Descriptive Essay About Cathedral Park - 1433 Words

Equipped with my phone and earbuds, my family and I were ready for our venture west. We were all eager to go; none of us had been to any of these attractions before--Sedona, Arizona, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Utah, Colorado--and all of the states we drove through. My parents were in the front and in the back my sister and I were excited for the long drive we had ahead of us. The trip was going to be fun for all of us because we would have some family time together and also get a grasp on the world and how beautiful it would be if we would treat all of it the way these destinations are being treated. We drove through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico to get to our first main destination, Sedona, Arizona. We were driving into†¦show more content†¦The drive to the Grand Canyon was just about as boring as the drive through Kansas, nothing but dead grass and dry dirt. Even though it wasn’t the most exciting, this was what we had all been waiting for. This was like the core of the vacation. We pulled into the National Park and we were going to the parking lot when we saw around 10 bucks. We got to the parking lot and hopped out of the car and we all said â€Å"where is it?† There was nothing you could see yet except for trees and building. We started walking towards it and the view of it hit you at once, â€Å"holy crap,† I said, â€Å"this is incredible.† We started to walk on a paved path around the canyon and the view kept getting better and better. It was so hard to comprehend the view of this place. To think it was made naturally was unimaginable. After about an hour of walking we decided to take a bus to different locations of the park. When the sun was about to set we went to a look-out spot and waited around thirty minutes. â€Å"Norah, get your camera out. The sun s setting,† commanded my mom. Norah and my mom had a perfect spot to take pictures and a lady pushed her way right in front of them. None of us knew what to say besides, â€Å"did she really just do that?† We all had a very long day so we kept our mouths shut and took a bus back to the parking lot and headed to our hotel. The canyon was already packed at around 7:00 a.m. the next morning. We thought we’d arrive earlyShow MoreRelatedRosalind Krauss - Photographys Discursive Spaces9350 Words   |  38 Pagessici=0004-3249%28198224%2942%3A4%3C311%3APDSL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 Art Journal is currently published by College Art Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only forRead MoreUrbana at Feliza10754 Words   |  44 Pagesgenerations of readers. At present, the work is alive in various textbooks in Philippine literature as a significant nineteenth-century text that promoted good manners and right conduct among its readers. But as a cultural artifact, except in some critical essays, the book is treated fondly as a quaint anachronism from a bygone era, and is to be studied as part of a long forgotten past with its system of values and beliefs. However, as late as 1938, when the last edition of the book was published, a numberRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesPHILADELPHIA Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright  © 2010 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Essays on twentieth century history / edited by Michael Peter Adas for the American Historical Association. p. cm.—(Critical perspectives on the past) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4399-0269-1 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4399-0270-7