Kelsey Zimmerman

Ms. Anthony

English 101-103

14 April 2014

A Day at Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park is a well known national park, people talk about it, travel, and venture to and from it all the time.  It is not just a national park, it's a place where countless memories can be made.  There are so many different occasions you can go there for, anniversaries, family vacation, or even just a little road trip.  You definitely get an awesome workout by walking up and down so many different trails to see waterfalls, wildlife and people that are just like you.  Yellowstone National Park is by far one of my favorite places I would like to see.  There are several ways that you can get there, you could take a bus, a plane, or you can just drive yourself.  I personally would end up driving, you have nothing but road that lies ahead of you and you get to see how different people, towns and cities really are.  When you’re in the country you see kids coming outside and playing as they eat their popsicles.  As your passing through the second you get into the country you can smell the fresh scent in the air, and quite often you smell the cow monure.  You hit the city and all you see are people walking, people getting held up in traffic, and you don’t see much of the kids.  When you take a deep breath, you can tell that it’s in the city because it doesn’t have that cleansing feel to it.  To observe so many different places with different people you really see how one thing could make a person significant.  The cool air keeps your car nice and cool and if it gets to cold you can simply turn it off, you control everything when you drive, and music is always a big thing for me I can’t live without it.  It’s a long drive so depending on the amount of monsters and coffee you have; you may end up having to stop in at a motel for a day.  If your smart and you think ahead, you could have someone riding with you and when you start getting tired you trade off and then when you wake up you’ll be at Yellowstone National Park, whereas if your not smart you may end up staying in one of those really creepy old hotels and you'll end up dead or something.  That last sentence was just a joke, but you probably will end up in a hotel that hasn't had the bedding washed in a month, with roaches and spiders all over the floor because you didn't even reserve a room at the better hotel and when you got there they were all booked.  When you arrive at Yellowstone you get to venture off on all sorts of different trails,   there are over 1,100 miles of hiking available.  You should check the forcast for the area you'll stay at for the night just in case there are going to be severe storms or something.  You have to be careful when you venture off alone into the woods because you can never tell what weather conditions are going to be like or how the wildlife is going to react.  Doing a little bit of research about Yellowstone, I actually found out that according to Jordan Fisher Smith, “between 1950 and 1974 1,060 people were injured by bears in Yellowstone, a symptom of an ecosystem out of balance.”  I personally think it’s a good idea to find out what type of animals are somewhere before I venture off so that if something does happen I know how to respond to it.  There are actually over 60 mammals that live in Yellowstone, they have bears, cats, dogs, raccoons, weasels, pika’s, hare’s, rabbits, beavers, squirrels, gophers, mice, porcupine, elk, bison, deer, moose, bats and a ton of others.  Yellowstone has a ton of different things you can do, you’ll never go bored!  I mean the fact that Yellowstone is actually resting on top of a volcano that has not erupted half a million years ago and that there are 2,221,766 acres has nothing to do with it.  The human history of the Yellowstone region goes back more than 11,000 years and it was the first national park Established on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone National Park is really significant to me because when I was around twelve years old my cousin started going on vacation there and he’d send us post cards through the mail with different animals on it.  My sisters and I use to always fight over who had the best post card.  We would always wait for him to get back and when he did he’d always have stuffed animals, shirts and he even got my mom a shot glass once, and that is how I learned about Yellowstone.  I feel like Yellowstone is such a beautiful place to see because it has so many different things about it like you can go hiking, take photos of some of the animals, there are souvenir shops, you can go see the waterfalls, just so many different things that you can do and it’ll all be worth it in the end.  Waterfalls are one of the biggest things for me because he always gave me the card with a really pretty waterfall on it, the sound of a waterfall is one of the prettiest sounds that I have ever heard.  The traditional use of the lands of Yellowstone dates back to over two hundred years ago.  Yellowstone is not just a national park, it is also used to help preserve and protect all sorts of different animals.  When your walking down the trails and you see those animals all that can come to your mind is how it is such a natural beauty.  When you take the time to actually go out hiking, camping and just capture memories with your loved ones.  All in all, Yellowstone is one of my favorite places to go because I mean it's not like it's just a national park it's also the memories you get to cherish, the new experiences, getting to know different animals, the absorption of nature and your surroundings and you may even find out something about yourself that you never knew. 

 

 

 

 

My Place Notes

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• ·         Yellowstone National Park is really significant to me because when I was around twelve years old my cousin started going on vacation there and he’d send us post cards through the mail with different animals on it.  My sisters and I use to always fight over who had the best post card.  We would always wait for him to get back and when he did he’d always have stuffed animals, shirts and he even got my mom a shot glass once.  I haven’t really got to see much of yellow stone after I was fourteen because he ended up over dosing, but I have always said that I was going to go there so I could see what he once seen. 
• ·   Human history of Yellowstone region goes back more than 11,000 years
•   Traditional use of Yellowstone lands continued a little over 200 years ago
• ·         1872 a country that had not yet seen its first centennial, established Yellowstone as the first nation park in the world.
•  It was a new way for people to preserve and protect the best of what they had for the benefit.
•    Established on March 1, 1872
•   Size: 2,221,766 acres
•     Most of the park rests on top of a slumbering colcano that erupted half a million years ago and is showing renewed energy.  Says  national geographic 
•     Between 1950 and 1974 1060 people were injured by bears in Yellowstone, a symptom of an ecosystem out of balance. (EBSCO)

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He claims that there are no hidden fees, yet if you go over to the samples it's like 17.99 or something like that for 10 pages and 5 sources.  However, if you go to the pricing menu and you say you want 10 pages it's like 200 something dollars.  I don't understand why they would say there are no hidden fees or anything, personally I think that the people who use this are stupid, yeah I understand some people procrastinate and then freak out but I've done that before and wrote a three page paper within 5 hours.  It doesn't take that long to write a paper, you print out your sources go through highlight what you like out of there points take that information and write your OWN paper.  A lot of teachers can understand the students writing styles especially toward the end.  My question is, do they use big words?  Small words?  Big vocabulary?  Small Vocabulary?  All students are different some may say that a dog is a nuisance and then some may say that they are stupid aiming toward the same point but different wording, if I were a teacher and someone started using big words like that out of nowhere I would be like what is going on with this student?  Obviously the majority of students aren't going to read a dictionary and suddenly get a huge education with a huge vocabulary.  I don't really think getting your paper written for you is the smartest thing in the world to do I mean yeah there could be perks with it, you don't have to do any writing, you don't have to do anything really.  But when you do that, your literally learning nothing and you'll need those skills for later.  No matter what job you are in you HAVE to know how to write a professional paper and everything, I mean when your out in the world if you get really high up you need to be knowledgeable with how you teach your co-workers that are working alongside you.  Sometimes you may have to do a speech, you have to learn how to get people skills and when your going off getting your paper written for you, your not receiving any further education which is literally what you are paying for.  You need to do things so that you can learn not someone else, yeah you may go through and read the paper making sure it's to your liking but I bet some people don't even do that.  You'd probably just skim through it and then be like alright good enough and then all of that information goes straight out, when your actually researching the material it actually sticks after that, or that's how it is for me.  I can't just skim through something because then it never sticks in my head I have to read it several times to remember it.  I just think that it's really stupid to do something like that, it's just like they are being so lazy to even actually care about their education.  That and not to mention, I am in Culinary two classes this semester and we have to write papers, the degree I want to go for and you still have to write papers.  Papers are everywhere and the more you avoid them the more they pop up it seems.  Not to mention pretty much everyone has one word they say a lot throughout their writing, I use to say like all the time I still type it but I've kind of gotten rid of it.

The Pigeon

I am not just any ordinary bird; I am a pigeon, and I am on a mission. I am on a mission to seek a circular shape with a hole in the middle. I smell it being baked every morning as I glide through the wonderful air. I see people eating this beautiful treat all the time, oh what I wouldn't do to have something as amazing as that. I look to my left, and I see a man with a brief case eating one. I quietly swoop down to meet his gaze; his eyes wander over to me, and I return the gaze at the circular object he holds in his hand. He tosses me a crumb; I reject it. I am not about to be eating crumbs when I want something I get it all. The man looked at me as if I was ungrateful I figured he was not getting the right message, I then move on top of a shiny rectangular thing that was warm on my feet and look at him. I hear a SLAM and am in a dark place with all sorts of weird buttons. I look at my surrounds and begin poking things with my beak as if I can find a way out. I then find that it is very fun to poke all of these buttons, I am not in a dark place. I am playing a video game; I begin pressing buttons to see what does what and to my surprise. I touch a button with the bottom of my beak and off, I go in the air. This is by far the best video game I have ever played and my what amazing graphics it has! I begin blowing up cars smelling the fumes coming through the small cracks of this strange dark place. I hear explosions and all sorts of mass destruction, and citizens screaming for help. I feel I am having way to much fun with this video game, and as I look to the right, I see the amazing circle, though it is not alone. It is being held captive by the evil man who only gave me a crumb. He is holding it above a fire and is about to burn it. I was not about to let that happen so I swoop down and lay the contraption to the ground and open it up, as I open it up, I smell nothing but fumes, gases, and smoke, I then see the man is approaching me. He begins charging after me, and I did not trust this man, so I closed it down and pulled my weapon upon him. He then throws it up in the air, I once more, open the contraption with once again my lungs filling up with the terrible smell from explosion and look up to see the I am not just any ordinary bird; I am a pigeon, and I am on a mission. I am on a mission to seek a circular shape with a hole in the middle. I smell it being baked every morning as I glide through the wonderful air. I see people eating this beautiful treat all the time, oh what I wouldn't do to have something as amazing as that. I look to my left, and I see a man with a brief case eating one. I quietly swoop down to meet his gaze; his eyes wander over to me, and I return the gaze at the circular object he holds in his hand. He tosses me a crumb; I reject it. I am not about to be eating crumbs when I want something I get it all. The man looked at me as if I was ungrateful I figured he was not getting the right message, I then move on top of a shiny rectangular thing that was warm on my feet and look at him. I hear a SLAM and am in a dark place with all sorts of weird buttons. I look at my surrounds and begin poking things with my beak as if I can find a way out. I then find that it is very fun to poke all of these buttons, I am not in a dark place. I am playing a video game; I begin pressing buttons to see what does what and to my surprise. I touch a button with the bottom of my beak and off, I go in the air. This is by far the best video game I have ever played and my what amazing graphics it has! I begin blowing up cars smelling the fumes coming through the small cracks of this strange dark place. I hear explosions and all sorts of mass destruction, and citizens screaming for help. I feel I am having way to much fun with this video game, and as I look to the right, I see the amazing circle, though it is not alone. It is being held captive by the evil man who only gave me a crumb. He is holding it above a fire and is about to burn it. I was not about to let that happen so I swoop down and lay the contraption to the ground and open it up, as I open it up, I smell nothing but fumes, gases, and smoke, I then see the man is approaching me. He begins charging after me, and I did not trust this man, so I closed it down and pulled my weapon upon him. He then throws it up in the air, I once more, open the contraption with once again my lungs filling up with the terrible smell from explosion and look up to see the round object in the air. The man charges at me, and before I can react, he swats me out of the contraption and the disc-shaped object lands on a huge button, and I see a thing fly up into the sky. The man takes up after the rocket and holds my lovely treat captive. It was later that I realized this was not a game; this was war. I fly up after him, which did not take much, he was not going that fast I subsequently swoop into his side and perch up in front of a weird object in the middle of my head. I look at him and challenge him, and he peers back into my eyes, I then realized he was probably going to kill me, but to my surprise, he released the lovely circular object, and it falls down like an astroid through the sky. I dive after it, the wind rushing in my face and when I reach the bottom. I finally get to eat this lovely treat; it tasted just how I'd imagined it, sweet and savory with a bread-like texture. The man swooped down not long after, gave me a look, put on black shades and walked off. I shrugged it off and went back to eating with this lovely texture developing in my mouth, a bit tough, but it was totally worth it. I hear something rushing down from the sky, and as I look up all I see is something white coming down at me. I have no time to react and at the end of it all; I was crushed. My sight began to fade; the sounds from the city began to just be a murmur, and then it all went black. object in the air. The man charges at me, and before I can react, he swats me out of the contraption and the disc-shaped object lands on a huge button, and I see a thing fly up into the sky. The man takes up after the rocket and holds my lovely treat captive. It was later that I realized this was not a game; this was war. I fly up after him, which did not take much, he was not going that fast I subsequently swoop into his side and perch up in front of a weird object in the middle of my head. I look at him and challenge him, and he peers back into my eyes, I then realized he was probably going to kill me, but to my surprise, he released the lovely circular object, and it falls down like an astroid through the sky. I dive after it, the wind rushing in my face and when I reach the bottom. I finally get to eat this lovely treat; it tasted just how I'd imagined it, sweet and savory with a bread-like texture. The man swooped down not long after, gave me a look, put on black shades and walked off. I shrugged it off and went back to eating with this lovely texture developing in my mouth, a bit tough, but it was totally worth it. I hear something rushing down from the sky, and as I look up all I see is something white coming down at me. I have no time to react and at the end of it all; I was crushed. My sight began to fade; the sounds from the city began to just be a murmur, and then it all went black.

I have always believed that the sky is so pretty because a lot of the time you never see the same thing twice with the sky, it's always different.  The picture I have picked out is the sun beaming down with clouds surrounding it.  I have always thought that it's just awesome how the clouds cover up the sun a little bit and the rays beam out like a disco ball.  The sun reflects down on the water and shows it's true colors.  The only thing I dislike about pictures are a lot of them are just photoshopped so they can get more likes... I can see changing filters but when you take a picture of the sky and you just make marks on it and try to make it look real it's sad because your taking true beauty and turning it into that.  Sometimes it's cool looking but the sky is a part of nature that really shouldn't be tampered with in my opinion.  I always remember laying down outside on the trampoline and looking up at the sky, I would always try to see different things as I'd stare up at the clouds.  The sky is so remarkable and I think people still enjoy it because not a whole lot has been discovered about it.  I have always wondered how far up the sky really is, or if there really is a sky.  I don't know if anybody's ever seen the Trueman Show but it's about a man who is put into a utopian society for everyone to watch and surrounded by actors.  He has no idea that he isn't living in real life until he starts putting together the pieces.  He ended up finding that the sky was just a wall paper that looked like a sky.  For all we know our government could be photoshopping pictures of moons and everything could be completely fake but it was in order to perform a perfect society, the government can hide whatever they want from us and we just have to take that how it is.  The sky is just one of those things that I keep on questioning about.  With everything put to the side though, the sky is an amazing part of nature and it comforts many out in this world.  Many people go out on dates to watch the sunset or watch the eclipse, it's whatever they want it to be and nobody else.  The sky is a remarkable thing and I feel that people should appreciate it a lot more than what they do.  Rather than going out and filling our environment with nasty gases we get to breathe in all day people could car pool, recycle and pick up there trash so that we can keep beauty within our world. 

The bunny cake has been in my family for who knows how long.  My grandma Joan made it a lot and the bunny cake was my very first birthday cake.  My grandma past away before I got into cooking and so I never really got a chance to ask how it was figured out.  My mom was taught how to do a bunny cake and about 6 years ago she taught me how to make it.  Making the bunny cake was pretty easy because you pretty much bake it, shape it and then decorate it however you want.  I always loved this cake because it has such a variety in what you can do with it.  I like that you can decide how to design it and every one of them is different in their own way because it's personalized.  When I make the cake I come out and say alright what shall our bunny be this year?  Usually everyone always says something different and there can be as many colors as you like.  This past weekend for instance I asked and my sister said she wanted purple and my mom said blue.  I decided to do a purple bunny with a blue bow-tie and green in the middle of his ears.  I also like that you can use as many different types of candy.  I actually did something new with the left-over frosting rather than just letting it go to waste I put mnm's inside of it and coated them with frosting and it was like sugar rush from heck but it was delicious and the majority of the frosting was ate.We usually do box cake mixes because it takes a lot less time to make and it's a lot cheaper than going out and buying flour, sugar, salt, vanilla, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and all of those ingredients.  I mean the box cake mixes are like a dollar whereas just for the flour it's like three dollars for a small bag of it.  When making the cake of course you preheat your oven to 350, that's what the majority of cakes call for.  While your two circle cakes are baking you can be making your icing, ours is kind of like a marshmellow texture and it's super creamy.  We just do a vanilla icing stick it in a bowl and then start separating the amount of icing needed in each bowl, for the head and ears is where you need the most frosting at so of course the majority of it stays there and gets colored whatever color you choose, you only need a tiny bit for the inside of it's ears and you double the amount you used for the inside of it's ears for the bow-tie.  After you frost your bunny you take whatever candies you want on it and start decorating the bunny.  This is where your creativity comes in, we usually use mnm's and twizzlers for our bunnies but it could be whatever you prefer.  Not every bunny will  be exactly the same I mean we have had bunnies who just have a split head and it's really funny because we make jokes about how we are fixing the bunnies brain.  When your cutting the bunny it sounds terrible because you ask what part they'd like and they respond back with can I have a piece of his ear?  To me I just find it hysterical because it sounds like we are eating a human or something but that's just me.

I will never mix pixi sticks and monster together ever again...  Meghan and I ended up going into a massive sugar high and started giggling and laughing and doing all sorts of crazy things.  We were hanging out with our friend Frosty and went to wal-mart for more candy, on our way out of wal-mart I spotted one of those huge concrete pole covers in the middle of the parking lot and I was like OH MY GOD THAT WOULD BE AN AWESOME WAY TO REMEMBER THE NIGHT! Meghan never really listened to the things that I'd say we do because I'm the friend with the crazy idras NOBODY should take seriously, the poor thing wasn't thinking right due to all the sugar and after I said it she goes LET'S DO IT and we both jumped out of the moving car and bolted for the big cone thing we got it and we were running back to the van when we seen Frosty driving away from us and we were like OH MY GOD and started screaming at her to come back and we realized she wasn't going to come back for us so we threw the cone thing above our heads and ran for the car and when we were running down the hill my ankle twisted due to a little patch of dirt and grass taken out and it hurt really really bad and we got in the car and my foot hurt so bad it was hard to walk and Frosty acted like a mommy and was like you guys know better than that meah meah meah meah meah and started nagging at us and then we were like Aww... :( We will never do that again...
OR WILL WE!? >:) you never know what to expect out of us, especially when you hand us the sugar.  We get pretty crazy when you mix a bunch of sugar with us being around each other.... Another time we got all sugar high we ended up in a food coloring fight and had it all over the place.. I WILL TOTALLY DO THAT AGAIN, it was so much fun.  We always have the funnest memories because of sugar, if you ask me sugar is the most amazing thing in the world.  Especially when you mix the two of us into it... You should see us on Halloween we take little kids trick or treating and we get candy as well maybe that's why people have been popping out so many kids here recently, they want a reason to go trick or treating again.  All to the side though I feel that we should never do pixi sticks and monster ever again. :)

There is a girl who I see going to the beach every day and she always sprays in the stuff to put highlights in your hair, The sun reflected off of her hair and her hair reflected the light sand that lied beneath my feet, squishing in between my toes.  I always thought that the color of her hair was so pretty, Her hair color changed from dark to light due to the sun though and it became as light as can be, it was almost as light as a lot of the new born babies who don't end up with the dark hair.  Sometimes the sun would reflect off her hair due to how light it was and beam into my eyes.  Her hair was the color that a brownie is when you don't put in cocoa.

The little boy trod ding about, stamping his feet down with tears running down his face.  He is screaming at his mom because he wants a candy bar which he cannot have because he wasn't behaving in the store.  The little boy began screaming at the top of his lungs making a scene for everyone to see and hear.  The mother, embarrassed tells the boy to tone it down in which he didn't listen.  He begins screaming even louder and everyone begins to look at the mother as if she had done something wrong.  The mother looks forward and sees the line still has two people ahead of her and shakes her head.  She is unsure what to do because if he gets his way he will always do this but if he doesn't get his way he is going to scream the whole time.  The mother looks at the child and says "I told you if you did not listen to me and behave in the store you would not get any candy so you will have none."  The boy begins to get red-faced and screams and starts hitting his mother.
You have to of course make your cake mix which can be any flavor that you choose, you need to pick out your color scheme, and what you want it to be topped with.  We have always done our cakes in really light colors and so after you have all that figured out you make two circle cakes and while they are being baked you can begin making your frosting.  We have a marshmellowy frosting that we use. it's basic ingredients like corn syrup, sugar, cream of tartar and that's pretty much it unless you want to add in a specific flavoring, we like using vanilla.  After you make your frosting and the cakes you start trimming your cake down however you want.  We have always used a bunny with two ears and a little bow-tie.  They are extremely cute and fun to make.  After you trim it down you then put on your frosting with whatever color scheme you chose.  This weekend I did a purple bunny, green inside the ears and a blue bow-tie.  After you finish frosting it you get out your candy and let your creativity come into play.  We have always done mnm's on the bow-tie and we usually use them for the eyes and the nose.  We usually use twizzlers as the mouth but this weekend I tried it out with mnm's.  I love these cakes because really you can do anything you want with it.  You can do any type of cake, any frosting and any types of candy.  These cakes are really fun to do especially around Easter and I've started seeing if  people would be interested in buying them.  With my family we have a cat who enjoys sitting on the cakes that I make so we have to put it in some kind of box so we can close it up without messing up the frosting.  I of course use duct tape so that I can tape down the parchment paper so that it's not on cardboard.  All bunnies have different designs and I've seen some with little notches on their foreheads so that's what I did to mine this time because I really like the mnm's on the cake because it's just amazing.  Down below this is the cake that I made this weekend.  It's kind of hard making it with mnm's sometimes because they like to fall out of your hand and onto the cake and if your doing a specific order then it can mess it up and you have to pick it off and then it leaves a little spot of no frosting.