North Pole

to the North Pole. However, after failing his mission, as Robert Peary had beat him, he began racing for “...the most prestigious prize the world of exploration still offered: the South Pole” (Alexander). With this, he gathered his men and headed out for one of the most obscure areas of the world—preparing to enter a whole new world. And after suffering through many hardships and complications on his adventure, Amundsen finally achieved his goal of being the first to reach the South Pole. Thus,

Thanksgiving of 2008. The eight inch, red suited, stuffed elf spied on our every move. Once we would fall asleep, Buddy would use his magic to fly back to the North Pole to report our behavior to Santa. The elf came with one strict rule though, if he was ever touched by a human hand he would lose all magic and not be able to venture back to the North Pole. Therefore, nobody touched Buddy and everyone enjoyed his presence in the household. There was one exception though, my sister, Liz. The elf creeped her

Last Christmas up at the North Pole, five before Christmas, everyone was busy trying to get ready. Charlie was getting all of the elves in line finishing up the decorations and rehearsing. He was the head the elf’s assistant. He was talking to Ginger when Peppermint busted in the workshop with three reindeer. “The toys are missing and the sleigh is broken!” exclaimed Peppermint. Charlie went with the elves and talked to Santa. “What if use one of the iPhones to find the toys?” asked Ginger. “Thats

Many ancient civilizations had their own beliefs about the stars and the universe. Some examples of these intelligent civilizations were the Ancient Babylonians, Middle Eastern civilizations, Central American civilizations, Ancient Chinese, and the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Babylonians studied patterns on Venus which were later continued by Galileo and Copernicus. People from the Middle East, Central America, and China watched the skies and made many observations and predictions of movement in

On Christmas eve the elves were all wrapping presents and Santa was looking over all the bad kids and good kids, also his son mike was watching the elves. They were pretty busy because Santa was behind on Christmas chores. When all of a sudden . . . The Alarm goes of in the present area. Quickly Santa calls Mike to get down to the Present area. Santa and Mike find that they have some bad elves. The elves commanded Santa to give them the secret password to get into the secret door, but Santa

Chris Von Allsburg. Chris Von Allsburg writes and illustrates all of his books and won the Caldecott medal for The Polar Express. The Polar Express is a Christmas story of getting a kid to believe in Santa. The boy climbs aboard a train to go to the North Pole to see Santa. He is the one chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas, which was a silver bell off of the reindeers. He cannot hear it at first, but then he finally lets himself believe in Santa and can hear the bell for the rest of his life

metaphors to help the reader gain extra knowledge about both of her main characters, Victor Frankenstein and the Monster. From the opening landscape, the reader begins to get the feeling that this will be an interesting story. A man found wandering the North Pole, who the reader later learns is Victor Frankenstein, suffers through sub-freezing temperatures, intense winds, lack of adequate food and water, and an exhausting lack of

(P1) In Aria Beth Sloss’ short story, “North, the narrative is told from the perspective of a child as he/she talks about his/her parents. The narrator opens the piece by telling the reader that his/her father, Thomas, was an explorer who left for an expedition and “was never heard from again” (Sloss 2). The narrative then continues into a description of the relationship between the father and mother. The mother, Mary, was considered a “wild woman” (Sloss 5) growing up. Her family had concerns that

the last five decades one of the most noticeable facts is that the temperature raised to 1.4 degree F (0.8 degree Celsius) the effects of this warming changes are notice worldwide the most alarming fact is the melting of the sea ice on the north pole, and south pole since 1870 to now the sea levels rise around 8 inches jeopardizing places like New York, Florida and New Orleans, they could go under sea levels this change in temperatures also affect

one of the most important jobs, she made Santa’s cookies every day. On December 25th every year there was a big Ball and everyone who lived in the North Pole was invited. At this ball there was dancing, a giant feast, and Todd’s favorite, the baking contest. This year Todd wanted to win because if you win you get named the best baker in the North Pole. Also, Todd secretly loved to bake so he went to Joan for advice about what to make. Joan looked for what seemed like hours to Todd.