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Lewis And Clark Sierra Nevada
1,248 words... lt and slow going due to the fact that the river level had fallen significantly, and navigating it by boat was incredibly difficult. On October 15 th, he found Clark, and so began the expedition, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The expedition decided to spend that winter at Camp Wood, along the Missouri river in Present day Illinois. Throughout the next two years, the expedition made significant scientific discoveries, and mapped much of the Missouri river as well as much of the western half...
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3,025 wordsThe Sound of the Shell The opening chapter begins with two boys, Piggy and Ralph, making their way through the jungle. We learn, through their dialogue, that they had been travelling in an airplane with a group of British school children. The plane had presumably been shot down and crashed on a an island in the Pacific. It is hinted that the rest of the world is at war, and that most of it has been destroyed by nuclear attacks possibly explaining that the children were A storm has come and gone,...
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Feet Above Sea Level People Who Live
1,543 wordsThe Himalayas are the highest mountain system in the world. They consist of several parallel mountain ranges that extend in a 1, 500 mile curve across southern Asia from the Pamirs, west of the great bend of the Indus River, eastward to the great bend of the Brahmaputra River. Himalaya means the House of Snow, or Snowy Range. The Himalayas form a barrier that separates northern India from the plateau of Tibet, in China. In this report I will be covering the climate, topography, culture, religion...
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Mountain Snow Cold
697 wordsI was the first person to ski off of the chairlift that day, arriving at the summit of Whitetale Mountain. It was the type of day when the clouds seemed to blanket the sky, leaving no clue that the sun, with its powerful light, even existed anymore. It was not snowing, but judging by the damp, musty, stale scent in the air, I realized it would be only a short time before the white flakes overtook the mountain. As I readied myself to make the first run, I took a moment to appreciate my surroundin...
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Comparison Of Monet And Claude
1,720 wordsClaude's The Sermon on the Mount is a relatively large painting in a horizontal rectangular shape. It is a landscape painting with Jesus giving a sermon to a crowd of his followers as the subject. It states in the acoustic guide that Claude is trying to depict the landscape of Mount Tabor surrounded by the Dead Sea on the right and the Jordan River on the left. The painting is done from a high vantage point. One can see this because as the viewer looks at the painting he can see far into the dis...
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Temperature And Betula On The Holy Range Massachusetts
1,890 wordsTemperature and Betula distribution on the Holyoke Range, Massachusetts In this study, it will be tested whether temperature affects tree densities in the genus Betula on different slopes of the Holyoke Range, specifically the north and south faces of the mountain range. My prediction is that the north face of the mountain will have a higher density of these trees than the south face of the range because of the temperature differences of the north slope being warmer than south slope for the rang...
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Dragon Smaug Lonely Mountain
883 wordsThe Hobbit Bilbo Baggins lives a quiet, peaceful life in his comfortable hole at Bag End. Bilbo lives in a hole because he is a hobbiton of a race of small, plump people about half the size of humans, with furry toes and a great love of good food and drink. Bilbo is quite content at Bag End, near the bustling hobbit village of Hobbiton, but one day his comfort is shattered by the arrival of the old wizard Gandalf, who persuades Bilbo to set out on an adventure with a group of thirteen militant d...
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Washington D C Confederate Troops
1,449 wordsBoth the Union and Confederate armies used balloons for reconnaissance during the American Civil War, marking the first time that balloons were used in the United States for reconnaissance. The professional aeronaut John Wise was the first to receive orders to build a balloon for the Union army. However, the balloon never was used because it escaped its tethers and was shot down to prevent it from falling into Confederate hands. Thaddeus Lowe and John La Mountain both carried out reconnaissance ...
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James Baldwin Dead Father
3,020 wordsJames Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man & Go Tell it on the Mountain James Arthur Baldwin was born Aug. 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York City, and died in France on Nov. 30, 1987. He gave an important literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950 s and ' 60 s. His first education was that of a preacher, but then he exchanged it for literature. Critics, however, note the impassioned cadences of Black churches are still evident in his writing. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), his fi...
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19 Th Century Mont Blanc
2,180 wordsThe Alps is a Europe's finest natural export, birthplace of downhill skiing, progenitor of the winter wonderland. In 2001, time of cheap flights and last-minute holidays, mini-skis and man-made mountains, the survival of the Alps' heritage is, you might say, nearing the point of no return. Evolving from a chain of valleys with distinct dialogues at the end of the 19 th century to the spa villages of the early 20 th, then from the jet-set destinations of the post-war years to the maximum-capacity...
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The South During Civil War
2,503 wordsThe South during the Civil War South during the Civil War is a topic that has attracted a tremendous amount of historians. A lot of research has been done on this subject, and within the conceptual framework of this report we will elaborate on South during the Civil War. Certainly, one of the major points to be discussed here would be the differences between the North and the South, since because of those differences the Civil War actually started. We will elaborate on how exactly South was diff...
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Cold Mountain Civil War
1,223 wordsThis novel chronicles the long journey home of a Civil War soldier, Inman, to Cold Mountain in North Carolina. The story begins in a military hospital, and Inman's neck wound, a long difficult-to-heal horizontal slice received in battle, is drawing flies. Inman is a moral man, and the brutality and killing he has witnessed on the battlefield lead him to leave the hospital AWOL and journey secretively, by foot, back to Ada, his love. The trip is perilous; Inman is subject not only to the difficul...
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British Columbia Blue Eyes
2,357 wordsA generation of Canadian schoolchildren and university students has grown up knowing the story of a mountain climber who fell 50 feet to a narrow ledge, was badly injured, then pushed off the ledge to his death by his friend in an act of mercy. The climbers name was David, also the title of the story. Its author was Earle Birney. At one time or another in the last 25 years, David has been required reading for high schools and universities in every Canadian province. Mountains that are actually o...
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Paul Cezanne Painting Shows
380 wordsLa Montagne Sainte-Victoire Paul Cezanne 1887 Paul Cezanne created the painting La Montagne Sainte-Victoire in 1887. The painting consists of the actual mountain of Sainte-Victoire as the dominant feature of the landscape. Cezanne's hometown, Aix-en-Provence, is in front of the mountain. The painting begins with a view above the town looking in between two branches. The branch on the left side of the painting shows its base as you look on the left side of the painting. Cezanne had painted this s...
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Quot Quot Essay Quot
3,334 wordsOn of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre had been imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote his famous essay, " Le Myth de Sisyphus" or " The Myth of Sisyphus" . Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll...
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Conch Shell Piggy Glasses
5,219 wordsSynonyms/Antonyms One of the major themes of Lord of the Flies is evil. In the novel, evil involves fear, hatred, and ugliness. The following words, taken from the novel reflect that theme of evil. Each underlined word below is followed by a definition, a synonym, and a page (p. ) and line (l. ) number. Read the definition and the synonym, then refer in the novel to the page and line on which the word appears. Read the definition and the synonym, then refer in the novel to the page and line on w...
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R 038 D Vertical Integration
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Mother And Father Jon Krakauer
2,882 wordsAlthough Mount Everest had defied human attempts to conquer it for more than a century, although one person had died for every four who made it to the top, the worlds loftiest mountain had, in recent years, come to seem more accessible, even tame: in 1993, 40 climbers reached the summit on one day alone. As the journalist Jon Krakauer notes in his gripping new book (Into Thin Air), Rob Hall, the leader of the Adventure Consultants expedition, bragged that he could get almost any reasonably fit p...
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Miles Per Hour Earths Crust
3,134 wordsMount St. Helens Location: Washington, United States Latitude: 46. 20 N Longitude: 122. 18 W height: 2, 549 meters or 8, 364 feet 9, 677 feet before May 18, 1980 Type: Strato volcano Number of eruptions in past 200 years: 2 - 3 Latest Eruptions: Between 1660 - 1700, around 1800 - 1802, 1831, 1835, 1842 - 1844, 1847 - 1854, 1857, 1980 -? Present thermal activity: strong steaming Nickname: Mount Fuji of the West Remarks: continuous intermittent activity since 1980 with occasional eruptions of stea...
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Achieve This Goal Lewis And Clark
2,426 wordsBy the late 1700 s, the young United States began to look westward and dream about the possibilities it presented. They wondered if there was in fact an all water route from the Mississippi to the Pacific, what the whole continent actually looked like, and really, what was out there. There were many individual and groups of people that helped pave an opening for the eventual settlement of the American west. Two of the most recognizable and important groups that opened up the west were the Lewis ...
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