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Small Mountain Village Of Estes Park
1,321 wordsLONGS PEAK Deep in the heart of the Rockies lies the small mountain village of Estes Park, Colorado. Estes Park borders Rocky Mountain National Park and it was my summer retreat. Never in my life had I seen someplace taken directly out of a fairy tale. The mountains swallowed the town. One particular mountain immediately caught my eye. I knew that it had to be the tallest, for it was the only mountain that was still covered in May snow. I later learned that the enormous mountain was Longs Peak. ...
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Ararat Mountain
324 wordsAccording to the Bible, Noah's Ark is the largest sea going vessel known before the 20th century. It's dimensions were at least 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high with three interior decks, and had a window constructed around the top. The proportions of the ark are amazingly similar to the large ocean liners of today. The Bible also says the boat came to rest on 'the mountains if Ararat', but it doesn't name a specific peak. It is also kind of weird because after Noah and his family get o...
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Last Town Before Lonely Mountain
344 wordsThe Hobbit Synopsis The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien is about Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit (a dwarf), who goes on an adventure with some other Hobbits. They travel to Lonely Mountain to get their land back from an evil dragon. Bilbo's adventures all started when he was sitting outside one day and a wizard named Gandalf asked him to go with them to Lonely Mountain to help steal back the treasure and land that Smaug (the evil dragon) had stolen from their forefathers. At first Bilbo was confused, then he ...
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Day In The Mountains Of Kurdistan
497 wordsKiss the Dust Kiss the dust by Elizabeth Laird is a story about a young Kurdistan girl names Tara. Her life is challenged by having to escape from Baghdad, because her father is a member of the Push Mur gas. She has to move from Baghdad to the mountains of Iran. Tara has to adapt to her new surroundings and struggles to survive through each day. Tara is forced to adapt to her new surroundings when her family flees to the mountains of Kurdistan. Following there escape to the mountains, Tara has t...
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North And West By The Caledonian Mountains
1,066 wordsGeo essayIrelandIreland is an island on the western fringe of Europe between latitude 51 1/2 and 55 1/2 degrees north, and longitude 5 1/2 to 10 1/2 degrees west. Its greatest length, from Malin Head in the north to Mize n Head in the south, is 486 km and its greatest width from east to west is approximately 275 km. Since 1921 the island has been divided politically into two parts. The independent twenty-six county area, comprising 70,282 sq. km, has a population of 3,523,401 (1991). Northern Ir...
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Plot Of Cold Mountain
748 wordsCOLD MOUNTAIN The story of 'Cold Mountain' is a best selling novel and it is the first book written by Charles Frazier. It took years of research before he could write this novel. The plot of Cold Mountain is really and old idea, in fact it is an ancient one. The plot is the same as the one in an ancient book by Homer. The story I am referring to is 'The Odyssey'. The Odyssey is a book about a wounded soldier trying to find his way back home and his sweetheart, Penelope that is waiting for his r...
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In Comparison With Other States Vermont
3,964 wordsVermont has been called a piece of America's past. In no other state has natural beauty been so untouched by modern development. In no other state has the small-town atmosphere of more than a century ago been so well preserved. Often chosen as a comfortable second home by city dwellers, Vermont seemingly has escaped the ugly urban sprawl that pollutes so many parts of the nation. The state has long been noted for its hardy, independent people. Their rugged New England character was probably orda...
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Nuclear Waste Disposal At Yucca Mountain
1,041 wordsNuclear Waste Disposal At Yucca Mountain: Right or Wrong? As the United States' nuclear waste buildup becomes larger, the need fora permanent storage facility becomes more urgent. One proposed site is in the Yucca Mountains of Nevada. This makes many Nevadans uneasy, as visions of three-legged babies and phosphorescent people come to mind. This is an unfounded worry, as many reasons prove. In fact, the Yucca Mountains provide an ideal site for a permanent underground nuclear waste facility in th...
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Forms Volcanic Mountains
401 wordsHow Are Mountains Formed Mountains are formed over long periods of time by forces of the earth. Mountains just don t appear in any place. Most are formed when plates, or huge pieces of the Earth's crust, pull and push against each other. Great mountain ranges are formed by the movement of tectonic plates. Convection currents deep in the mantle of the earth, begins to well up towards the surface. As the pressure increases, it sets the crustal plates in motion. There are different kinds of mountai...
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Part Of The Mountains
331 wordsBritish Columbia Report The Canadian providence of British Columbia is as beautiful as it is rich in natural resources. First, the two main regions of the providence are the Interior Plains and the many divisions of mountains. The Interior Plains are in the far northeastern part of the land. The chain of mountains are called the Cordilleran Region. The eastern part of the Cordilleran Region are named the Rocky Mountains. A little farther to the east that part of the mountains a renamed the Inter...
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Hike At Blue Ridge Mountain
1,043 wordsBiome Broadcast LANCASTER / PENNSYLVANIA This morning Darian, Danny, Laura, and I were bored so we decided that we would all go on a hike at Blue Ridge Mountain. All of us went home, got our hiking equipment, and packed a lunch. We then met at my house. I drove all of us up to Blue Ridge Mountain. We got there in a half hour it was around 10: 30 AM. It was probably one of the most beautiful days we had all year, it was around seventy to seventy five degrees and there was barely any humidity. Eve...
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Sisyphus's Fate
635 wordsThe Human Condition Does life ever seem pointless and discouraging? In Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus", Camus describes the correlation between Sisyphus's fate and the human condition. In the selection, everyday is the same for Sisyphus. Sisyphus is condemned to rolling a rock up a mountain for eternity. Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus" forces one to contemplate Sisyphus's fate, how it relates to the human condition, and how it makes the writer feel about her part in life. Camus states "if t...
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Nuclear Waste To Yucca Mountain
1,358 wordsNuclear Waste Although the government believes that Nevada is an ideal place for nuclear waste storage, it is simply overlooking the obvious implications that would threaten both the environment and the people of the land. Yucca was suggested to be a waste repository along with several other areas some years ago. This facility located at Yucca Mountain would house some of mans most dangerous elements, like plutonium. As with the Native Americans political power played a key role in the theft of ...
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Layers Of Lava Causes The Volcanoes
1,157 wordsLateral Blast The sudden removal of the volcano's north flank released pressure on the hydrothermal and magmatic system within the volcano, triggering a devastating lateral blast to the north. The abrupt pressure release, or "uncorking", of the volcano by the avalanche can be compared in some ways to the removal of the cap from a vigorously shaken bottle of soda pop, or to punching a hole in a boiler tank under high pressure. The northward-directed lateral blast of rock, ash, and hot gas devasta...
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Power The Akkadian King
429 wordsThe Akkadians conception of power is absolutism and loyalty to the royal king and not the city-state. The king, Sargon of Akkad, had so much power that his own grandsons who were governors of cities were considered just simply servants to the king. The king believed that he held so much power, that he called himself "the ruler of the earth". The absolute monarchy and divine power is depicted in the victory stele of Naram-Sin at Sipp ar, showing his defeat of the Lull ubi. The stele, made of pink...
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Blue Mountains Waste Total
1,726 wordsEvery living thing crates garbage, humans above all create by far the greatest quantities of it as well as the most biologically and environmental hazardous garbage. Which brings me to the whole reason that I chose waste management. Waste management. What is it, some may ask, "why should I care about what a few dry old men want to do with my trash?" -my little brother. To start with by definition waste management is "the treatment of substances which have no economic use and may be harmful to th...
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Yucca Mountain Free Of Nuclear Waste
519 wordsNuclear Waste has some effect on everyone in the world, but Native American's seem to be affected the most. One specific case of this would be Yucca Mountain. Yucca Mountain is located 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. This is a major metropolitan area, which is home to about one and a half million people, and of the world's most popular tourist attractions. The plan involves moving over 77,000 metric tons of hazardous nuclear waste across the county, using rails and roads that pass through other...
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View Of Hills And Smaller Mountains
325 wordsShakespeare once said,' We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ' While I do not know what my future holds or how I will spend the bulk of my adult life I know that only education will give me the opportunity to detect my interests and enrich my soul. Shakespeare's quote sent me out on a journey to better understand myself. Surrounded by thousands of stars, complete silence, and spectacular mountains, I stood atop of the Los Angeles Mountains awestruck by nature's beauty. The hike taug...
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Lonely Mountain
324 wordsAs Mr. Tolkien explains, Hobbits are a very ancient people. Peaceful and well ordered. They love food and are never in a hurry. Smaller than dwarves, ranging between two and four feet tall. They seldom wore shoes because their feet were covered in thick curly hair, and have tough leathery soles. They loved parties and presents, you would never ask for a better host Head of the Baggins family, he dwelt alone at Bag End, Hobbit on, until Gandalf involved him in the Quest of Erebor in 2941 (Third A...
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Few Rams In North Dakota
343 wordsThe bighorn or the bighorn sheep, ov is canadensis, is the family bovid ae in the order Artiodactyl a. It is a wild sheep with a silky coat similar to that of a deer, varying from brown to buff. The male bighorn, or ram, may be as much as 150 cm long, about 100 cm at the shoulders, and weigh 157 kg; females are the smaller. The muzzle is narrow. Despite it's bulk, the bighorn can negotiate mountainous terrain, aided by it's sharp cloven hooves with elastic pads. The ram carries a majestic set of...
