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The Donner Party

By: Nicole Gaudet, Corrine Weatherby, and Tavia Rzasa. The Donner Party. The Donner Party.

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The Donner Party

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  1. By: Nicole Gaudet, Corrine Weatherby, and Tavia Rzasa The Donner Party

  2. The Donner Party The Donner Party was a group of 87 people that got together to travel across the country in 1846. This group is still remembered in U.S. history mainly because nearly half of the party died during the trip. At first, members of the group died from natural causes due to the weather, etc. but towards the end of their trip, they resorted to cannibalism…

  3. Metabolism Everyone’s metabolism has to be in a certain range in order to work correctly. The metabolic rate has to be in the middle; not too high and not too low. Age, weight, body mass, muscle, fat content, genetics, and height all affect the metabolic rate of a body.

  4. Deaths Of the 87 people who went on the Donner Party trip, 40 of them died. Out of those 40, 30 of them were men. There are many reasons that explain why so many more men died than women.

  5. Men-Women Ratio of Deaths

  6. BMR BMR stands for basal metabolic rate. BMR is the minimum amount of calories required to sustain life in an individual. Each person’s BMR had a lot to do with whether or not they survived. Basal metabolic rate is affected by age. As you grow older, your BMR drops 2 percent each decade. Men have a higher BMR than women do, because of their higher muscle mass and lower body fat.

  7. Why did more men die? In the Donner Party, 30 of the 40 deaths were men. Why is this? Throughout the course of their journey, there were not only natural deaths, but murders too. Men tend to be more violent than women, and some killed each other. For example, James Reed killed John Snyder. Also, men have less fat than women and more muscle. Because they have less fat, they are more prone to freeze, which some of them did. And also because of their higher BMR rate, they need to intake more food. However, there wasn’t any food, leaving most men to starve.

  8. Why did more children die? Aside from men dying, a majority of children died as well. 15 out of the 40 deaths were children 1-12 years old. Since children had a high body surface area, but did not weigh that much, they could not hold in their body heat. When they lost their body heat, they froze to death.

  9. Variables that impacted the trip • Cold weather • Harsh conditions • Malnutrition • Illnesses • No will power to live • BMR • Arguments that resulted in murders

  10. Would you have survived? If you wanted to go on the Donner Party trip and survive, you’d have the best chance if you were a woman of about 20-40 years of age, had a normal body weight, were a little shorter than normal, and were traveling with at least another person.

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