what it actually was. It is at the entrance to Presque Isle State Park which is almost completely surrounded by Lake Erie. Presque Isle is approximately 3200 acres and is home to many different kinds of…
“… in Detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century” (587). On June 20th, 1943 fights between black and white teenagers broke out at Belle Isle Park, an integrated amusement park on an island in the Detroit River. The conflict quickly spread off the island with the help of rumors and began to plague the rest of the city. After two days of violence, 6,000 federal troops were sent into Detroit to deescalate the situation. Overall, the riots resulted in amplified racial tensions in…
For the Stonehenge you may say how can big rocks put together in a circular format be architecture. From the book of A Global History of Architecture it states that the Beaker civilization change the structure in 2500 BCE. They added more stones that are rectangular shaped to the architecture. This stones measured about thirty-three by eighty-eight meters and weight at least twenty tons. They also made a wall called the Durrington wall that stretched 480 meters across, the wall was made for…
that have changed the world today. One that stuck out in particular was Julia Hill. Julia Hill was a woman who at the age of 22 affected the Redwood forest in a spectacular way. Julia was born in Mount Vernon, Missouri on February 18th, 1974. She spent the first ten years of her life playing outside of her father's travel trailer at campsites. Their family traveled across the country following her father's minster work. She had a love for nature, and nature loved her. At age six or seven, her…
is designed for people to bellow "take a hike" to those who deserve it, or venture into the wilderness for some healthy, much-needed exercise. Aladdin Travel interprets it as the latter. What better time to embrace nature than late autumn? Leaves transform from bright greens to light yellows and dark ambers before they shrivel and freeze off into the bone cold winter. Just a few months away marks the National Parks 100th birthday year! What a wonderful excuse to travel to one, right before the…
The Redwood National and State Parks are temperate rainforests located along the coast of Northern Carolina, USA. The RNSP contain 133,000 acres and is located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. The park consists of 4 different parks; Redwood National Park, California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks. The four parks protect 45% of the remaining redwood trees. The redwood trees are the tallest and the most massive trees in the world. The…
It is located in the Northeast Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. Bushkill falls is known as “The Niagara of Pennsylvania”. You can do just about anything from going on trails to even mining for gemstones here. Next, Presque Isle State Park is a 3,200-acre peninsula that leaks into Lake Erie. As Pennsylvania’s only ”seashore.” Presque Isle presents its visitors to a beautiful coast and many activities including, swimming, boating, fishing, hiking and in-line skating. Presque Isle is one of…
required core science classes. I'm trying to change this by taking AP Biology in addition to my core class of Honors Chemistry this upcoming school year. By taking a double science I hope to prepare myself for college. I'm also preparing myself this summer by taking camps revolving around the sciences. For instance I just finished the MASH program at LECOM. It was a 5 day program were I got to learn with student doctors, see human anatomy using cadavers, use microscopes to observe and grow…