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Upper Canada Womens Rights
1,134 wordsThe article In Roughing it With the Moodie's is an explanatory essay on the life of female author Susanna Moodie and her family. Most of her life was spent I he backwoods of Ontario with her family. Susanna Moodie was born in England. She was born into a wealthy family and was the youngest of five children. She received a good education, more so than any of the other girls of her social standing. While in England she published a variety of poems and childrens stories. She married J. W. Dunbar, a...
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One Week Deer Stand
714 wordsThis past fall I was presented with the opportunity to go deer hunting in the Upper Peninsula, something I never done before. Since I was to be living here for the next eight months, I figured that I may as well take advantage of my situation, get out into the wilds and person one of my favorite game animals, the cunning By the middle of September I figured that I had better get busy and find a place to hunt as the season was rapidly approaching. After several failed scouting attempts and uneven...
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Environmental Protection Agency Reagan Administration
1,255 words... rational policy. President Bush's loopholes in the 1990 Clean Air Act were by no means the beginning of weakened laws to help further business. After President Carter introduced tougher toxic dumping regulations for corporations, there was a huge increase in illegal midnight dumpings. Soon, exporting toxic waste to the Third World became a sudden growth industry. While it is true that the Carter administration vetoed these kinds of exports for toxic garbage, the ban was soon withdrawn by the...
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Lake Champlain Square Kilometers
1,879 wordsVermont has been called a piece of America's past. In no other state has natural beauty been so untouched by modern development. In no other state has the small-town atmosphere of more than a century ago been so well preserved. Often chosen as a comfortable second home by city dwellers, Vermont seemingly has escaped the ugly urban sprawl that pollutes so many parts of the nation. The state has long been noted for its hardy, independent people. Their rugged New England character was probably orda...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Ice Hockey
1,259 words... the building of dams. One species of beaver occurs in North America, the other in Eurasia. The two species differ chiefly in the shape of the nasal bones and are so much alike that some authorities consider them to be varieties of the same species. They are large rodents; the average adult beaver weighs about 16 kg (about 35 lb), but specimens as heavy as 40 kg (90 lb) have been found, and some extinct beavers were almost bearlike in size. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975). Beavers have long ...
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Prime Minister British Empire
1,041 wordsThroughout Canada in the 20 th Century, numerous events and decisions have formed defining moments for the people of this country. Events like View Ridge, the formation of NATO, and the development of the new flag have made a huge impact on the country. In addition, the leadership of people like Lester B. Pearson and, much earlier, Sir Wilfred Laurier, has created very significant changes in the course of Canadas history. Of these, the new flag, sometimes referred to as the maple leaf is not onl...
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Ecology The Study Of Plans Animals And Environment
1,134 wordsEcology is the scientific study of the interrelationships of plants, animals, and the environment. In recent years, the word has sometimes been misused as a synonym for environment. The principles of ecology are useful in many aspects of the related fields of conservation, wildlife management, forestry, agriculture, and pollution control. The word ecology (Greek, oikos, "house, " and logos, "study of") is generally believed to have been coined by Ernst HAECKEL, who used and defined it in 1869. T...
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South Side North Side
3,449 wordsThe experiments Damian Bluff Introduction The experiments that were carried out on Damian Bluff were to use plot method calculations, and quarter method calculations to find out what species of trees are in the area and how to characterize each tree. The plot method was used to produce an ecological importance value for each species. The quarter method is a type of pilotless methods. The trees were observed to find out what kind they were. The experiments were carried out on both the north and t...
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Anti Americanism National Pride
1,422 wordsActually, this isnt true for me, as I was born in Southfield Michigan, on the tenth day of September in 1983, and I have an American birth certificate. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, I AM... (cough cough) American, but being proud to live in this great country, and having been brought up as a true, red-blooded Canadian gal, I am not so quick to admit this minor detail to the masses. So then what does it mean to be a Canadian, if you dont even have to be born in the country to make claim to the name? This...
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Daniel Jack
1,041 wordsJasper Newton Daniel was born in 1848 as the tenth child of thirteen. At the age of 12 Jack Daniel started a career that would last him a lifetime. He was hired out to work for a man by the name of Dan Call, a preacher at a Lutheran church. At Mr. Call? s distillery he learned the trait of making whiskey. Three years later he and Mr. Call were full partners in the whiskey making business. Mr. Call was a dedicated Lutheran. Just after the civil war his family and church told him to make a decisio...
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University Of Toronto Prime Minister
1,282 wordsLester Lester Pearson Lester Pearson Lester B. Pearson lived from 1897 - 1972. He was born on April 23 1897, in Newtonbrooke Ontario (now part of Toronto). He died on December 27 1972. He was born the son of a Methodist parson. As a child he worked very hard in school, and he became one of the minority of high school graduates who went on to college. In his studies he went to Victoria College and the Methodist College inside the University of Toronto. In his free time he played hockey and baseba...
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House Of Commons People Feel
1,139 wordsinto the home of the largest free-standing structure in the world. Canada, (a great tourist attraction) is also home of the largest water fall in the world. Our farmland unlike a lot of others has a variety of climate. The warmer summer climate ranges from + 10 + 30 and the cooler climate ranges from anywhere to - 10 - 30. Despite the changes in temperature, Canadas precipitation is very light. Our home is enclosed by the United States of America, south, the Pacific ocean and Alaska on the west ...
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Young Men Long Ago
674 wordsMohegan Myths, Legends, Lore A brief Mohegan History The Mohegan tribe along with other Alonquian speaking Indians lived in the Thames valley in what is now Connecticut. The population was roughly 2, 200 strong. Their way of life was based on the cultivation of maize, hunting and fishing. The Mohegan and the Pequot were jointly ruled by the Pequot Chief Sassucus until a sub chief Units lead a rebellion that lead to Mohegan independence. The Pequot tribe was besieged and broken a part. The Mohega...
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East Facing Slope West Facing Slope Found
1,762 words5 th Hour Evaluation Trees Wes Gale 5 th Hour Evaluation of Relative Importance Values of the Tree Species Found in Three Different Habitats at Weldon Springs Wildlife Area by Calculating Importance Values Introduction: While on our field trip we hoped to evaluate three different forest habitats by calculating individual tree species importance values. We were at Weldon Springs Wildlife Area in St. Charles. We evaluated three different microhabitat's: Upland East Facing Slope, Upland West Facing...
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