Being wheelchair bound, for me an ideal holiday means either meeting or going beyond my limits, as much as I can. The Alaskan Cruise was by far the most outstanding holiday of my life.
Our majestic journey began with a six-hour flight from Boston to Seattle. The next day we were all set to head towards the Seattle Docks, where our Celebrity Infinity Cruise would begin its journey. As we approached the docks, I had mixed feelings but found solace in that I was in the midst of my closest family members. With every forward step on the pathway to the liner my adrenaline rose. After the long walk along the pathway, we reached the entrance of the liner! The staff in uniform greeted us with warmth and affection. Champagne, cocktails, juices, and snacks
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This pristine masterpiece, featuring some of Alaska’s spectacular sceneries, was once covered in ice. When massive glacier movements and volcanic activities occurred, it carved out the monument’s present landscapes. The spectacular sceneries left a huge impact on our memories! The windows of the floatplane allowed us to enjoy the panoramic sceneries of protracted saltwater fjords edged by cliffs soaring several thousands of feet into the air, snow-capped peaks that were swathed in mists, tidewater estuaries, sky-blue lakes, cascading waterfalls making their way into the deep freshwater lakes, and seemingly endless evergreen forests. All of a sudden, on our way back to the mainland, the pilot made an exhilarating water landing right in the midst of a valley! While halting on a rock formation in the crystal clear water, it was here where I savored the incredible scenery from the floatplane …show more content…
One thing that amused us here was that there were so few motor vehicles plying the city streets and plenty of horse carriages! For this reason the air seemed to be so fresh! With this sight we could conclude that this city does exude the British Old World charm and flair. While touring the city on a horse carriage, we saw the city’s upscale residential neighborhoods, manicured lawns, abundant flowers and gardens, and various coastal views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. As the sun was setting, streetlights and building lights were coming on, we could see how this one-time British colony still retains much of its colonial splendor. I just adored the Parliament Building when its lights came on- it looked like a castle! Once back on the ship, post dinner, we retired to our room balconies to admire the full moon, which appeared unbelievably
Task/Activity: Instead of taking a spelling test, students in both classes jumped right into PARCC preparation. Students received a packet containing a reading selection from the novel A Woman Who Went to Alaska and multiple choice questions that was included on the 2015 PARCC and released to the public. Students read the packet and answered the questions independently before the class reconvened, discussing the reading and its questions as a group. Following this activity, students worked together in pairs to write down the challenges they faced while completing the packet and identify the skills they still need in order to succeed on the PARCC exam. After this, the class received a packet titled “Ruby Bridges: Girl of Courage,” and were instructed to complete the first task, which including reading and annotating as well as completing four questions about the passage. The rest of the packet would be completed in stages during the following week.
The opening lines of Janie’s story consist of, “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizons…” These words suggest the necessity in life to endeavo...
“I had been born into a raging ocean where I swam relentlessly, flailing my arms in hope of rescue, of reaching a shoreline I never sighted. Never solid ground beneath me, never a resting place. I had lived with only the desperate hope to stay afloat; that and nothing more. But when at last I wrote my first words in the page, I felt an island rising beneath my feet like the back of a whale”.
Nasht’s depiction of Frank Hurley’s journey into Antarctica raises the importance of discovering new ideas and values which shape his journey as an “odyssey”, a classical allusion to Homer’s epic poem, His journey of discovery challenges many assumptions and questions Hurley’s society had sought represented by epic film music and indirect interviews to portray the feeling of excitement and adventure, portraying an assumption that discovery can lead to new experiences and new worlds. Nasht’s juxtaposition of Hurley’s dramatic archival footage to the modern recreation of the journey evokes a sense of excitement and a change in beliefs, where previously people didn’t know what adventure felt like. Images of large and grand icebergs signify a new sense of discovery in an uncharted world which becomes important to those on the ship, Endurance knowing that they are risking their lives to experience the nature of the world that no one has even sought and being the first to answer the challengers of discovering and exploring new worlds and experiences. The clever synthesis from shifts of Elephant Island to Hurley’s daughters provokes a sense of discovering something personal, as “the places he explored left a mark on him and his photography”, where Hurley’s daughters rediscover their father’s experiences. The daughters are overwhelmed by the desolation of the ice and space, which becomes significant for them, as they relive the memories and the experience of their father when he journeyed to
About fifty miles long, along the coast of southern Alaska lay a scenic destination. A bay filled with glaciers that tell
Some of the most intriguing stories of today are about people’s adventures at sea and the thrill and treachery of living through its perilous storms and disasters. Two very popular selections about the sea and its terrors are The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and “The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Longfellow. Comparison between the two works determines that “The Wreck of the Hesperus” tells a more powerful sea-disaster story for several different reasons. The poem is more descriptive and suspenseful than The Perfect Storm, and it also plays on a very powerful tool to captivate the reader’s emotion. These key aspects combine to give the reader something tangible that allows them to relate to the story being told and affects them strongly.
“The Seafarer” begins with a man’s story of the hardships he faced at sea. He is on a voyage to discover new lands and riches, yet he is not happy. Despite the great journey the man is undertaking, he feels in exile from his people. He has been lonely for a long period of time now and has had no success. As he is pondering this topic, he thinks of how he only hears the sounds of birds instead of the laughter of people in the mead hall. He thinks of how he is cold instead of warm and sharing drink with his friends; he is lonely and his kinsmen can offer him no comfort, so his soul is left drowning in desolation.
The smell of the restaurants faded and the new, refreshing aroma of the sea salt in the air took over. The sun’s warmth on my skin and the constant breeze was a familiar feeling that I loved every single time we came to the beach. I remember the first time we came to the beach. I was only nine years old. The white sand amazed me because it looked like a wavy blanket of snow, but was misleading because it was scorching hot. The water shone green like an emerald, it was content. By this I mean that the waves were weak enough to stand through as they rushed over me. There was no sense of fear of being drug out to sea like a shipwrecked sailor. Knowing all this now I knew exactly how to approach the beach. Wear my sandals as long as I could and lay spread out my towel without hesitation. Then I’d jump in the water to coat myself in a moist protective layer before returning to my now slightly less hot towel. In the water it was a completely different world. While trying to avoid the occasional passing jellyfish, it was an experience of
When the day came to leave I was woken at the crack of dawn. I was keen to get to Blackpool as swiftly as possible, not only for the football that was ahead of us but also for the famous Pleasure Beach. The coach picked us up at around 8 am and in we crammed into an already full coach. The journey down was full of laughter and friendly joking from the parents. That day, it was particularly hot and inside the coach a number of people were becoming uncomfortable. I was unaffected by the warmth inside the coach, with my earphones in I relaxed and paid more attention to the vast countryside we were passing through. The vivid scenery blew me away, with colossal hills to calm rivers that we met on the journey.
The absence of immediate medical care and the likelihood that significant delays may occur before medical care when injured by equipment on the vessel or by their own carelessness.
As we pulled out of my parents driveway, the circumstances seemed very surreal. My entire way of life had been turned upside down with only a few hours consideration. I was very much “at sea” in the ...
I remember a time in my life not too long ago when my family and I went white water rafting for the first time. We had been spending some of our summer vacation at a cabin in the Smokey Mountains, close to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The next day we would experience feelings of exhilarating excitement, with a sense of suspense and anticipation as we rafted down the Nantahala River.
We got into our lines, behind groups of excited families and happy little old men and women. As the line ascended up the ramp onto this enormous water vessel, pictures were taken of every group of passengers. Smile, laugh and look happy! Riiight. As a matter of fact, I was pretty anxious. I'd never been on a boat like this, and especially not for a whole week.
An article from the At Home Memphis and Mid South magazine titled “The Unforgettable beauty of alaska” points out several wonderful features of alaskan nature. The list presents 13 must-see attractions of alaska including “Alaska’s inside passage… The Hubbard Glacier... Denali National park” (Barbara May) and many more. When being among these magnificent features, “you will witness some of the world’s most awe-inspiring tidewater glaciers and cascading waterfalls.”
When time jumped like lighting, so did we, not to our feet but towards each other. We held one another even tighter and didn't want to let go. Although, time was spent wisely and carefully saved, we had run out and were rushed like an ambulance to meet the schedule appointed in half an hour. In sweet bitterness, we packed up and went home. An everlasting day at Lake Lavon that is perpetual in my heart will remain there forever.