krakauer has been climbing for a long time, so he must know everything about it and I trust that he uses the terms correctly, therefore his writing is very credible.
Hockey players dream of winning the Stanley Cup since they were little kids and now they have a chance. Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin both wear the letter C on their jersey and have both been to post season four times since they entered the league. In the post season Crosby has recorded 30 goals and 52 assists = 82 points in the 62 games he has played, while Ovechkin has only recorded 25 goals and 25 assists = 50 points in 37 games he has played (nhl.com). Crosby has taken home the Stanley Cup one time in the four years he has been to the post season, while Ovechkin has never made it to the Cup finals. This explains why Crosby has more games played than Ovechkin has because Crosby has had more success than Ovechkin has in the playoffs.
Knight was given the nickname, “The General” by Dick Vitale because the he was highly educated in military history. Indiana reached the Final Four in 1973, losing to UCLA. In 1976, the Hoosiers were undefeated at 32-0 and won championship, beating Michigan 86-68 in the title game. Knight’s Hoosiers also won championships in 1981. When Indiana won the 1979 NIT championships, Knight led the U.S. national team to a gold metal in the Olympic Games as coach of the Michael Jordan team.
While on his journey, he was held captive for over ten years by the Xiongnu, and found out much information about them. Upon escaping, he continued his journey and reported back to the Han Emperor all the information that he found about the different countries. Before finishing his thirteen year journey, Zhang encountered a number of societies ranging from agriculturally advantaged to militaristic, some of which include Bactria, Ferghana, and Yue-Chi (Yuezhi). He used the information recorded about these places, for the benefit of the Chinese. Zhang’s travels and reports not only gave the Chinese the advantage of having a more knowledgeable and powerful dynasty against the Xiongnu, but it also paved the way for the beginnings of the Silk Road.
A monopoly is where you can set prices almost everywhere you want, and there is no other competition. This is referred to as predatory pricing, where companies charge a price lower than production costs. These companies believe their competitors can’t afford the loses. Cable companies don’t worry about competition due to the protection they enjoy from the government. The cable companies get away with this by claiming they do not have competition, cities award them the contract by providing coverage, even though they may not have the lowest price.
SETTING This book follows the travels of Chris McCandless mostly in the western portion of the United States, as well as in Alaska, Mexico, and Virginia. The events in the book span various years but most important events take place in the 1980s and 1990s. Alex Supertramp / Chris McCandless Chris McCandless is the subject of this book. He grew up in the Washington D.C. metro area and attended Emory University. When he graduated college, he donated his money to charity and headed out West.
to forge military alliances with kingdoms west of his northwestern archenemy the Xiongnu (or Hun) tribes. He charged General Zhang Qian with this mission, giving him one hundred of his best fighting men and valuable gifts to seal the military cabals. Thirteen years later, having been a Xiongnu hostage for ten years, General Zhang returned to the Imperial Han court with only one other member of the original party. Though he had failed to make a single military alliance, General Zhang enthralled the court with information of the thirty-six commercially vibrant kingdoms west of China's frontier. Compounding the Emperor's interest was his description of the magnificent horses he'd seen in the Ferghana valley (modern day Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan); horses that were stronger and faster than any in China, horses so fine as to render the Chinese army