Me, my Mom, Dad, Graycie, and Will (Graycie’s boyfriend) decided to take a little trip to the Guadalupe River! I was excited, because I’ve never floated through the river before. Although I wasn’t excited about being in the car with Will for several hours. He’s kind of a handful. We woke up early the next morning to start heading towards the river. When we got there I was happy to finally be out of the truck. I was ready and prepared to get in the water. Especially because it was so hot! After getting a bite to eat we went and bought our floats. Soon we realized I got the biggest tube out of everyone even though I was the smallest, which made everyone else struggle in the river because their float was too small. It was pretty funny to me.
Later on we finally made it to the water and got tied up. As we started floating and relaxing we realized there’s shoots you go through. Which is where the water runs really fast and it gets deeper. Soon enough we see a shoot ahead and everyone was excited and ready. Although after making it through the shoot everyone was still in their float except for my dad. He’s tube flipped and he fell out. He was perfectly fine so it was kind of funny, everyone was laughing. It might not sound funny, but it was hilarious to watch even he was laughing. After floating the Guadalupe for three hours and renting a house on the river for a few days it was overall a good trip. I definitely won’t forget the memories I made on this trip with my family. I hope to go back next year! https://quizlet.com/class/1163476/members
Floridians lives on top of a limestone foundation that was once upon a time was a shallow coral sea and is now riddled with caves. In the film Water’s Journey: Hidden Rivers of Florida there were divers tracking the path of water through underground caves, specifically Florida’s aquifers. They were navigating through the complicated system of undergrounds rivers from where water disappears underground to where it resurfaces in the springs of Florida.
Author and historian, Carol Sheriff, completed the award winning book The Artificial River, which chronicles the construction of the Erie Canal from 1817 to 1862, in 1996. In this book, Sheriff writes in a manner that makes the events, changes, and feelings surrounding the Erie Canal’s construction accessible to the general public. Terms she uses within the work are fully explained, and much of her content is first hand information gathered from ordinary people who lived near the Canal. This book covers a range of issues including reform, religious and workers’ rights, the environment, and the market revolution. Sheriff’s primary aim in this piece is to illustrate how the construction of the Erie Canal affected the peoples’ views on these issues.
Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso 1880-1920 analyzes and discusses the Mexican immigrants to El Paso, Texas. The most western city of the vast state of Texas, a city in the edge of the Chihuahuan desert; a place too far away from many regions of the United States, but as Mario García explains a very important city during the development of the western United States. He begins explaining how El Paso’s proximity to different railroads coming from México and the United States converged there, which allowed El Paso to become an “instant city”, as mining, smelting, and ranching came to region. (García 2)
The Bengawan Solo is the longest river in the Indonesian archipelago, located at the island of Java. It runs through Mount Lawu’s slopes, passes through the province of Solo, and streams over the lowlands then discharges to the Java Sea. Java is well known to have a tropical monsoon climate; therefore flooding is a common environmental problem throughout Indonesia. Java has lengthy humid forecasts during October up until April, with the most humid months being January and February. Due to the recent eruptions of the Mount Merapi, Kelut, and Lawu, there has been a distinct distribution of volcanic ash and remains carried by the waters of the Solo River. The volcanic ash contributes to the high agricultural fertility of the farmlands near the river. Although it could be beneficial to the fertility of Solo’s farmlands, the ash carries sicknesses and diseases to those near the river. Also, the floods have affected people and their homes, making their homes inhabitable because of the access of water that has entered their houses. The construction of the Wonogiri Dam was part of major flood resistance and a hydroelectric power source for Solo, however the annual flooding continues to haunt the people of Solo. The annual inundations caused severe ecological, social, economic losses and damages. Local geologists predict that severe climate shifts would result in greater weather forecasts during the rainy seasons, which would result to higher overflow of rivers, major flooding, landslides, fatalities and losses. As a result of the recent flooding, with more than 100 fatalities, large amounts of Solo’s agriculture are affected; buildings and transportation were destroyed, therefore leading to large economical losses. Due to Solo’s history w...
El Paso has seen its fair share of heat, drought, storms and floods. The complication the binational region has to concentrate on will be management after flash flooding. In order to accomplish an earlier warning time frame the meteorologist need to get ahead of the “Climate Whiplash”. Geologist have already figured out why the ground cannot naturally absorb the stormwater leaving it to the city to find a way to divert or control the runoff. There are many ways to have the water led away from the city. This paper will bring to light past and some current systems in place.
The world of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” exists through the mostly unemotional eyes of the character Nick. Stemming from his reactions and the suppression of some of his feelings, the reader gets a sense of how Nick is living in a temporary escape from society and his troubles in life. Despite the disaster that befell the town of Seney, this tale remains one of an optimistic ideal because of the various themes of survival and the continuation of life. Although Seney itself is a wasteland, the pine plain and the campsite could easily be seen as an Eden, lush with life and ripe with the survival of nature.
The Mississippi River is one of the world 's extraordinary rivers. It is the longest in the United States, more than twenty-three hundred miles in length, as it structures the outskirts of ten states, just about bisecting the mainland (Currie,2003, 8). This waterway has a long history also, and it has touched the lives of numerous individuals. The Mississippi is said to start at Lake Itasca in Minnesota. In 1832, pilgrim Henry Schoolcraft named this lake, not after any neighborhood Indian name, but rather from the Latin words for "genuine head" which are veritas caput abbreviated to "Itasca" (Currie, 2003, 4). In any case, much sooner than its source was named it was a navigational waterway. The Indians who initially lived on the banks of the stream were known as the Mississippians. From 800 to 1500, these people groups utilized the waterway for exchange. They dug out
Before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Santa Clara Valley, it was the home to the Ohlone natives. Their territory spanned from San Jose all the way to the Guadalupe River, originating from Santa Clara. The process of converting the land into Spanish settlements began in 1777. This began with the expeditions of Sergeant Jose Ortega. When his soldiers arrived on the land, they noted the vast resources that were available. These resources included a constant source of freshwater, multiple native villages that was spread out along the river, timber, and rich lands. Mission Santa Clara was soon established on the west banks of the Guadalupe River along with the first Pueblo town, El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe on the east. The river helped create a borderline that separated the missionary control of Mission Santa Clara and the pueblo village (Dixon, 1997).
“Don’t waste that water! Kids in Africa don’t even have water to drink!” Almost every American has heard this saying before. We have heard this because there are water shortages in third world countries like Africa, as seen in the movie “Blue Gold”. But why have we developed this notion that there are only water shortages in third world countries? When in reality, there is a shortage of water right here in our home country. The Colorado River’s water is high in demand as it serves millions of people, powers industries, and is home to all different kinds of wildlife. The Colorado River will not be able to keep up with the increasing demand of water and soon enough the river will go dry. Organizations like the Colorado River Water Users Association are trying to change the way that the water is used and adjust how it is managed. The Colorado River is drying up and the western states are running out of water, however, public policy is trying to regulate and preserve the Colorado River to make it more sustainable in the future.
I was too excited to sleep that night so I just stayed up and read. It was finally 4:30 in the morning and time to get up. After a quick bowl of cereal. I jumped in the pickup and drove to where I was going to hunt. It was still dark when I got there so I grabbed my stuff and started up the mountain. I got to where I wanted to glass from, and waited for it to get light, so I could start looking for elk.
My uncle and I started getting everything setup so we could start fishing. I grabbed my fishing rod, placed the bait on the hook, unfolded my chair, and waited for a fish. Tim saw me sitting by myself so he walked over to the dock to talk to me about some stuff; he started telling me about his most prized/special catfish, the albino catfish. The albino catfish lived
The Secret River by Kate Grenville is a fictional story through and through; however the nuggets of truth and often overlooked history that it’s based on rang with a depressing overtone that truly resonated within me as an Australian. This conglomeration of semi-fictional truths is a story about morality and the inner demons inside all of us, which inadvertently caused the colonization of Australia to be what it was. My initial knowledge off the ‘settling’ of Australia was general at best; however, nothing that occurred was surprising to me and I can easily imagine the events that this book is loosely based on could happen in real life. With that said, I believe Kate Grenville managed to present these events in such a way that caused me to
In human history; past and present, when two groups of peoples meet each other for the first time, two different social standings form. One group always has a higher social standing than the other group does. Throughout the ages post-medieval history, this has always been the white European explorers and settlers. Such as Jacques-Cartier and the French colonizers in Canada, Spanish and Portuguese colonizers in South America or English explorers and the English settlers in India, Africa, North America and Australia. In The Secret River written by Kate Grenville the story follows a semi-fictional character William Thornhill through his journey as penal convict to Australia.
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.
The Secret River (2013) a play adapted by Andrew Bovell from the book of the same title by Kate Granville, can be looked at through a multitude of lenses, including post colonialism, discourse of privilege and gender perspective.