Niki Hultquist John Green’s Looking for Alaska Green‚ John. Looking for Alaska. Penguin Print Inc.‚ 2005. Print Miles “Pudge” Halter’s life is nothing out of the ordinary. Although Pudge is comfortable with “ordinary” he is willing spice up his life by leaving his current life behind. In search of a “Great Perhaps”‚ Pudge decides to attend Culver Creek Boarding School where his life is turned upside down. Pudge allows himself to try new things and put himself in danger to find a Great Perhaps
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dating for exactly a year‚ so yay!) loaned me - Looking For Alaska by John Green. A fantastic read‚ it is about a junior in high school named Miles Halter‚ who’s obsession with famous last words has led him on a search for “The Great Perhaps”‚ a changing‚ defining moment in his life. In hopes of finding this‚ he attends a boarding school in Alabama‚ where he makes his first friends and becomes completely enraptured in a girl named Alaska Young. The novel has been compared many‚ many times to The
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English 102 Monday 6pm 2/13/2012 Domestic Oil Drilling: Benefits and Risks. Senator Everett Dirksen once noted “The oilcan is mightier than the sword”. In today’s world‚ it is easy to see why oil can be considered the most important resource to hold. Without oil‚ many of the common day occurrences we take for granted would be impossible. Oil is used for almost everything; from the fuel used to drive our vehicles‚ to the plastics used in every facet of life‚ and providing the heat needed to live
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The Tlingit: Alaska Indians By: Holli Kearns The Tlingit are an American Indian people whose land consists of the southeastern coast and Islands of Alaska‚ known as the “panhandle.” The official origin of the Tlingit people is unknown. One hypothesis is that the people came from the coast of Asia and Japan‚ migrating north and east‚ and settled in the southeast many years ago. Art forms and some physical features of the Tlingit people are similar to some Pacific groups. Tlingit legends
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the United States to increase the supply of available crude oil by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The idea of drilling in the Arctic has been controversial and to the present day is still being debated. The United States’ need to determine whether drilling in the Arctic will be a worthwhile consideration‚ or if there are not sufficient benefits to counteract the harmful possibilities drilling possesses. Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge provides many immediate economic
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Imaging Reverse time migration (RTM) Kirchhoff depth migration Beam migration Wave equation migration (WEM) Velocity modelling Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) Tomography Imaging http://www.iongeo.com/Products_Services/Data_Processing/Advanced_Imaging/Waveform_Inversion/ (http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/biondo/3DSI_frame.html) Seismic imaging algorithms can be divided in two broad categories: integral methods (e.g. Kirchhoff methods) and wavefield-continuation methods Technique Details
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Drilling for oil in Alaska‚ specifically its North Slope region continues to be a controversial topic amongst environmentalists‚ politicians and the oil industry. The North Slope is home to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge‚ as well as the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field and the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4‚ the first oil-drilling site in the state. The government established the 12-million acre Reserve No. 4 in 1923 as a way to supply oil for ensuring national security. There are many arguments for and
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thwart any possible mischievous plans of the Mohawk chief and continues to harm the Native American people (Morris 1880). As of 2010‚ the United States population contains 4.1 million individuals who identify themselves as having American Indian or Alaska Native heritage. Within this population‚ Native Americans are six times more likely to die from alcohol related causes‚ have a life expectancy rate six years lower than the national average‚ and report heavy alcohol use almost double the other ethnicities
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is associated with the preparation of food‚ the varieties and the amounts has been undergoing changes over the last century in American families everywhere. A simple questionnaire was given to three different generations of people all growing up in Alaska. Though two of them are directly related as father and son‚ the third in not directly related but a stepmother to the father and will serve as the eldest of the generation in this evaluation. Brycen Lynch‚ born in 1999 who is still in High School
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The Northern Wolffish (Anarhichas denticulatus) Joseph Morris FISH/BIOL 288 Spring 2012 1/31/12 Evolutionary relationships: There are four species of Wolffishes‚ Atlantic Anarhichas lupus‚ (Linnaeus‚ 1758)‚ Northern A. denticulatus‚ (Krøyer‚ 1845)‚ Spotted A. minor and Bering Wolffish A. orientalis (Pallas‚ 1814). All four Wolffishes are Osteichthyes or bony fishes and are in the order of Perciformes or perch-like fish The focus of my paper is on the Northern Wolffish A. denticulatus and
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