This week, the namesake waterway of the nation's second-largest city opened for unrestricted public recreation for the first time since the 1930s -- when devastating floods prompted officials to close public access to the river and pave its banks with concrete to improve storm drainage, officials said. Raymond was the third person to paddle a 2.5-mile section that's now wide open for public use. Even the name of this stretch of the 51-mile river captures its natural allure: Elysian Valley. "My experience was, 'wow,'" said Raymond, who plied the waters as a representative of the Los Angeles River Expeditions and the Los Angeles Kayak Club. "There's always the sound of water.
Noelle Brown July 25, 2013 Unit 4 Case Study 1-Overcoming the perils of Canoe Lake Cast- Instructor- Person #1 Nurse- Person #2 8th grade girl- Person #3 8th grade boy- Person #4 Narrator- Person #5 Director- Person #6 Scene- Camp Site Narrator The following skit is about a very excited group of eighth graders on their way to camp. As they arrive to the camp site, the instructor informs them that she has a few rules that she would like to go over before they start their camp activities. (As the bus pulls up, kids are unloading, very excited!) Instructor “Good afternoon happy campers and welcome to Camp Canoe Lake. I know you are all excited and here for fun but, there are a few rules that we all need to know to assure that your visit at Canoe Lake is a safe and fun trip.” Nurse “Yes, safety is the key” 8th grade girl (Jumping up and down) “Okay already, I want to go have fun.” 8th grade boy (Giving high fives to the girl) “That’s right we are ready for fun!” Instructor “Okay, okay, if you listen to a few rules and be very careful, all of you will definitely have fun.
Mann Gulch Fire On August 5th, 1949 what was thought to be a routine day in the lives of 16 smokejumpers, will be remembered within the U.S. Forest service as well as firefighting history. The Mann Gulch fire occurred in Montana’s Helena National Forest, and prior to this incident, no smokejumper had ever died fighting a wildland fire. The fire, which was caused by lightning strike, was originally spotted at 12:25 pm. Due to the remote location and lack of roads; smokejumpers were dispatched to the incident. Forman Wagner (Wag) Dodge and his crew made their jump a few hours after the call.
May 21- July 31 We started upstream on the Missouri River from the St Louis area camp. We had been preparing for the expedition since fall of last year. Me and nearly four dozen other men met up with Meriwether Lewis. We started making our way up the Missouri on a fiftyfive foot long keelboat and two smaller pirogues. As we traveled, I spent most of his time on the boat, charting the course of our journey and mapping it out the river and such, while Meriwether was often ashore studying the landforms, animals, and plants.
The Donners and Reeds decided to split up when the group reached Little Sandy River, Wyoming, in July 1846. The Reeds stayed on the familiar trail, but the Donners who had 23 wagons decided to take a new shortcut called the Hastings Cutoff found by Lansford W. Hastings. Hastings claimed there was an easy passage through the Wasatch Mountains (Utah Idaho border). Hastings promised that it would reduce travel by at least 350 miles, cutting three weeks off the journey. He also claimed that the roads were smooth, hard and level, that here was no threat of attack from aggressive local tribes, and that there was plenty of water and grass for animals.
I chose the book Sacajawea by Harold P. Howard for my topic, the Louis and Clark Expedition. This book tells of the incredible journey of Louis and Clark as they made their way across the continent to explore and document the land and what it contained, and how Sacajawea at age sixteen, with her baby strapped to her back helped guide the explorers through the uncharted terrain of the western United States. This book also contains the controversial accounts of Sacajawea’s life after the expedition explaining what might have became of the beneficial Indian girl. I thought the content was very interesting and it explained the explorers’ journey well. The book Sacajawea made me truly understand what it was like to travel an extreme distance mostly
Specifically, she likes talking to anybody, even a bunch of bindle stiffs. Curley's wife could have been in the movies, but instead married Curley, and now that she did, her life has been very lonely. Of Mice and Men took place during the Great Depression. The characters in the story didn't lose there jobs, but were paid very little and only once a month. They would generally spend it on cathouses, which was the one of the few ways to have a good time.
Aaron Nobles Mrs. Adela Garcia English 098 11 October 2013 Summary of “The Homestead on Rainy Mountain Creek” In the essay “The Homestead on a Rainy Mountain Creek”, N. Scott Momaday discusses his life in the town of Mountain View and his experiences with the Kiowa people. He describes different places on the homestead and memories from his childhood in each place. Momaday remembers the house and the many visitors that as a child he didn’t realize were significant to his culture. “The essential integrity of the tribe was maintained by means of a kind of institutionalized visiting, whereby persons and families would venture abroad to pay visits, to keep intact a whole network of news and trade” (141). Momaday also explains those
As a spiritual people, one might say they benefit from these long winters. Since the conditions are so ridiculous, the people do not do much during the eight-month long winter besides partake in many celebrations and tell folk stories. This also gives them a lot of time for prayer and meditationCmajor parts of the Buddhist lifestyle. It seems that their religion of Buddhism gives them an inner peace. While often Americans are described as busy, pushy, and impatientCfor example, we don=t slow our lives down for snowstorms and constantly complain about weather inconveniencesCthe people of Ladakh seem content with waiting eight months for Mother Nature to finish wreaking havoc.
The Tori Paradox (Klosterman 145) demonstrates how hyper reality occurs to keep the integrity of Saved by the Bell. Klosterman writes, “For half of the “senior year” at Bayside, Jessie and Kelly are completely part of the action… However they are suddenly absent for twelve consecutive episodes having been replaced by ‘Tori’ … that displays elements of both personalities. Within moments of her arrival, Tori is completely absorbed into the bayside gang; she’s romantically pursued by Zack and Slater and generally behaves as if she has always been one of their closest friends.” (Klosterman 145) The image of Tori doesn’t change the integrity of the show because she is Jessie and Kelly. Klosterman than writes, “This lasts until graduation when Kelly and Jessi suddenly reappear if nothing ever happened. Meanwhile tori does not appear at graduation and is not even mentioned.” (Klosterman 145) This just concretes the idea the Kelly and Jessie are interchangeable with Tori.