Colonialism In America

Could you ever imagine a day where the temperature might be between minus sixty and minus eighty degrees? Here, in the North Slope of Alaska, we have many cold days during the winter. Sometimes classes get canceled due to extreme weather in which case we’ll make up the days at the end of the school year. Around the 18th or 19th of November, the sun won’t even crest above the horizon for 65 days. We all need extra vitamin D and we use bright lights that simulate natural light for between 30-60 minutes each morning. These are some of the things that you’ll need to keep in mind when thinking about this unique place. We are the northern most city on the entire continent. I thank you for your many letters; they were received on Friday. We don’t have mail service delivered to our homes like most of you are used to. All of our mail goes to the one post office and is available for pickup only at certain times. I’m still getting used to this as I’m a Californian who has been living outside of the country for the past eight
It is said that, if anyone on this Earth can contribute to helping this world adapt to the coming climate change, it will be the nations in the Arctic Circle and I truly believe this. As you may have recently read, President Obama was here on the North Slope and Shell Oil decided to remove their oil drilling operation from our area. That might be a nice info-text assignment for you to work on. Sorry folks, it’s the teacher in me. Half of the community is split one way and the rest the other way. Folks here get dividends from Big Oil and the other half don’t want a catastrophe from the oil rigs to ruin their “grocery store” otherwise known as their subsistence lifestyle ocean and lands from where they harvest their